David Dayen

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    5 Nov 2020

    We have updated our Day One Agenda page to highlight the stories from our original issue from last September up front. See everything that a Biden administration can get done without needing new legislation!

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  2. 40 minutes ago

    And here's the report itself. If CBO follows this logic, it would be very hard for the Senate parliamentarian to say that a measure that saves hundreds of billions of dollars in the 10-year budget window has no budgetary impact.

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  3. 43 minutes ago

    This is the report I was talking about in this morning's First100.

    New: A $15 minimum wage would save taxpayers $65.4 billion a year including: -$32 billion in reduced spending -$21.2 billion in more revenue -12.2 billion in Social Security expenditures If that's not a direct impact on the budget, I don't know what is.
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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    Great article from the about the bait&switch for prop22 and suggests buyers remorse. But don’t believe the industry PR that the majority of drivers voted for it. polled our 20k membership and only 12% voted yes.

    “I voted for the ballot measure because I thought it’d help drivers like me. Now I’m out of a job,” Less than a month after Prop 22 became law in California, some app-based drivers regret their yes vote that helped approve the ballot initiative.
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  5. 2 hours ago

    The precedent is 2018, when Steve King got kicked off his committees. Republicans were willing to do that themselves. Not so anymore.

    New on : Today, Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Ted Deutch, and Jahana Hayes are introducing a privileged resolution to kick Majorie Taylor Greene off of her committee assignments on the House Education and Labor Committee and Budget Committee. Via
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  6. 2 hours ago

    Michael Barr's supporters would like you to know that he protested apartheid in South Africa. He also thinks Nazis are "really bad," I've been told-

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Inbox: Stacey Abrams speaking at Google-funded "California Conference for Women" in March

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  8. 3 hours ago

    First 100: How the Congressional Budget Office May Determine Wages for 32 Million Workers -

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  9. 3 hours ago

    Why Katie Porter Isn’t on the House Financial Services Committee -

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  10. 3 hours ago

    First 100: Democrats Reconcile Themselves to Reconciliation -

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  11. 3 hours ago

    And here's with an interesting point: the US population has doubled but the number of federal employees haven't budged. She argues for "surge hiring" to manage current crises.

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  12. 3 hours ago

    Here's on the corporate and Republican money that went into the Capitol Riot.

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    3 hours ago

    This is extremely meaningful in the current moment. Going forward, major reforms are needed so that “budgetary impacts” are no longer the guiding metric.

    If you factor that in, the minimum wage increase has a significant budget impact, possibly enough for the Senate parliamentarian to allow it in reconciliation. So CBO has wages of 32 million people in its hands.
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  14. 3 hours ago

    If you factor that in, the minimum wage increase has a significant budget impact, possibly enough for the Senate parliamentarian to allow it in reconciliation. So CBO has wages of 32 million people in its hands.

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  15. 3 hours ago

    When CBO scored the $15 min wage in 2019, they only looked at the direct impact of how much more government would have to pay workers & contractrs. They didn't look at effects on lower safety net program utilization and higher tax revenue.

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  16. 3 hours ago

    First 100 today is about budget reconciliation on the Biden relief plan. The big question is whether the minimum wage increase will be included. And that question could largely be decided by what the Congressional Budget Office has to say about it.

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  17. 3 hours ago

    Which one of you put me on the Marjorie Taylor Greene press list?

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    4 hours ago
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    Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) calls for large-scale stimulus: "Trying to be per se fiscally responsible at this point in time ... if we actually throw away some money right now, so what?"

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    3 hours ago

    Announcement from -- HHS/Defense approving a new over-the-counter, self-administered COVID test. Says they are 95% accurate, results within 15 minutes.

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    5 hours ago

    It's so much like the 1920s, when there was a speculative bubble for Florida real estate, including ads for land around a town, Nettie, that did not in fact exist. Ragtime crypto!

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    5 hours ago

    Kamala Harris joins the late Lady Di's crusade against abandoned land mines

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