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Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
@JessicaBRiedl
Fellow @BrookingsInst. Past: @ManhattanInst, Sen. Portman chief economist (2011-17), budget policy for 4 prez campaigns. Fiercely independent. Views mine.🏳️‍🌈
Wash DC burbs (orig Wisconsin)
Joined February 2013
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Jul 15, 2025
    I had much to say about the recent harassment & doxing campaign against my family. I have no illusions that appealing to reason & basic humanity will matter to a mob that has exhibited neither. But I felt better putting out a response before moving on.
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    When the Online Mob Came After Me—and My Kids
    From jessicariedl.blog
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Sep 17, 2025
    Expelling a student from a public university for mocking Charlie Kirk's death is blatantly unconstitutional. A big lawsuit is coming, and rightfully so.
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    Texas State University
    @txst
    Sep 16, 2025
    TXST has identified the student in the disturbing video from Monday's event. The individual is no longer a student at TXST. Federal law prevents the university from commenting on individual student conduct matters. Statement from President Damphousse: president.txst.edu/communications…
    Statement from TXST President Dr. Kelly Damphousse: This is a follow up to the message I sent earlier today. The university has identified the student in the disturbing video from Monday's event. I will not tolerate behavior that mocks, trivializes, or promotes violence on our campuses. It is antithetical to our TXST values. The individual is no longer a student at TXST. Federal law prevents the university from commenting further on individual student conduct matters. Unfortunately, some people are suggesting that the individual’s actions represent the beliefs of TXST students in general or those of specific student organizations. These kinds of insinuations are unfair to our student body, and they cause some of our students to feel unsafe. Just as the behavior in the video was reprehensible, attempts to spread the blame onto innocent students are also unacceptable. The actions of one person do not reflect our entire community or the individuals in it.
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Feb 2, 2022
    Modest proposal: Don't suspend Whoopi Goldberg. Don't fire Ilya Shapiro. Don't banish Joe Rogan. Don't pressure Amazon to stop carrying certain books. Don't practice heavy-handed social media deplatforming. Fight bad speech with better speech, not by censoring or deplatforming.
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Sep 10, 2024
    Sorry, but this is disqualifying. He is endorsing a coup.
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    Headquarters
    @HQNewsNow
    Sep 10, 2024
    Q: Would you have certified the 2020 election? Vance: I would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Dec 2, 2018
    Wow. You claim $21 Trillion in Pentagon Waste? The entire Pentagon budget from 1789-2018 has totaled $18 trillion, Come on, This is embarrassing.
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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
    House Democrats
    @AOC
    Dec 2, 2018
    $21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions “could not be traced, documented, or explained.” $21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon. And that’s before our premiums.
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Feb 11, 2024
    1) NATO does not require any significant member dues. 2) After 9/11, NATO invoked Section 5 to defend America, and fought beside us in Afghanistan. 3) Encouraging Russia to invade and slaughter other nations out of spite is Nazi-level sociopathic.
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    Acyn
    @Acyn
    Feb 10, 2024
    Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    May 13, 2022
    Replying to @JoeBiden
    “You want to bring down inflation?" 1) Stop the spending 2) Promote domestic oil & gas 3) Open ports 4) Repeal tariffs 5) Repeal Buy America rules 6) Suspend Davis-Bacon 7) Repeal new NEPA regs 8) Repeal new Ethanol rules 9) Resume student loan payments 10) Suspend Jones Act
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Sep 1, 2025
    Today alone, the White House has claimed: -$8 trillion in new tariff revenue. -$4 trillion in net deficit reduction. -$5 trillion in new business investment. -Hundreds of thousands of jobs from these investments. -Record low gas prices. Each claim is completely, 100%, made-up.
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    The White House
    @WhiteHouse
    Aug 31, 2025
    LABOR DAY 🤝 GOLDEN AGE President Trump’s protectionist trade policies have helped drive more than $8 trillion in new U.S. investment, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Jul 19, 2019
    This is my favorite story of the day. Bernie Sanders' campaign staff has unionized and is demanding a $15 per hour "living wage" and 100%-paid health care for those earning under $60k. The campaign leadership has thus far resisted.
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    Labor fight roils Bernie Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 hourly pay the candidate has...
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Jan 31, 2025
    This word salad makes zero sense. Cutting $1 trillion by next year is laughably absurd. And no idea what "economic growth should be able to match that number" means, or how that would eliminate inflation. This is just incoherent bluster. Hot air.
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Oct 20, 2025
    That it took the White House 9 months to figure this out is economic malpractice.
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    unusual_whales
    @unusual_whales
    Oct 19, 2025
    BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Jun 20, 2021
    Some "Twitter is not real life" data, using Pew surveys: - Twitter users are D+15 - which would tie HI & VT for the most liberal state. - The 10% of Twitter users who post 92% of all tweets are D+43 - which would make it America's 2nd most liberal House district. (1/2)
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Feb 4, 2025
    “Why aren’t you cheering Trump & DOGE? I thought you wanted spending and deficit cuts!" Because I’ve been doing this for 25 years and can’t be tricked by gimmicky nonsense. Trump’s first term added $8 trillion in enacted spending hikes and tax cuts to the deficit - half of
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    Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
    @JessicaBRiedl
    Jan 28, 2025
    Sorry, the blame here lies entirely with the White House for releasing a terribly-written memo that did not include most of the guardrails they are now rushing to add as part of their next-day damage control. Perhaps the White House should try to get it right the first time.
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    Glenn Youngkin
    @GlennYoungkin
    Jan 28, 2025
    I’ve spoken to senior officials at the White House and confirmed the temporary pause by OMB does not impact individual assistance and will not interrupt disaster recovery efforts, school and childcare funding, healthcare for seniors or low-income families, funding for our roads,
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