What has co-president Elon Musk accomplished in his first 100 days?
🫅Amassed undemocratic power
🏚️ Shuttered vital government agencies
🪓Slashed the federal workforce
Economic management by impulse may be fun to do in SimCity, but in the real world, it leads to fewer and fewer people approving of your presidency.
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Calling it a spin is too generous - the @WhiteHouse is just flat out lying. The only thing Trump managed to do in his first 100 days is shrink the economy.
New from me and @AlexSJacquez for @rooseveltinst: Policymakers should take seriously voters' mandate to lower their cost of living. We have some ideas, including learning from the success of the Sheinbaum administration's efforts to lower grocery prices.
New report from @impamodel shows how stupid and shortsighted Trump and Elon’s cuts to our science and R&D programs are. Degrowth mindset ⬇️
IMPA’s new research on the long-run costs of cutting federal R&D funding is featured in today’s
@nytimes
The findings are clear: plausible cuts would shrink U.S. GDP for generations.
📉 Read the article:
“We don’t know what is going to happen. What does that mean? It means that we don’t hire as much. It means a reduction in overall economic activity.”
Chat, is this a recession indicator?
Oxfam America’s @Rebecca_Riddell spoke to people across New York City to get their thoughts on tax fairness as we push for lawmakers to reject tax giveaways for the ultra-wealthy and instead create a tax system that works for everyone.
Elon Musk promised $1 trillion in savings through his work at DOGE.
Then it was $150 billion.
Now, his illegal firing of tens of thousands of federal workers is going to cost us $135 billion.
This was always a waste of time and money, but now we have the receipts.
No more outfits destined to be worn only once.
No more “just because” T.J. Maxx runs.
No more salon haircuts and manicures. No more eating out at restaurants.
No more TikTok Shop.
Trump has come for your treat economy.
Turns out (illegally) firing tens of thousands of federal workers, cutting billions from government agencies, and being an overall chaos gremlin kind of tanks your approval ratings from everyone from your coworkers to the American public.
Wall Street, Main Street, my street, your street, our streets - every street is unhappy with Trump’s handling of the economy.
I’m leading over 175 Members of Congress to fight for the government’s free, easy-to-use tax filing service.
Trump and Musk want to kill Direct File.
Instead of caving to the billionaire tax prep industry, how about standing up for working Americans?
Increasing taxes for millionaires is so popular, even Trump is considering it.
