Catherine Rampell
Opinion Columnist at The Washington Post
Special Correspondent at PBS NewsHour
Evening Co-Host at The Weekend Show
MSNBC anchor/co-host of The Weekend: Primetime, Sat/Sun 6-9pm. Washington Post syndicated op-ed columnist. More active at the cerulean place these days.
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1 week ago |
washingtonpost.com | Catherine Rampell
Trump might become the most pro-illegal immigration president ever (washingtonpost.com) Trump might become the most pro-illegal immigration president ever By Catherine Rampell 2025053011151400 You might not have noticed it, but last week the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States surged by 350,000. Don't worry, an army of gangbangers and other criminals didn't charge the border.
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1 week ago |
keysnews.com | Catherine Rampell
The party of pronatalism and motherhood medals has just escalated its war on children. The GOP’s budget bill slashes the safety net to fund regressive tax cuts. That much you might already know. But this is not a mere transfer of wealth from poor to rich; in many ways, it’s also a transfer of wealth from young to old. That is, many of the “pay-fors” in this bill disproportionately hurt babies and children.
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2 weeks ago |
keysnews.com | Catherine Rampell
President Donald Trump has opened a multi-front trade war with every jurisdiction on Earth (including some uninhabited islands). So, perhaps it was inevitable that he would start demanding wartime sacrifices from his fellow patriots. Other countries have done so already. Chinese officials, for instance, suggest they have the upper hand given their populace’s willingness to endure hardship for the greater good.
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2 weeks ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Catherine Rampell
It’s never a great time to purge millions of Americans from critical safety-net services. But if we are indeed barreling toward recession, as many economists predict, now is an especially bad time. It would mean more Americans are denied medical and food assistance precisely when they need it most — and that any coming downturn could be particularly vicious and long. Republicans desperately want to cut taxes, with the largest benefits going to higher-income households and businesses.
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Catherine Rampell
The pronatalist party escalates its war on children (washingtonpost.com) The pronatalist party escalates its war on children By Catherine Rampell 2025051615015500 The party of pronatalism and motherhood medals has just escalated its war on children. The GOP's budget bill slashes the safety net to fund regressive tax cuts. That much you might already know.
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GOP's mutually exclusive constraints for their tax-and-budget bill: *cut taxes *cut spending (Medicaid, SNAP) *don't tick off their constituents, who would absolutely be hurt by Medicaid/SNAP cuts *don't raise debt limit https://t.co/r92ZHhinV7
RT @washingtonpost: Pope Leo XIV, the newly elected pontiff, must answer to at least one more higher power: the IRS. https://t.co/QcWqzizYI9
145% tariffs on baby strollers and dolls: OK 25% tariffs on Rolls Royces & Bentleys: much too high, cut those poor Bentley buyers a break
Trump says he personally intervened in the UK-US trade talks to take tariffs from 25 to 10 on British autos, citing Rolls Royce, Jaguars & Bentleys Says these are "some very special cars ... That's really handmade stuff ... I said yeah let's help them out with that one - that's
