The GOP Plan: Let billionaires cheat on their taxes or we will blow up the economy https://t.co/LV4uHjjaYJ
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) March 10, 2023
Category: Austerity Porn
How they think
.@StephanieKelton told me this story about when she was on the Budget Committee:https://t.co/gYPPWyxAIp pic.twitter.com/3EphOVTgsc
— David Dayen (@ddayen) March 2, 2023
Piece of work
Hope it was worth the money. https://t.co/0WwTVDztPx
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) February 2, 2023
Just what people wanted
Among the budget cuts that Republicans have been talking about are work requirements for SNAP, a phaseout of HUD Section 8 grants, a Medicaid freeze, gutting the funding of the CDC and scaling back disability benefits for veterans. https://t.co/m0GAx0YV9b
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) February 1, 2023
Unemployment blues
The last time I was on unemployment, it was through Nj. It took DAYS to get through, it was insane. It’s just as bad in NY and PA:
NJ taxpayers spent tens of millions for help answering phone calls from unemployment claimants during the pandemic. And some applicants are expressing a familiar frustration: the inability to reach a human being on the phone at the Dept. of Labor. https://t.co/UlIE0MeO7i
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) January 18, 2023
See what he left out?
That’s over 30 years:
Biden’s plan to wipe out significant amounts of student loan debt for tens of millions of borrowers could cost about $400 billion, the nonpartisan CBO reports, renewing the debate over his decision. @katierogers https://t.co/0flmC5O0bN
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 26, 2022
Everything’s smaller in Texas
Whenever people tell me they want to move to a state “because their taxes are so low,” they mean other people are treated badly so their taxes remain low — whether they realize it or not:
Retired Texas teachers, denied cost-of-living raises since 2004, get even smaller checks in 2022 https://t.co/jugnsX4atf
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) March 8, 2022
This would be good
But Manchin always gives with one hand and takes with the other. What does he want in return?
Manchin Wants to Boost Social Security Taxes https://t.co/WrCHHseOvx via @politicalwire
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) February 10, 2022
Baby, I promise this time will be different
SCOOP from @JonLemire
Biden and Manchin spoke. Sense is talks can/will continue around BBBhttps://t.co/Ofd3nyq4Ni
— Sam Stein (@samstein) December 20, 2021
Swell
Goldman Sachs cuts US economic forecast after Joe Manchin rejects Build Back Better https://t.co/JGFhqb1zZu
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) December 20, 2021