Evening Roundup, July 8
Featuring Tom Malinowski; Jen Rubin with Rep. Chellie Pingree; David McCall; Neera Tanden & Debu Gandhi; Brian O'Neill; Meredith Blake; "Let's Do Lunch" with Jared Bernstein; and Nick Anderson
The GOP's budget bill will hurt America’s global standing
At the height of the COVID crisis, a headline in the Chinese Communist Party’s main newspaper declared that “America’s Main Opponent is Itself.” This was wishful thinking. America’s recovery from the pandemic crash showed again the advantages of our democratic system and dampened for a time the Chinese government’s confidence that it could win…
Why are we taking away services that help people? Rep. Pingree on the harms of the Reconciliation Bill
Although many of the effects of the recently passed Reconciliation Bill will not be felt until next year (after the 2026 midterms) we’re able to predict the worst of the results.
United Steelworkers pledge to hold Trump, Nippon, U.S. Steel accountable
By David McCall
For the USW, this transaction was always about the security of our members, our jobs, and our communities.
Neera Tanden & Debu Gandhi on our broken immigration system
Two days ago, Neera Tanden and Debu Gandhi of the Center for American Progress published their new piece A New Immigration System To Safeguard America’s Security, Expand Economic Growth, and Make Us Stronger. In it, the authors propose that, “Americans deserve a modern immigration system that makes the country safer and more prosperous.”
What LinkedIn Told Me This Weekend About U.S. National Security
When I told my wife I was probably ready to retire from the CIA, she said, “You need to get on LinkedIn.” My response: “What’s LinkedIn?”
Documentary Spotlight: Housewife of the Year
Every year from 1967 to 1995, mothers from across Ireland gathered in Dublin to compete in a pageant of domestic prowess known as Housewife of the Year. Televised on national broadcaster RTÉ beginning in 1982 and hosted by Gay Byrne—Ireland’s answer to Johnny Carson—the contest…
Let’s do Lunch! 07/08
Thank you to all those who tuned into another episode of Let’s Do Lunch! with this week's guest, Elena Patel! Join Jared Bernstein every Tuesday at 12pm ET to get all your burning econ questions answered! (For paid subscribers)
'There's floodin' down in Texas'
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and elsewhere. Find him on Substack at nickanderson.substack.com.
We should all be embracing the Trump as President TV show. Written, directed and staring DJ Trump. The four year show has many, many exciting episodes conceived in the "brain" of DJT. For example:
- DOGE incapacitated the Federal Bureaucracy. People die. It's Biden's fault.
- Watch the White House become a TESLA
showroom
- How America gets richer through Tariffs. (Part 1) US trading partners are begging for mercy.
- Pres DJ trashes the Constitution. Why? Because this is his show. Everyone else, including SCOTUS, are just reading their lines.
- DJ declares himself KING.
- The KING gets a gilded 787..
- RFK Jr. is "wild" and destroys US healthcare, especially for children.
- Musk is kicked off the island!
- Illegal, undocumented aliens are snatched off the street by hooded secret police
- Iran is "secretly" bombed into oblivion
- The Federalized national guard and the marines save LA.
- The Trump/Miller concentration camps are launched in the Everglades.
- Trump pushes the most avaricious budget bill in US history across the finish line. The top .01% of wealthy Americans get a lot richer. The poorest Americans pay for it with healthcare cuts. Generations of wealthy GOP donors come back from the dead to applaud DJT.
- Tariffs return today (Part 2)
- WOW! The Sec of Agriculture just announced we're bring back slavery to US farms. Rejected Medicaid recipients will be filling the jobs of deported farm workers!! I hope they can sing while picking that cotton 🤯
STAY TUNED...THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!
In case you think things have changed in DJT's
brain, below is the ad he took out in 1989 attacking the Central Park 5.
"Many New York families - White, Black, Hispanic and Asian - have had to give up the pleasure of a leisurely stroll in the Park at dusk, the Saturday visit to the playground with their families, the bike ride at dawn, or just sitting on their stoops.... Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer ... Yes, Mayor Koch, I want to hate these murderers and I always will. ... How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their Civil Liberties End When an Attack On Our Safety Begins!"
The work you do amazing z