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Reporter at The Washington Post, focused on policy. Taxes, health care, econ, etc. Tips, etc.: Jeffrey.stein@washpost.com. Formerly Vox, the Ithaca Voice.

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Joined July 2011

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    12 Jul 2018

    Trump wants Europe to match US military spending But what if we matched Europe's? We could: - Give health care to 29M uninsured in US - Build 10M new housing units, cut child poverty in half - Retire $1.4T in student debt, pass free college & preK More:

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    Warren gets a kind of roundabout health care Q, uses it to talk about how she wants to crack down on insurance companies. Does not mention that she is a sponsor of Medicare for All legislation, interestingly

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    Five minutes before doors were supposed to open at Warren’s first Iowa event and it’s already full

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  6. Sometimes you hear griping that members who run progressive campaigns them staff up with centrist-ish aides ... By contrast Riffle’s twitter handle is, “Every billionaire is a policy failure” - (thought he’d removed it)

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  7. Very interesting news, to me at least news: has hired , a former Conyers & Ellison aide, as a top policy staffer. Riffle knows weeds of Medicare-for-All legislation as well as anyone I’ve met on the Hill, & helped me with this look at it:

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    Today's takeaways: -No sign of a slowdown... yet. -Slightly higher unemployment rate suggests more people are looking for work

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  9. Jan 3

    Waiting for final confirmation but seems that Hawaii’s , likely presidential candidate, is third and final no vote on the rules

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  10. Jan 3

    . (D-Mass) also voted yes on package with paygo rules Looking likely it’s AOC and Khanna alone here on this limb

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  11. Jan 3

    Ha wow so the board shows , AOC ally w/ very solid progressive cred, voting YES with rules package/Pelosi despite paygo rules. Rumor last night was she’d vote no as expected also a yes

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  12. Jan 3

    Update: , after more than a day of hemming and hawing on paygo rules, has voted for the rules package anyway

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  13. Jan 3

    Rep. John Katko, Republican from central NY, is (perhaps surprisingly) a yes on Pelosi’s rules package — joins fellow “Problem Solver” from upstate NY Tom Reed as reported yesterday

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    Jan 2

    On Maddow, says she would pull troops out of Syria (and unprompted, Afghanistan), says the metrics of what winning could possibly look like in both places hasn't been sufficiently explained.

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  16. Jan 3

    . is at Sen. Sanders ceremony after 2018 Senate re-election asking him if he supports Trump’s troop withdrawal from Syria

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  17. Jan 3

    The Senate Brooklyn Caucus

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  18. Jan 3

    Watching a half-dozen reporters in the House press gallery swarm around Rep the way they used to around Mark Meadows in the same space is a pretty striking change

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    Jan 3

    Scoop: House Dems will hold hearings on the Medicare for All bill, something that, amazingly, has never happened before. Rules and Budget scheduling hearings soon, with Pelosi's support.

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    16 Nov 2016

    Before sharing a Jamelle Bouie () article, check this thread. Offered without comment.

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