PPI's Progress Report: Trump won’t let America move on from his 2020 false reality show

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News, events, and must-read analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute.

Trump won’t let America move on from his 2020 false reality show

By Will Marshall
President and Founder of PPI
For The Hill

Elections are about the future, not the past, as the old cliché has it. But as the 2024 presidential campaign gets underway, U.S. voters can’t seem to escape the noxious aftermath of the 2020 election.

Many would like to move on, but Donald Trump won’t let them. He wants to rerun the 2020 contest next year, only this time with him winning. Complicating his improbable bid is the belated legal reckoning he and his lackeys now face for scheming to steal the last election.

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How Democrats Can Turn the Tables on Republicans’ Education Politics

By Tressa Pankovits
Co-Director of PPI's Reinventing America's Schools
For The Messenger

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965. It’s one of the most important education-related pieces of legislation ever passed, in no small part because of its Title I provision.

House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee just voted to gut Title I. Specifically, they want to slash an astonishing 80% of its budget. With a Democrat-controlled Senate and President Biden’s veto pen ready, House Republicans have zero chance of enacting this funding cut. Democrats should waste no time making hay out of their maleficence.

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NEW REPORT:
U.S. Supply Chains and Biden's China Challenge

By Keith B. Belton,
for the Innovation Frontier Project

The report offers a new approach based on a novel metric to respond to the vulnerabilities in the U.S.’s trade relationship with China. Report author Keith Belton introduces a new supply chain measure called revealed comparative dependence (RCD), which can be used to identify goods and industries where the U.S. is excessively dependent on Chinese imports.

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Tressa Pankovits
Co-Director of Reinventing America's Schools
Tressa Pankovits is the Co-Director of Reinventing America’s Schools, which researches innovations needed to create a 21st century model for public education that is geared to the knowledge economy. A lawyer with more than 10 years of experience in domestic and international education policy, management, and operations, Tressa is a national thought leader and passionate advocate for autonomous school models that increase educational equity.