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7 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
45% of Republicans approve of the storming of the Capitol building. today.yougov.com/topics/politic… Image
Also, a majority of Republicans blame *Joe Biden* for the storming of the Capitol Image
Also also, Republican survey respondents said these were protestors and patriots, not criminals or domestic terrorists Image
Got that? Per Republicans, the storming of the Capitol was good and right and done by patriots, but also was somehow that guy Joe Biden's fault

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Catherine Rampell Profile picture
7 Jan
Where is the "personal responsibility" we've so often heard Republicans prattle on about?
People like Hawley aided and abetted this president. They helped brain-poison the GOP base, lying to them about election conspiracies. They fomented this armed insurrection. Own it.
Seriously. For today's seditious acts, egged on by Trump + GOP leadership, Ted Cruz bizarrely blames Beto O'Rouke. Sarah Palin & Fox anchors blame Antifa. Republican survey respondents blame Joe Biden.
TAKE SOME DAMN RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE.
Trump told us, and you, that he'd do this. He literally said "there won’t be a transfer" of power. He said only way he could lose would be if election were rigged against him.
Republicans asked about these comments often refused to directly condemn them. washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
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28 Dec 20
Arguably the bigger problem is that a lot of recipients *wouldn't* spend the money (whether at Wal-Mart or elsewhere) -- savings for high-income households, many of whom would qualify for some amount of stimulus aid, are already way up. Stim check likely to get saved by them too
The households with a greater marginal propensity to consume are the lower-income ones that suffered an employment loss. Targeting aid to them (through UI, food stamps, direct checks) is not only more humanitarian/fairer; it's also likely to have bigger bang for stimulus buck
Based on the phaseout provisions in the House bill that increases max stimulus payments to $2000/person, a family of five earning up to $350k would get cut a check, per @BudgetHawks. crfb.org/blogs/how-much…
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21 Dec 20
Horses that reportedly got traded today: Repubs demanded tax break for corporate meal expenses ("three martini lunches"). Dems agreed, in exchange for expanded tax credits for low income families & working poor
Pretty much sums up the parties' priorities
washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020…
At a moment when 27.4 million adults — about 13% — report that they sometimes or often didn’t have enough to eat in the last seven days, Republicans demand that the government now subsidize rich people's meals.
census.gov/data-tools/dem…
And needless to say, insufficient tax deductibility of business meals hardly seems to be the reason execs aren't going to steakhouses right now. it's covid
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20 Dec 20
Undergraduate enrollment fell 3.6% this fall compared to a year earlier. Massive decline (10.1%) at community colleges, but an increase at private for-profits nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-e…
enrollment of first-time students down an "unprecedented" 13.1%. at community colleges, enrollment of first-time students plummeted an astounding 21% nscresearchcenter.org/wp-content/upl…
graduate/professional enrollment is up though
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29 Nov 20
WSJ reporting that Biden has chosen Cecilia Rouse (labor economist who heads @PrincetonSPIA) as CEA chair, backed by CEA members @HBoushey and @econjared. Good picks. wsj.com/articles/biden…
Select factoids from their resumes: Rouse previously served as a member of the CEA under Obama. Has done a LOT of work on education (major issue right now obvi). Her paper best covered by popular press tho is probably one about "blind" orchestra auditions
Boushey has done a ton of work on women in the workforce (whose position is more precarious than usual lately, due to covid). For years she's been running the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, which focuses on inequality
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15 Nov 20
Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world's largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific grouping under President Donald Trump. cnbc.com/2020/11/15/asi…
When Obama spoke of having the US, rather than China, “write the rules of the road” on trade, this is the alternative trade pact (then still in negotiations) that he specifically warned about. washingtonpost.com/opinions/presi…
Pacific trade pact that Obama admin negotiated & that Trump then pulled us out of, TPP, was put into place without us, renamed CPTPP. To my knowledge Biden still hasn't said whether he would rejoin the deal. Here's what he told The Post during the primary: washingtonpost.com/graphics/polit…
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