Zen Politics

[Zen Politics @Zen_Politics]

You don't do an interview to say "I don't know" unless your message is really don't blame me for this.

[Zen Politics @Zen_Politics]

"We know Scott Bessent was not part of the decision,
@steveliesman @SRuhle on the tariff plan, because he told Annmarie Hordern of Bloomberg (@annmarie of @business). https://t.co/T4Tx96hZ4s

[Zen Politics @Zen_Politics]

Tesla board members, executive sell off over $100 million of stock in recent weeks https://t.co/b9bGl8XeaH

[Allan Rivlin @AllanRiv]

This leaves out shutting down FEMA.

[Zen Politics @Zen_Politics]

2/2 for the link: https://t.co/6FHr0uGG4D

[Zen Politics @Zen_Politics]

This is very soon for Trump’s approval to be dropping so fast, especially among independents and younger voters. Economist YouGov poll also finds Americans’ approval of Musk declining and DOGE ratings trail 15 other government agencies including FAA CDC EPA and USAID. 1/2

[Zen Politics @Zen_Politics]

This is very soon for Trump’s approval to be dropping so fast, especially among independents and younger voters. Economist YouGov poll also finds Americans’ approval of Musk declining and DOGE ratings trail 15 other government agencies including FAA CDC EPA and USAID. 1/2

[Allan Rivlin @AllanRiv]

This is not a fight about policy, it is a fight about the law, specifically, The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, passed by Congress to make it clear Nixon did not have the power to do what Trump is doing now.
https://t.co/bG8n5A807B

[Zen Politics @Zen_Politics]

Everything is on the chopping block and yet if you add up a the claims of fraud and savings there is less there than the added cost of flying Air Force One over the Daytona 500. They have been cutting millions and still need to find trillions.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Donald Trump and Elon Musk need to come up with trillions for a tax break for the wealthiest Americans.

And to pay for it, everything is on the chopping block.

[Allan Rivlin @AllanRiv]

Chess Grandmaster and Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov literally wrote the book on the Putin a decade ago, "Winter Is Coming." The Trump/Putin relationship is better understood as two crime bosses dividing up territory than rival heads of state.

[Zen Politics @Zen_Politics]

Alice Rivlin was a deficit hawk in the Clinton Administration so she was generally and correctly perceived to be aligned with the moderate Democrats, but her politics were clearly moving to the left at the end of her life.
https://t.co/ilIGWq4gbU

[Zen Politics @Zen_Politics]

I used to think my opponents were the folks who believed Roe v Wade was wrongly decided. Now I understand my opponents believe the American Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War were wrongly decided.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Legendary CBS reporter Marvin Kalb & former Moscow correspondent warn that Trump’s capitulation to Putin will only embolden China:

“A deal leaving Ukraine in a ditch would mean America’s role as a trusted global leader would now be a thing of the past”

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

"I think DOGE is an unelected, unofficial, small group of young tech bros who are charging into different federal agencies getting into their core computer systems...copying and downloading reams of data," says Sen. Chris Coons. https://t.co/PZYEmGGtcM

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

[Zen Politics @Zen_Politics]

Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work. https://t.co/Drq5ROVOd1

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

“Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS” https://t.co/R9DvdCRXB3

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Republican-led states are creating agencies that “mirror Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s DOGE effort” to “cut federal spending and slash state agencies”, says @TheEconomist’s @rsimjackson on “Checks and Balance” https://t.co/5dfye046mG 🎧

[Jason Bailey @jbaileyky]

Elon Musk's DOGE is cutting the federal workforce, yet Kentucky has 23,000 federal employees--more than work at Amazon, Ford or UPS.

A big share of these employees provide health care and benefits to the state's 370,000 veterans. More here: https://t.co/UOWJftngiB

[Mike Dwyer @MikeDwyerKY]

Kentuckians: Please take a moment to read the letter below from one of our fellow citizens and share with everyone you know. This is the result of the choices made at the ballot box.

Kentucky has 37,000 federal employees.

#kentucky #doge