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Greg Sargent Profile picture
@GregTSargent
Aug 19, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Trump's scam is failing him.

* Trump publicly says recession talk is a conspiracy

* But privately, Trump fears economy could hurt his reelection

* To top it all off, Trump laughably claims his tax cut is making ordinary US consumers "rich"

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
It's not sufficiently appreciated that *both* sides of Trump's economic agenda -- the nationalist trade policies *and* the plutocratic tax cut -- are failing and unpopular.

With an assist from @Neil_Irwin:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@Neil_Irwin I don't understand why we keep ascribing magical political powers to Trump, every time he rolls out some crazy new conspiracy theory.

The better explanation is that he senses he's on the verge of losing control and is panicking about it:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@Neil_Irwin I don't get why Dems aren't jumping on this new Trump quote.

Farmers are reeling from Trump's trade war. A recession threatens.

And his response is that everything is just fine, because his massive corporate tax cut is making ordinary consumers "rich":

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

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Greg Sargent Profile picture
Feb 22
Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico.

Yet GOP is about to slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts!

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/191841…
Trump's pollster found that in 18 swing House districts, 68% are unhappy about their financial situation. Majorities want ACA's expanded subsidies to continue and oppose corporate tax cuts.

Swing voters want the opposite of what Trump/Rs are set to do.

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Next week, House Republicans will vote on a blueprint that could lead to $880 billion in Medicaid cuts, big cuts to spending on food stamps, and more big tax cuts for rich/corporations.

Trump's own pollster finds broad opposition to these priorities.

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Greg Sargent Profile picture
Feb 19
Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias.

This cause was once championed by *Republicans.*

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/191702…
These firings just hit the Roy Blunt Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias. Yes, you read that right. It's named after a GOP Senator.

Yesterday afternoon employees were informed of layoffs, including its highly-regarded incoming director. Details:

newrepublic.com/article/191702…Image
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Republicans like Roy Blunt, Tom Cole, and Susan Collins have all powerfully championed public spending to combat Alzheimer's. NIH's center on this is named after Roy Blunt. Cole spoke at its opening.

Will any Rs step up and voice these sentiments now?

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Feb 15
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in aid to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.

Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/191578…
Given this memo ordering USAID employees not to talk to the press, also recall that Trump fired USAID's IG for revealing that the freezes put $500 million in food aid at risk of spoiling.

Dem strategists warning against talking about this are wrong.

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Trumpworld seems split on what they can get away with. For Tom Homan to "joke" on national TV about prosecuting Eric Adams if he displeases Trump on immigration while Fox sycophants giggle is someone who thinks he can get away with anything.

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Feb 8
In December, NYT revealed that Elon Musk and SpaceX were failing to meet govt reporting protocol designed to protect state secrets while they haul in billions in Pentagon contracts.

This triggered three reviews, per NYT. One was from the Defense Department inspector general. 1/
It's time to ask: What's going on with those reviews into Musk/SpaceX's failure to meet basic reporting protocol linked to their billions in Pentagon contracts?

Dems tell me they fear these investigations might get killed under Trump. 2/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/191330…
When Trump fired all those inspector generals, one of them was the IG for the Defense Department. He was examining whether Musk/ SpaceX were failing to meet reporting protocol to safeguard state secrets as huge beneficiaries of Pentagon contracts. 3/

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Feb 6
It gets worse: Trump's Treasury Dept has a new letter spinning Musk's access to payment data as a mere "audit" that expands on work done during Biden admin. It's a sham. The letter simply ignores the biggest Qs about this scandal.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/191191…
For instance, if Musk's access expands on a review started under Biden, why did Treasury Sec Bessent allow a member of DOGE to oversee it, rather than a career official?

Plus, Sen Wyden tells me former officials are unaware of any previous audit:

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The most senior career official at Treasury was purged after protesting the access that DOGE officials had secured. Why would that have happened if this were an innocent expansion of a previous process?

And here are some other unanswered questions:

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Jan 31
The awful news that Elon Musk clashed w/top Treasury official in an effort to access govt payment systems raises a crucial question: Did Trump authorize this, or not?

I talked to former officials who explain why this is a key Q, and why it's so alarming:
newrepublic.com/article/191014…
I spoke to former Treasury and OMB officials, and they said Elon Musk accessing government payment systems could give him the power to selectively turn off payments. They described what this really means in very clarifying terms. See below:

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We really need to know if Trump directly authorized Musk to pursue access to Treasury's payment systems. Either answer is bad, in a different way:

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