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Published: June 19, 2025 15:14

A technical but politically important point: Republicans can use reconciliation to increase the debt limit by a particular amount but not to suspend it. So they really will have to vote for a collosal number unless they are willing to scrap their savage…

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Published: June 18, 2025 14:13

When Trump is ramming through Congress an extreme fiscal stimulus, he can hardly expect the Fed to pursue monetary stimulus. If he wants lower interest rates, dump OBBB. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 18, 2025 06:35

Extremely clear, smart and helpful 🧵 (as usual from Pettis) on what the kernel of sense is in supply-side economics' fondness for income inequality but showing why it is exactly backwards in our current situation. If we want growth, we should pass a second…

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Published: June 15, 2025 14:12

My latest on the monumental reconciliation bill gliding through a Congress that seems to have abandoned independent judgment. It will both remake the country and profoundly change the way Congress functions for the indefinite future.…

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Published: June 14, 2025 14:58

My latest on GOP efforts to smuggle extraneous (and bad) social policy into their already ghastly reconciliation bill against Senate rules.

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Published: June 11, 2025 15:12

A step-by-step guide to becoming an effective and credible deficit hawk: 1. Do not vote for legislation that blows up the deficit when the economy is already strong. Actually, that's it. Remarkably easy when you think about it.

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Published: June 11, 2025 14:46

To the surprise of nobody who is paying the slightest bit of attention, the "principled deficit hawks" turn out to be feckless gnats. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 8, 2025 13:37

Repressive forces love to accuse others of what they themselves are doing. The baseless accusations of moles fomenting violence on J6 should warn progressives to beware of anyone encouraging violence. We need to reach Americans' hearts. Violence cannot do…

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Published: June 4, 2025 16:17

My latest explainer on the political and procedural status of the Trump budget reconciliation bill. https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/06/trumps-reconciliation-bill-goes-to.html?m=1

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Published: June 1, 2025 12:22

Excellent 🧵 about the very real rise in deadly antisemitism in this country (and by Trump allies such as Putin). We should call out both antisemitism and the Administration's corrupt exploitation of antisemitism as an excuse to stifle dissent. Antisemitism…

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Published: June 1, 2025 12:08

Inducing someone to make a deal depends on persuading them that the world with a deal is better than the world without. Trump shows everyone that it is chaos without a deal but also chaos with one. No wonder all he can get is sham deals.

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Published: May 31, 2025 17:06

Valuable 🧵 about an episode in Russia's domination of Kazakhstan bearing striking resemblance to what it was doing to Ukrainians at the same time. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 31, 2025 11:42

Within living memory, both parties used the ABA to get judicial nominees. Now apparently even the Fed Soc shows too little fealty to the King. [contains quote post or other embedded content]