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Paul Bledsoe for The Hill: One year later, Trump's 'Big Lie' still dominates GOP
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On this first anniversary of the Donald Trump-inspired insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last Jan. 6 during which five people died, we find the Republican Party speeding toward a new identity as the “ReTrumplican Party.”
What began in the late 1850s as political movement dedicated to high moral values like expanding the right to vote and opposing the spread of slavery has become a party defined by restricting the right to vote, especially for minorities, and insisting on a litmus test of lies. The party of Honest Abe has in effect become the party of Truth-free Trump.
Just hours after the armed assault on the Capitol of Jan. 6, two thirds of House Republicans — 139 in all — voted to still overturn the 2020 election results, swallowing Trump’s “stolen election” falsehood whole and participating in the subversion their constitutional duty. They were joined in this malfeasance by another eight Republican Senators.
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PPI Vice President and Chief Economist Dr. Michael Mandel:
Senate's antitrust bill will hurt American consumers, middle-class jobs, and technological leadership
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PPI Fiscal Policy Analyst Brendan McDermott:
Surrendering to COVID-19 is the wrong cure for inflation
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PPI President Will Marshall:
PPI Statement on One-Year Anniversary of Jan. 6th Attack on the Capitol
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PPI Director of Health Care Arielle Kane:
The Government Stepped In to Protect Health Care During the Pandemic
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Washington Post: Manchin’s $1.8 trillion spending offer appears no longer to be on the table ([link removed])
"A $1.8 trillion package along the lines of what Manchin offered last month would be one of the most transformative, progressive pieces of legislation in modern history,” said Ben Ritz, a budget expert at the Progressive Policy Institute, a D.C. think tank. “The White House should absolutely take it if they can.”
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The Policy Times: Foreign partners are rankled with Biden’s worker-first trade policy ([link removed])
“The administration wants to show America’s back,” stated Mr. Gresser who is now vice president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a non-profit think tank. “It will be much harder to achieve that if what we’re seeing in the U.S. not participating in trade policy discussions and remaining in more nationalistic and more fearful mode.”
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The Hill: Climate advocates hopeful after Manchin spending comments ([link removed])
Progressive Policy Institute strategic adviser Paul Bledsoe called divisions on those issues “smaller,” however. Bledsoe, who served as the director of communications for the White House climate change task force during the Clinton administration, also said the provisions in the bill have remained “incredibly robust.” The current language “would be, by far, the largest jump-start to the U.S. clean energy and global clean energy economy ever conducted,” he said.
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On a new episode of Radically Pragmatic, PPI’s Mosaic Economic Project examines the findings of the 2021 Greater New Orleans Startup Report.
The episode explores topics such as the growth, resiliency, and economic sustainability of New Orleans – including the effects of increased remote work options – and dives into solutions to bridge gaps in race and gender equity in critical areas from entrepreneurship to COVID relief.
On the one year anniversary of the armed insurrection and invasion of the US Capitol, what is the state of American democracy?
Host Jeremiah Johnson explores how the GOP base and GOP officials are still in thrall to Donald Trump, the steps the GOP is taking to potentially subvert the 2024 presidential election, and how worried you should be about America's future democratic prospects.
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ICYMI – Reconciling with Reality
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Though cast as a power struggle between the progressive left and the pragmatic center, what’s happening on Capitol Hill is actually a reconciliation with legislative reality. Fortunately, Democrats can still deliver historic economic and social investments that the country needs by spending smarter, not just bigger. PPI's Ben Ritz outlines what a roughly $2T framework would look like that accomplishes a few big objectives well, instead of haphazardly trying to do everything at once.
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