Political reporting is premised on the idea that reporters have privileged access to the national mood. I’m not sure I believe it?
I just love how Democrats stated policy is “the Republicans play politics with the border and we offer serious solutions” and then they ignore literally everything everyone who works on border issues tells them to do so they can puff out their chests to show everyone how tough they are.
High on their own supply. The Biden Administration timed the Asylum Ban to come out when environmental conditions & other factors were causing arrivals to fall — so that it would look like it was working — and now they think the ban that caused arrivals to drop. Lots of people will be hurt by this.
Well, there it is. As I have long argue and as my colleague @dceiver.bsky.social recently wrote, Trump’s (and Stephen Miller’s) most lasting and absolute victory is on immigration, where they’ve not only won but won conclusively by no contest
Her visit to Arizona will be Harris’ first trip to the southern border as the Democratic nominee,
Thanks for this, Colin — a lot of resonances with the US citizenship / status regime too
Possibly you’re thinking of mandatory spending (eg Medicare) or possibly also obligated funds (eg where the govt has a contract to spend money for services in the future). And these can be required but unfunded if there’s no approps bill!
This puzzled me for a moment — appropriating money *is* funding (ie, it allocates money from the US Treasury to a Department, agency, program etc) But I suspect this might be a vocabulary thing rather than a lack of understanding — for example…
I think I disagree? The alternative is unfunded mandates when congress passes bills with fiscal impact. like if you (say) changed CHIP to include more kids, they should include revenue for that.
I work on appropriations advocacy (aka federal funding) — particularly the money side. There really is no reason to do one-year funding cycles. Just do a two-year bill with every Congress, and an anomaly if you need to in the interim year.
JUST IN: The Senate has passed a stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown for now, setting up a chaotic funding fight in December.
Congress set up a chaotic, high-stakes fight over spending at the end of the year, after both chambers voted on Wednesday to avert a government shutdown.
JUST IN: The Senate has passed a stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown for now, setting up a chaotic funding fight in December.
Congress set up a chaotic, high-stakes fight over spending at the end of the year, after both chambers voted on Wednesday to avert a government shutdown.
For all the moral panic about legalizing marijuana, it seems that the much less critiqued legalization of sports betting will end up wreaking a great deal of devastation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives.