Deloitte predicts December budget update will show bottom line has worsened since May, in fiscal ‘thud’ Next month’s update of the federal budget will forecast a bigger deficit for 2024-25 than was predicted in the May budget, according to the Deloitte Access Economics’ Budget Monitor. 11/24/2024 - 10:37 pm | View Link
U-M forecasts see bigger deficits under Trump, but no economic catastrophes The university's economists foresee momentum from potential tax cuts as canceling out some of the potential drag on the economy from tariffs. 11/21/2024 - 12:12 am | View Link
How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true ELON MUSK and Vivek Ramaswamy plan to whip the American state into shape. On November 14th their newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced that it wants to hire “super-high-IQ ... 11/17/2024 - 3:55 am | View Link
A Missouri judge has permanently struck down four provisions of the state’s sweeping voter suppression law, House Bill 1878, that criminalized civic engagement activities like voter registration and the distribution of absentee ballot applications. Another win for democracy! Via Democracy Docket:
In a 75-page ruling issued Wednesday, Missouri Judge Jon E.
Pro-LGBTQ+ voices panned an Ohio bill signed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine Wednesday that will bar transgender students in public and private Ohio schools from using "multi-occupancy facility"—bathrooms, as well as locker rooms, changing room, or shower rooms—that match their gender identity.
"We made it clear to Gov. DeWine and Ohio legislators that S.
Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged U. S. President Joe Biden to ensure that his administration's "historic work to undo the damage of federal marijuana policy" would not end with the steps already taken over the past three years, calling on the president to "deprioritize" marijuana prosecutions before his term ends in January.
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In just one day, without even becoming president yet, RePresident-elect Donald Trump solved the immigration crisis.
All it took was a single phone call, in which Trump uttered unknown but obviously magic words that Pres. Joe Biden refused to say for four years, presumably because he stutters or because Democrats import immigrants to vote illegally.
The nomination of Marco Rubio to the Secretary of State position opens up his senate seat, so there's lots of speculation about whom DeSantis would pick and how involved Trumpy Bear will be in the process. Via NBC News:
Roughly two weeks after the Rubio announcement, however, DeSantis’ team is still working through its options and does not plan to show its hand for at least a month, according to five people familiar with the process.