Patrick Sullivan
@sullosaurus
Postdoc at the American Political Economy Exchange (APEX) @ISPSYale. Previously @EXCInequality. Part Owner: Green Bay Packers
Hope so. What a giant fucking failwhale of a bill.
*POLITICO: THOMAS MASSIE SAYS HAS ENOUGH VOTES TO BLOCK TRUMP’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL IN THE HOUSE Wow.
Republicans' hugely unpopular bill is law; will they pay the electoral price for it they should? My research with @sullosaurus for @equitablegrowth has good news and bad news. The good: voters informed about the bill's effects overwhelmingly oppose it. equitablegrowth.org/americans-info…
If enacted, the #ReconciliationBill may be "most regressive U.S. tax and budget law in at least the past four decades." How are Americans’ views of the bill affected by information about its regressive effects? @Jacob_S_Hacker and @sullosaurus explore: equitablegrowth.org/working-papers…
About 26 people in Iowa pay the estate tax each year - The estate tax is paid by less than 1 in 1,000 estates - wealthiest heirs in the country (ie not family farmers)
Trump: "Very importantly for Iowa, this bill rescues over 2 billion family farms from the so-called estate tax or the death tax." (over 2 billion??????)
Senate Republicans made a horrible House bill even worse. House Republicans should step back & find the courage to say no to any bill that would raise costs & take health coverage & food assistance away from people struggling to afford the basics.
The Senate-passed bill weakens the tax system and makes it more regressive, complex, and gameable. Many of its tax cuts are complicated and wasteful tax breaks that dole out favors to specific industries and activities with little or no good policy reason.
"healthcare that ought by right go to his fellow citizens" says guy taking healthcare from tens of millions of his fellow citizens
This guy wants to bankrupt Medicaid by importing millions of illegal immigrants and giving them healthcare that ought by right go to his fellow citizens. Now he pretends to care about them. The dishonesty is off the charts.
100K+ people will die from preventable deaths when millions lose their health insurance. Hard to see how that is immaterial.
Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.
Ordinary Republicans hate Trump's bill once they understand what it actually does motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
More evidence -- here from Howard Gleckman over at TPC - at how the Senate bill has become more extreme, including more regressive on the tax side taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/pending…
Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.
Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.