One of my recurring points is that you cannot eliminate a $1.9 trillion deficit by cutting discretionary spending when the U.S. federal budget’s total discretionary spending in 2024 was $1.8 trillion. If you’re not willing to make changes to our entitlement systems, you’re not

If republicans ditch maga and populism and return to reaganism and true conservativism they would probably have some of the largest majorities in generations. Plenty of data shows this is what voters want. We need educate and nominate the right people and no more grifters.

The former president suffered from infirmity. The current president suffers from immorality. Our two “major” parties have been gaslighting us for decades, and it’s time for center-left and center-right Americans to unify behind integrity, competency, and basic problem solving.

I miss the Republican Party. I want it back

This is some authoritarian imbecility.

This is how the Japan trade talks are going 😭😭😭

The U.S. debt burden has climbed for three reasons. First is the increase in the population aged over 65, which allows them to draw entitlement benefits. Second is the increase in the costs of things the government pays for, including health care. Third is the interest payments

“For the first time in almost a generation, governments are starting to face resistance from the market when they try to sell long-term debt.” From the Financial Times’ “Big Read” on “The mounting pressure on bond markets.” #economy #markets #debt #bonds @ft

The Trump Admin: Elon Musk was the only outlier, monstrously creative & gifted (w/the corresponding mercurial but awful personality). Others are just 3rd rate, w/the possible exception of Bessent who may be only 2nd rate, Navarro 4th rate, Miller both 4th rate & vicious.

🚨BREAKING — My sources say that despite a major push this morning to get Trump and Elon Musk to talk, Trump flatly rejected it behind the scenes. Trump told aides he’s not speaking “to a guy who’s crazy and on drugs” and wants nothing to do with him. Instead, he’s been

I'm getting a lot of "oh, of course Patton and Montgomery or Eisenhower and Truman would have gone after each other on social media" responses. But the question is not, "did they hate each other?" It's "did they have so little self-control over their emotions that they would be

Although many hoped otherwise, we do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets: Every election is now existential theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Trump saying the quiet part out loud here. These subsidies aren’t about the public good. They’re about rewarding your friends—or punishing your enemies. There is no reason the govt should be throwing taxpayer money at billionaires. Cut them all—not just Elon’s.

We went from everyone decrying reports of Musk’s drug use as fake news to everyone dunking on him over it in less than a week, and it’s kind of hilarious.

Because nothing says “I’m not even thinking about you” like saying… “I’m not even thinking about you.” 😂

I don’t think we’re getting those $5,000 DOGE checks.

30 days away from Liberation Day 2.0 Not a single deal signed yet. What’s our strategy here? Rolling 90 day pauses every 3 months until January 2029?

Trump pardoned this drug dealer and now he’s making him the head of prisons. No. Really 👇👇 nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

Wait, I thought there was no way for the Trump administration to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S.

In “Why Nothing Works,” Marc Dunkelman argues that progressives bear responsibility for the governmental sclerosis afflicting modern America. Read Daniel DiSalvo’s review: