Emine Yucel

1 month ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Emine Yucel

Senate Republican leadership released the legislative text for their second attempt at a budget resolution Wednesday afternoon, signaling that despite several points of contention within the party, they might have the votes to pass a so-called compromise blueprint. The newly released budget resolution indicates that the Republican leadership is plowing ahead with their plan to utilize an unprecedented “budget gimmick” to make portions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent.

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The story of National Security Adviser Mike Walz’s unbelievable SNAFU in adding an Atlantic journalist to a Signal group chat where top government officials spelled out their live-action war plans actually seems to be breaking through. Some combination of the utter buffoonery, text screengrabs and the 21st century of it all has given the story staying power. It’s showing up in polls, data, even online ad campaigns.

1 month ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Emine Yucel

Congressional Republican leaders are in the midst of a Trump-imposed three-week stretch where they think they can come up with a compromise budget resolution that Republicans in both chambers will get behind by Easter recess. That would unlock the reconciliation process so Republicans can eventually push through elements of President Trump’s fiscal agenda, including border security, energy and tax reform.

1 month ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Emine Yucel

House Democrats who spoke to TPM on Tuesday were stunned and floored by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) raising the possibility of Congress eliminating some federal courts, as part of he and House Republicans’ ongoing interest in punishing judges who dare to rule against the Trump administration. “That is outrageous,” House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told TPM in response to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s remarks Tuesday.

1 month ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Nicole Lafond |Kate Riga |Khaya Himmelman |Emine Yucel

Much of what the Trump administration has done during the lawless rampage that has been its first two months has felt haphazard, reckless, at times almost random in nature — all of which, of course, is by design. It’s become well understood in the years since the MAGA movement’s takeover of the Republican Party that the cruelty — and, often, the accompanying chaos — is the point.