Liam Donovan
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Rs consolidating behind their Senate candidate early while well-financed Ds beat each other up on personal and ideological grounds for the ensuing year is an inversion of the dynamic that has plagued the GOP in competitive races for the better part of the past decade.
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It is surprisingly underreported that DoD has its own Loan Programs Office (called the Office of Strategic Capital), and that office now has $200 billion in loan authority.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a podcaster
Useful visualization of what people have heard about from One Big Beautiful Bill - and what of those provisions gets the most support. No tax on tips - most well known + popular. Reducing Medicaid spending - most well known + unpopular.
There is not a straightforward relationship between the amount voters have heard about a provision and the extent to which it is supported.
Orderly primary process>>>marginal "candidate quality"
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Depending on how they handle these otherwise routine approvals, the compromise could end up being worse from a practical standpoint than the PIS policy it was seeking to avoid. All-time backfire.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told us the Interior memo “is like putting the final nail into” a compromise she helped negotiate as part of the GOP’s megalaw offering more time for solar/wind projects that begin construction in the next 12 months to qualify for tax credits
This is one of those deals where it doesn't matter what hyper-engaged twitter users think about a story very few people will actually read and more about how it comes out on the normie end after being refracted through their self-selected mix of platforms, voices, and content.
And a reminder that it didn't have to be this way
The Sherrod Brown lesson also being understood
This has always been my (tentative) view of the ICA rescission provisions; Congress is always at liberty to pass a rescission bill, no deadline on that. The ICA deadline forces funds to be released and short-circuit the fast-track provisions, but IMO they don't kill the bill.
My understanding is now that rescissions has passed the Senate the deadline doesn’t really matter. If the bill passes the House after the deadline, the money is still clawed back. What mattered was fast track in the Senate cc @BBKogan
I'm fine with a Beshear boomlet both because I have doubts about him carrying the mantle of national dems and if I'm totally wrong he's probably the best anybody not on the left could hope for among Dem 2028 hopefuls.
Andy Beshear making an impression early in SC. Ppl responding to his message, his demeanor and the fact he’s a winner.
This is the question Ds should have been asking the day after the last CR instead of getting mad at Chuck Schumer. The problem is that preventing a shutdown with a stopgap is its own reward. Bargaining only comes into play as part of a broader deal.
So what should Democrats demand for their votes to fund the government in September? Because they should start planning that strategy now.