Brendan Duke

Pinning this: I’m happy to debate and mix it up with people on here, but I will gleefully block anyone who doesn’t address me like they would a normal person in a room. Every personal insult fills me with glee that I get to block a keyboard coward.

This is a concession that despite the chest thumping One Big Beautiful Bill is not a political winner and, is in fact, a huge political vulnerability for Trump. Taking away food and health care from low-income Americans is both repugnant and bad politics.

Very insightful point from @genebsperling here--"we must extend tax cuts" applies to tax cuts for estates worth tens of millions of dollars and profits of wealthy business owners, but not tax credits that make health care more affordable.

My new essay in ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ How Trump/Republican principle of extending “current policy” tax cuts is iron clad for the uber-well-off - not for working America. Workers will face a crushing $335 billion tax hike on health care. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

New @The_Budget_Lab tariff analysis incorporating policy through July 22, including the new "reciprocal" tariff rates on Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, which go into effect August 1. In brief... 1/10

“Scott-Warren” legislation certainly is attending grabbing…

But there's more! NEPA reform for infill housing! CDBG grants used as leverage to encourage local housing production!

Another key area of federal competency is financing and mortgage access — addressing some of @KAErdmann's points about bringing back low-end lending as the actual solution to concern about investor-owned single family homes. slowboring.com/p/protectionis…

Big title on manufactured housing, which is one of the core areas of federal competency here, including the critical chassis reform that I've been talking about for years. slowboring.com/p/how-to-unlea…

New bipartisan housing package from Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren just dropped — and it's good!

Just read @vincent_rollet's incredible paper on effects of upzoning in NYC. Wow, wow, wow! If CA were a well-governed state, we'd be offering Meta-like pay to bring folks like Vincent into @California_HCD & @Cal_LCI. 🧵/16, with the highlights.

Yo dawg, I heard you like economic data, so I made next week Most interesting: ECI Most overhyped: FOMC Most covered: Jobsday Most confusing: GDP rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/hot-data-…

From Epstein to South Park to grocery prices, Trump is the establishment now. For better or worse, he won. He dominates the GOP he got judges to agree he can dispense with independent agencies and he’s got many institutional leaders scared of him. He’s in charge and responsible.

Is decarbonization dead? @JaneAFlegal & I join @ezraklein to talk through how Trump just shredded America's most ambitious climate policy, what survived, and where we go from here. Listen @nytimes or wherever you get your podcasts. 🎁 link below.

what really grinds my gears are dogs in grocery stores, restaurants, and coffee shops. it's disgusting. everyone knows it's not allowed, but there's complete impunity, with staff either not wanting the hassle of enforcing the posted rules or even giving the dogs treats

Interesting related point: The D.C. CFO says that all the tax breaks that @MayorBowser had negotiated with the Commanders (some of which Mendelson is reversing) would have cost D.C. $1.5 billion over 30 years and weren't financially necessary for the team.

A common Trump Admin TP for why it will achieve sustained 3% GDP is that it's going to enact massive federal deregulation. I don't think that massive federal deregulation would get you there, but even if you did...no evidence they have achieved massive federal deregulation.

I always thought this *was* the intention of Medicare Advantage but it’s a good report and insane that Republicans are slashing Medicaid benefits for the most vulnerable while leaving these scams untouched.

Democrats need to avoid boxing themselves in with a Biden-style tax pledge if they want to repair the damage of Trump's tariffs. slowboring.com/p/repairing-th…