Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy for the Center for American Progress doing budget, tax, and econ.
Formerly: Biden OMB, Biden Transition Team, Senate Budget Committee (Murray and Sanders).
CBO and OMB’s biggest fan! Personal account.
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Republicans are insisting on increasing defense spending by more than $250 billion — pushing defense up to $1.15 trillion per year — and the official line is “it’s Democrats fault we can’t agree.” Be for real now.
Trump made his personal lawyer acting AG who then wrote a directive to stop all IRS audits of Trump, even though he owes $100+ million in unpaid taxes, thus effectively giving himself a free $100+ million.
This morning, complicit GOP senators passed on their single best opportunity to stop it.
Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here: