Allan Rivlin

Co-Author of "Divided We Fall" with Alice M. Rivlin and Sheri Rivlin; CEO Zen Political Research; former Partner, Hart Research Assoc.

[Allan Rivlin @AllanRiv]

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

[Allan Rivlin @AllanRiv]

"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). "I don't know" = "don't blame me for this." https://t.co/BX0fbxV50M

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Tariffs are a tax paid by the American consumer. See my Op Ed in Fox this morning. https://t.co/e1lww7ERT3

[John Kasich @JohnKasich]

Tariffs are a tax on the American people - plain and simple. History shows that isolationist strategies don’t work for America. They never have, and they never will.

[John Kasich @JohnKasich]

Supporters of these tariffs - a tax on Americans - want you to believe the U.S. is a helpless victim in global trade. It’s just not true. The real cost of these reckless policies will fall on American farmers, manufacturers, and families already struggling to get by.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

“If we live in a country where judges’ orders can be ignored by an Administration bent on amassing unchecked power, we no longer live in a democracy.”
https://t.co/VuiRzMhlkK

[Allan Rivlin @AllanRiv]

This leaves out shutting down FEMA.

[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.

[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.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

It’s mafia behavior. Like Putin, Trump thinks only transactionally and immediately, eg tariffs despite long-term negatives. Extorting Ukraine because the US gave aid *in its own national interest* because, again, he sees the price of everything and the value of nothing.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer https://t.co/pp3r39DyM6

[PBS News @NewsHour]

President Trump's social media post over the weekend that implied he is above the law triggered alarm bells from experts who were already concerned about the legal and constitutional boundaries tested during his first few weeks in office.

@IAmAmnaNawaz speaks to @KimLaneLaw for more.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the united states has become the largest source of geopolitical uncertainty in the world.

it’s an extraordinary development.

[Allan Rivlin @AllanRiv]

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/bG8n5A807B

[Allan Rivlin @AllanRiv]

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.

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“The United States has begun to move closer to Russia, as populism, cronyism, and corruption have sapped the strength of American democracy,” wrote Fiona Hill in a 2021 essay.
https://t.co/3EYLuXruNy

[Allan Rivlin @AllanRiv]

Trump’s Indefensible Proclamation https://t.co/jwunJa4d0P

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Hi @DOGE, we've just located some more government waste.