Tesla produces half of its automobiles in #Shanghai, where it enjoys tax breaks, and depends on local suppliers for critical components. The domestic market generates 25% of sales reuters.com/breakingviews/…
Mar 21, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
You're hearing a lot of frustration over DC press coverage of US-Mexico border issues from people who have worked in immigration for years.
Some historical context: Apprehension levels are lower than during Trump admin, and much lower than 2000s graphics.reuters.com/USA-IMMIGRATIO…
That's true for family and unaccompanied minor apprehensions too.
Feb 4, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Is $1.9 trillion in Covid stimulus too much or too little?
Why figuring out the cost of fixing the U.S.'s economy is complicated, by @hpschneider
reut.rs/3oQlrmq
Problem #1 - #COVID19 job loss varies by state (making it even harder for Congress to agree on a stimulus package )
Dec 26, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The last time Trump refused to sign a spending bill because he didn’t like something in it over Christmas, the government was shut for 35 days, a record reuters.com/article/us-usa…
About 800,000 government workers were forced to go without pay for weeks, and turned to crowdfunding and food banks to pay their bills and eat qz.com/1519556/unpaid…
Aug 12, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
New U.S.P.S rules force mail carriers, truck drivers to leave without all the day’s mail, delaying deliveries, unions say @andysullivan & I reuters.com/article/us-usa…
In Maine, thousands of letters have been delayed as delivery drivers follow a new directive to leave on time, even if the mail has not been loaded, explains Scott Adams, president of Maine @APWUnational chapter
Sep 25, 2019 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
*25-Sep-2019 03:40:17 PM - UKRAINE PRESIDENT SAYS THOUGHT ONLY US SIDE OF TRUMP CONVERSATION WAS GOING TO BE PUBLISHED
25-Sep-2019 03:45:11 PM - ASKED ABOUT MACRON AND MERKEL, UKRAINE PRESIDENT SAYS TRUMP CALL WAS DURING A DIFFICULT PERIOD
