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Hi everyone! Hope your Thursday is off to a great start.
Tomorrow’s newsletter will be a mailbag edition. Send me your questions on redistricting, Trump’s declining poll numbers, the trip to China, the midterms, “The Apprentice” 2028 edition, or anything else that’s on your mind in the world of politics and government, whether attached to a recent headline or something bigger-picture.
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In the meantime, if you want to hear from me today: I’ll be going live with Chris Cillizza at 11 a.m. ET to talk about my piece yesterday about Trump’s approval rating dive. You should get an email when it starts, but you can also click here to watch it at the appointed time.
And then, right after that… Some of the best reporters in the congressional press corps have started a new live show called 535, which aims to cover not the politics of Congress — but the policies, sitting down with lawmakers to talk about serious legislative proposals, not just the “he said, she said.”
I think it’s a severely under-covered space, and I’m excited to be joining them at 12 p.m. ET to talk about one of my favorite things: what Congress got done this week. As always, there might be some surprises! You can watch that here.
So: Poll numbers at 11 a.m. ET. Congress at 12 p.m. ET. And don’t forget to send in questions all day, so I can answer them in tomorrow’s mailbag issue.
Talk to you tomorrow,
Gabe
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As a contrarian and non partisan:
If we have to have tariffs as policy to derive revenue, why can't we use a forcing mechanism to immediately pass all costs directly to the end consumer and just have the impact happen in real time. Hint. It's not politically correct. Not enough cruelty to make the poorest amongst us suffer enough.... Trumpism.
That old idea of the Fair Tax, much akin to VAT Value Added Taxation that would synchronize near seamlessly each step in every supply chain would most likely stop the shock loading seen in the chaos of the Trump plan now playing out with the really stupid lawsuit culture that only credits the first stage importers with viable claims for the deemed 'illegal tariff' cost relief. This whole mess is beyond idiotic. Everyone below the first tier has to beg for relief with no real expectation of ever seeing their loses made even partially whole.
Revisit the Fair Tax ideas. Clean up the numerous rough edges in that idea and let's get it on.
All costs are ALWAYS passed on to the end consumer, anyway. Certainly, the end costs are to be much less without the stupid fits and starts in the unnecessary chaos being seen today.
Lawyer upping !! Making the lawyer class more wealthy as this current Trump mess works its way through the courts
These costs today will take years to resolve. It did Not have to be this way, remember? Adding to the national debt unnecessarily is reprehensible.
We can do better. We should try.
Yesterday’s post was VERY informative!Thank you !