NOW we know who The Can Kicks Back reached
That is admittedly a deep cut so here's @dceiver to 'splain huffpost.com/entry/the-can-…
@dceiver This wasn't an off-handed comment either.
@dceiver That's Pete's team lifting up the Progressive Policy Institute, and here they are lifting up the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. It sounds like 2 separate analyses, but they're both part of the Peterson deficit hawk empire, so really it's 1
@dceiver PPI is the "radically pragmatic" (their words) think tank of the DLC/New Dems, which has been consistently wrong about its budget scaremongering. Interest rates haven't soared, inflation hasn't gone nuts. These are liars who use big-sounding numbers to prevent progress.
@dceiver Here's the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget supporting Trump's proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare. This is the organization Team Pete is relying on for fiscal analysis crfb.org/blogs/does-pre…
@dceiver In fact, CRFB has consistently groused that Trump's budget doesn't cut Social Security and Medicare enough latimes.com/business/hiltz…
