Catherine Rampell
@crampell
MSNBC anchor/co-host of The Weekend: Primetime, Sat/Sun 6-9pm. Washington Post syndicated op-ed columnist. More active at the cerulean place these days.
A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when Trump blocked release of bird flu research. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography, and of course Trump himself wapo.st/4hD1gUZ
FEMA Urban Search & Rescue branch head resigns. Told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network cnn.com/2025/07/21/pol…
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CNBC: Do you think Jay Powell should stick around? MIKE JOHNSON: My opinion is that we should reduce interest rates. The American economy is hot. CNBC: But if it's too hot, you don't want to cut rates.
As usual, @crampell channels almost precisely what I’m thinking but much more persuasively. Great column on the siren song of populism. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
For months, Trump has waged war on objective, reliable federal statistics, @crampell writes. "These figures help families decide where to live, physicians how to treat their patients, and businesses what to sell or whether to hire." wapo.st/4lRV25V
This is literally superpower suicide. These are some of the most talented public servants doing critical work. Champagne corks are popping in Beijing and Moscow after they already emptied the wine cellars celebrating the end of USAID.
HAPPENING NOW!! Moving scene - tears, hugs, and cheers - inside the State Dept HQ tonight, as diplomats gathered in the lobby to clap out their laid off colleague, some of which have served for decades 👇🏻
There’s more than one way to cook the books. You can doctor or delete data after it’s been collected. Or, just ensure the numbers are never collected in the first place. Lately, Trump has been into leaning into that 2nd scheme, by purging stats agencies wapo.st/4kAy6qt
I think the fact that it’s been widely reported in the business press that Paramount believes settling lawsuits with Trump is key to winning merger approval from your agency is influencing some people’s understanding of the Colbert situation. Perhaps you should clear the air.
I am not aware of any economist anywhere near the mainstream who is supporting anything like 1% rates in the current environment. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said markets want an independent Federal Reserve that isn't subject to political whims and suggested firing Powell could be damaging to financial markets. From a Wednesday interview on Fox: BAIER: President Trump asked House Republicans on…
Inflation is a term for a broad increase in the price level. There's no magic exemption because you intentionally pursued a dumbass set of politics. Many episodes of inflation are caused by dumbass policy choices of one form or another.
“Tariff inflation” is an oxymoron. Raising a price via an explicit policy choice is not inflation, and resulting relative price changes in the economy are not a cognizable subject of monetary policy. A Fed holding rates higher in response is politicizing its role.
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" waste, fraud, etc: it costs $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Has everyone's brain been pickled at this point?
This morning, I sent a letter to all public-use airports in Florida addressing the state’s new ban on weather modification. This landmark legislation marks another victory for health, freedom, and environmental protection in Florida. We expect full cooperation from our airports…
I had not seen this Fox News extended interview with Trump from 2024 — where they deliberately edited his Epstein answer — where he won’t commit to releasing the full files because of “phony” stuff in it.
NEW: The @MiamiHerald has obtained a list of hundreds of people detained or scheduled to be at Alligator Alcatraz. The government isn't realizing names. Families and attorneys are having trouble finding people at the site We're publishing the list here: miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…
Fueled by tariffs, US steelmaking giant Nucor raised prices again last month, the latest in a string of hikes that have its US prices 35% higher since this time last year steelindustry.news/nucor-raises-p…
Kelly on Bondi: I don’t think Trump realizes how much she has humiliated the administration. If you want to look for the villain in this story, we have found her. She was either lying now or then.
Kelly on Bondi: I don’t think Trump realizes how much she has humiliated the administration. If you want to look for the villain in this story, we have found her. She was either lying now or then.
2 men wearing 'ICE' vests rob motorist at gunpoint in Milton. What to know, plus safety tips delawareonline.com/story/news/cri…
Anyone who claims that Trump's trade wars are smart deal-making needs to reckon with the fact that he has no idea what his own objectives are. How do you negotiate with someone who doesn't know what he wants??
Trump says he's imposing a 50% tariff on Brazil because its tariffs and trade barriers are causing "unsustainable Trade Deficits," which he calls "a major threat to our Economy and our National Security!" But the U.S has a trade surplus with Brazil.