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21 Jan, 5 tweets, 4 min read
I am over the moon with this news. So glad to have @sharblock in this key role. She literally wrote the (book length) report that reimagined how to use government to boost unionization and worker power.

It's high time that agenda was brought into OIRA.
Check out Sharon's essay in the @TheProspect alongside me, @ddayen @rdnayak @kalhartp and @tphillips for how we can use regulatory review to build back better.
prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
There is no one I'd rather have at OIRA to help implement Biden's new memo on Modernizing Regulatory Review.

The tone here is so different from every major policy document in this space going back to the Ford administration if not earlier.
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
The word "business" does not appear, and the word "efficiency" appears only in regards to getting regs out the door quicker.
And check out the @WorkerPowerLaw report that is a recipe from 10.3 percent to closer to full coverage of the workforce.
lwp.law.harvard.edu/clean-slate-pr…

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21 Jan
This is a strong first step on using the Defense Production Act to ensure adequate supply of the Public Health Supply Chain.
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
It urges ALL relevant agencies to use ALL tools - including DPA - to ensure that domestic industry sources can provide needed supplies.

Tools include "acquiring additional stockpiles, improving distribution systems, *building market capacity, or expanding the industrial base*."
This goes far beyond the Trump administration's limited use of the DPA, as documented in this two-month-long megathread.
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26 Oct 20
The Senate will vote later today to confirm Amy Coney Barrett as the sixth right-wing justice on a Supreme Court that is already historically pro-corporate.

This is just the latest in a crisis of democracy fed by and feeding multiple crises.

Mega Thread
cnn.com/2020/10/26/pol…
American government has become increasingly counter-majoritarian.

The Republican Party is on track by the end of 2020 to pick 67 percent of the life-tenured justices but only win the popular vote in 12 percent of the last eight presidential elections.
rooseveltinstitute.org/2020/09/23/his…
Further, 18 percent of the population picks a majority of the Senate that will confirm Amy Coney Barrett. Over four million Americans in DC and the US territories have no say over the Senate (and by extension, the Court) at all. Read @jbouie for more.
nytimes.com/2019/05/10/opi…
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15 Sep 20
The WTO just ruled against Trump’s China tariffs.

The case ended up hinging on a question that seems pretty unrelated to trade:

Does the totality of a country’s legal system say anything about its moral values? Thread
wto.org/english/news_e…
It was not unexpected that the WTO would find the levies in violation of the most-favored nation rules.

These are at the core of the global trading system, and ensure that the US generally gives every WTO member the same treatment.

The US did not even contest the point.
Rather, the US defense was that the MFN-violating trade actions were taken to further the cause of public morals – citing Article XX(a) of the GATT.
wto.org/english/docs_e…
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7 Jul 20
Joe Biden has put out a supply chain plan today.

Here's a few key features.

joebiden.com/supplychains/
It envisions an ongoing review and planning process to ensure that the US always has access to critical supplies. This complements planning exercises that the DoD already does, and that all of government should be doing (but basically hasn't) through the DPAS process.
While some experts have called for *either* stockpiling resources *or* reshoring - the plan envisions an all of the above approach.
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15 Apr 20
You want a thread on databases on policy responses to the COVID crisis? Here you go.
First up, the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) drawn up by @thomasnhale and co that has the nifty feature of summarizing disparate types of responses - say, school closures and stimulus - by an index of overall "stringency."
bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/resea…
As it turns out, most governments around the world lean towards stringent policy responses.

That includes Sweden, which has gotten dinged in the press for its (in relative terms) lax response.
Read 18 tweets
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13 Mar 20
Canadian parliament to ratify USMCA trade pact Friday, as part of its coronavirus response.

While this might reassure markets, there are reasons to be worried about what this template means for governments' ability to respond to health crises.

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ca.reuters.com/article/busine…
As I wrote in December, the USMCA maintains or goes further than NAFTA 1.0 on setting constraints on countries' public health regulations.
medium.com/@toddntucker/t…
We're still in the process of figuring out how long the virus can survive outside the human body, but estimates have been getting revised upwards to 2-3 days.

That's a long stretch in super efficient commercial / delivery markets - both domestic and intl
time.com/5801278/corona…
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