David Dayen explains what’s in this thing.
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CBO’s Claim on SNAP Work Requirements Is Highly Suspect
Advocates question whether new enrollees will pour into the food assistance program, given bureaucratic barriers and no additional resources for caseworkers and agencies.
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Biden, Student Debt, and the 2024 Election
Today on TAP: The president could make generational justice a big winner for basic decency—and for his re-election.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Congress Can Defeat Judicial Overreach
On today’s X-Date: Joe Manchin’s Pipeline Payoff gets immunized from judicial review, as does what could have been a deregulation ratchet.
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You Go to War (or Not) With the President You Have
Today on TAP: The debt ceiling idiocy tells us a lot about Joe Biden’s strengths and limitations.
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The Auto-CR Dilemma
Today’s X-Date: If the debt ceiling deal passes, the military budget goes up and IRS funding gets slashed. But if Congress doesn’t pass the subsequent spending bills, that reverses.
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As Deals Go, This Is One of Them
An X-Date special: running down the details of the debt ceiling agreement.
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Centrist Democrats and Biden’s Debt Deal
Today on TAP: Biden’s debt negotiations are now caught between two contradictory strategies. Corporate Democrats add to the problem.
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Reinventing the Sequester
The emerging deal would allow congressional Republicans to enact savage cuts to federal spending without having to ever specify them.
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The Ron DeSantis Campaign Faceplant
The Florida governor took to Twitter to announce his campaign. It didn’t go well.
