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1 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Concentrated, organized interests more powerful than diffuse public interests, part 7382 in a series.
On the merits, unbelievable. On the politics, totally explainable.
Notable follow up: a teacher / staff mandate is still likely, but it has not yet been ordered:
Old 🧵 on the role of concentrated interests in COVID policy:

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1 Oct
The Dems are going to come to a deal in the next day/week/month, it will pass, and then six people are going to write "is that anyway to run a legislature" pieces in major outlets and my head is going to explode.
Yes, in fact, this is how legislative politics in a republic works.
100% this.

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1 Oct
One thing people mistake is the actual mechanics of legislative negotiations. It's really mundane, and not at all magical.

The stakes are higher and players more experienced, but if you've ever been in a drag-out session at the HOA or in the church basement, you're familiar.
People laugh when they wheel in the pizzas, but that's almost the perfect anecdote to properly set the scene. People get tired and cranky, it's often boring and then tense and then boring; then someone annoys you. You circle around the same shit aimlessly. No one listens.
Everything takes six times longer than you expect, because that's how negotiations and deliberations always go; people stray off focus constantly and bring up stuff you thought was resolved 40 minutes ago. One person always talks too much.
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22 Sep
As a former appropriations staffer, I reiterate my belief that maybe we should just repeal the entire Budget Act. It could hardly be worse.
Someday, there will be no filibuster in the Senate and (god willing) no Budget Act and it won’t even be clear what we will talk about all day on this website.
Is a complete repeal of the Budget Act allowed under the Byrd Rule?
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22 Sep
This is my one-tweet summation of what I think is going on with the debt limit politics.
Dems want it on the CR so: (1) the GOP has to provide some votes and/or not filibuster; (2) it can be a suspension rather than a hard, numbered increase; (3) they can move it very quickly and thus (2) take the two-week vote break scheduled for October.
Republicans want to not do that so: (1) it stays in the news as the Dems move it through the budget resolution process; (2) the Dems have to do it all alone as the GOP complains about it; and (3) the Dems have to stick a number on it to satisfy the Byrd rule for reconciliation.
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17 Sep
Getting calls about a viral post saying Biden exempted Members from the federal vaxx mandate, which is a great excuse for me to lecture poor reporters about statutory authority Congress gave POTUS over Title 5 employees and the corresponding lack of power over Title 2 employees.
For the record (and setting aside any inherent constitutional authority as POTUS, which may also be sufficient), POTUS has explicit authority to make regulations for title 5 employees in 5 USC 3301, 3302, and 7301).
Also a good reminder that whatever constitutional authority POTUS has, the vast, vast majority of authority in the modern presidency is derived from statutory grants of power from Congress.
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15 Sep
Side note: this is not an "end the current authorized wars" plea; it's a plea to include sunset provisions in every future AUMF, such that passive congressional inaction can end wars, rather than needing affirms ice supermajorities to do so.
The natural state of a republic is peace, and it should take regular legislative renewals to sustain wars. This also has the benefit of having current representatives approve ongoing wars.

Sunsets flip the equation to more naturally achieve that outcome.
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