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Donald Trump returned to office with two paths in front of him: he could try the more arduous route of achieving policy through Congress, or the shortcut of trying to do it himself. He gambled on the latter route. It hasn’t really worked out. open.substack.com/pub/wakeuptopo…

Donald Trump 🤝 Joe Biden “The BBB is a big WINNER!!!”

Interesting trend of GOP lawmakers openly admitting they weren’t aware of provisions in a major legislative package that they voted for. Seems like a huge indictment of the legislative process! (And this has happened to Dems too in the past.) Maybe Congress shouldn’t be passing

House Republicans now say DOGE merely “set the table” for Congress to cut spending, all but acknowledging the initiative’s failure to achieve its goal. Elon Musk waved a chainsaw at CPAC. Sounds like the GOP believes he was really only wielding a placemat wakeuptopolitics.com/p/a-fitting-en…

One of my favorite poll results: 26% of Republicans and 17% of Democrats said in 2024 that “the next president” should act on important issues without Congress. But that # shoots up for 57% when you ask Republicans about Trump doing so, and to 39% when you ask Dems about Biden.

Seems notable that when a young democratic socialist endorses another young democratic socialist, she still opts to use the oldest, most mainstream outlet available: the New York Times. This despite AOC’s use of Instagram Lives and Mamdani’s use of snappy videos. They’ve yet to