Some lessons from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act
Child Tax Credit
Posted inPolitics
2022: The Year in Governing
Here’s everything to look out for over the next 12 months.
Posted inPolitics
The (Government) Customer Is Always Right
A new executive order promises to speed the delivery of government services by modernizing cooperation across federal departments and state and local governments.
Posted inBuilding Back America
The 1937 Project
Or maybe the 1979 Project. Either way, Democrats are blundering into premature austerity.
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Democrats’ Last Chance to Make Build Back Better Better
They can use the savings from provisions that will likely fall out of the bill in the Senate to make some remaining programs permanent.
Posted inBuilding Back America
What’s in the Build Back Better Framework
It has its selling points. But it doesn’t appear to meet the test of permanent, hassle-free, and meaningful.
Posted inTAP
The Stupidity of Means Testing
Today on TAP: Democrats particularly need to resist this Manchin ploy.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Democrats Abandon Middle Class on Build Back Better Resolution
It’s part of a disturbing trend that leaves out an important segment of voters from federal benefit programs.
Posted inTAP
Manchin ‘Pro-Life’ Right Up Until Birth
Today on TAP: If Medicaid is expanded in the BBB, the senator doesn’t want it to cover abortions.
Posted inBuilding Back America
What If Build Back Better Builds Back Worse?
Joe Manchin’s prescriptions for the Biden bill in some cases even fall short of the status quo.