nothing screams cutting inefficiency quite like co department heads
Elizabeth Pancotti
3,730 posts
Elizabeth Pancotti
@ENPancotti
policy @groundwork. before @rooseveltinst, @sensanders, @employamerica. lover of breakfast tacos and unions. opinions are commitments to the bit.
Washington, DC
Joined December 2012
- Apparently we’ve learned nothing about aggregate statistics obscure how working class people experience the economy. So yes, the wreckage of 50 years of neoliberalism:
“The wreckage of fifty years of neoliberalism” - In fact, 82% of voters, including 80% of Republicans, support Direct File.
Nobody asked for the IRS to be Americans’s tax preparer, filer, and auditor. The House-passed One, Big, Beautiful Bill puts an end to the IRS Direct File Program.Readers added contextA poll reveals 82% of likely voters across all political affiliations like it. "Direct File is incredibly popular among taxpayers. Last year, 90% of surveyed users rated their experience as excellent or above average...." groundworkcollaborative.org/news/direct-fi… filesforprogress.org/datasets/2025/… - thought you guys were the popularists
01:41Josh Barro: "When I look at policies in New York that stand in the way of Abundance, very often if you look under the hood, you eventually find a labor union at the end that's the driver" - yesterday we gave @SenSanders a lil chatgpt demo. it planned a lovely date for 2 in burlington, vt and said disney should pay it’s workers a living wage.
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks ow.ly/jJh610625C6- Called my grandma today to tell her she's gonna save $800 a month on her prescriptions, highly recommendRight now, Americans pay two to three times more for prescription drugs than they would anywhere else. But the Biden-Harris Administration beat Big Pharma. And after months of negotiations, Medicare has reached agreements to lower the price for 10 of the highest-cost drugs.
- this is it, this is why we endured love is blind dc, all for this headline
- The working class doesn’t want redistributive center-left policies, they want populist predistributive ones. They’re not voting against their economic self-interests, they’re demanding policies that are better than the ones that make New Dem elites feel better.
Replying to @davidshor and @keithdorejelThe fundemental coalitional fact of our time is that wealthy voters are more supportive of economic redistribution than the working class right now. That’s ideologically inconvenient but it’s true and ignoring it just leads to incorrect political strategy. - This is a Wisconsin town with a population of 100k. The Republican Congressman won this district by 10 and Trump won the county by 6 in 2024.If you build it, they will come -- Kenosha edition
00:00 - don’t worry king i got 3 for u: the inflation reduction act, the chips and science act, and the bipartisan infrastructure act
Please name one successful US industrial policy. - if soaring electricity prices were my biggest concern, I simply wouldn't have rolled back the largest public investment in energy solutions in us history but ymmvTRUMP’S ENERGY CHIEF: SOARING ELECTRICITY PRICES BIGGEST CONCERN
- Senate Republicans are scrapping a regulation that ensures your grandma’s nursing home has enough nurses so that they can pay for tax breaks for billionaires.Mike Crapo says Republicans are likely to repeal a Biden-era nursing home staffing rule as an offset in the Senate’s reconciliation bill. @sn_handler and @LauraEWeiss16 have the details: punchbowl.news/article/financ…
