Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
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Slow Boring, cohosting https://t.co/wxUj3JFSFf, Bloomberg columnist
Washington, DC
Joined July 2008
RT @ArnabDatta321: 🚨 Calling transit policy experts: @IFP is seeking actionable, technically sound ideas to reform federal transit policy.….
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RT @zacharywefel: I just called @tomemmer’s to encourage him to vote against the OBBB. No matter who your rep is, call to encourage them t….
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How come free IVF didn’t make it into the GOP budget bill?.
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The only cure for dogshit legislation, ultimately, is to win more elections.
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RT @JStein_WaPo: One thing that’s genuinely novel to me about this tax bill is that at least three major models have “dynamic” scoring esti….
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RT @TahraHoops: Jeffries talked about the millions losing their healthcare and that turned it into a yes for them?.
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It's really striking how much more integrity and clear-sightedness the very conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page has mustered compared to a lot of law firms, entertainment conglomerates, and tech companies.
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How you know they know that this has nothing to do with getting more people into jobs
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RT @besttrousers: 95% of people who lost coverage when Arkansas instituted "work requirements" had jobs. You have to look at what policies….
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Anything to raise awareness here is good.
Aaaaaand we've officially hit the three-hour mark for Jeffries' magic minute speech. Unclear how long he plans to go. .
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RT @CalltoActivism: 🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Democrat Rep. Greg Casar just confronted Republican Rep. Gabe Evans in the Capitol rotunda - after Eva….
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Beyond the specifics of the bill, health care is an enduringly good topic for Democrats because this is really *the* issue where the public shares progressives’ big moral premise.
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They’re eager to get this vote done before whatever Trump learned this afternoon becomes public tomorrow.
No-one knows what anything means anymore, but. Trump called for the resignation of Fed Chair Jay Powell around the time you might expect his staff to have shown him a preview of tomorrow's jobs numbers. It would be illegal and unethical to even hint at such confidential info,
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You know this legislation is a real stinker because only do they keep ignoring the bill’s major provisions in their messaging in favor of some relatively minor gimmicks, Republicans keep touting a Social Security provision that isn’t in the bill at all!
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Here he is in 2017 explaining the exact con that he is now running.
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Vice President @JDVance wants you to exclusively focus on this one teeny tiny bar in the chart, while dismissing a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid as immaterial and a $212 billion tax break for heirs to multi million dollar fortunes as minutia. He thinks his voters are stupid.
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RT @brianschatz: @D_Summerville Consider the possibility that the best use of both of our time is to trash this bill right now. Your point….
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