Ronald Brownstein

“The prices of parts commonly damaged in collisions, such as hoods, fenders & lights, stand to rise further starting (in) ~3 months…When cars cost more and fixing them costs more, insurance companies’ expenses increase, so tariffs are expected to raise auto-insurance premiums”

Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein

Another demand of swing voters finally realized! “President Trump’s auto tariffs won’t just make buying a car more expensive. They would make simply owning a car more expensive, too.” https://t.co/sLx5eTT7Rb

Another demand of swing voters finally realized! “President Trump’s auto tariffs won’t just make buying a car more expensive. They would make simply owning a car more expensive, too.” https://t.co/sLx5eTT7Rb

RT @JustinWolfers: Inflation expectations have never risen this far, this fast.

Further evidence Trump's greatest 1st term strength is now his greatest 2nd term vulnerability: "Consumer sentiment plunged 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, U of Michigan said in its survey released Friday, the 2nd-lowest reading on records back to 1952" per @CNN

Is there anything that sounds more like the first day of spring than Penny Lane? Only rival: Here Comes the Sun

Bottom four income categories that all face losses from Trump's combined policies include households earning up to 125k in income. Only higher gains. Per @AP VoteCast, Trump won voters from 25-100k in income, losing those above & below. His agenda hits his core voters the hardest

Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein

@CenterOnBudget does the triple axel to calculate how Trump's tax cuts spending cuts & tariffs hit households of different incomes. The bottom 80% lose ground overall, w/the lowest 40% facing big percentage losses. Can he hold his coalition w/this agenda? https://t.co/9eP8ylRTYy

Even before COVID, all of Trump's efforts from 1/17 to 1/20 added ~400k more manufacturing jobs, to 12.7m. That shrank to 12.1m when he left; Biden's many efforts got it back to 12.7m when he left. Post WWII high is 19.7m. That leaves a lot of men who must emasculate for a living

Joan Walsh @joanwalsh

Trump’s tariff pause will irritate numbskulls like Fox Jess Watters, who need manufacturing jobs to become real men. “When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman," he said. https://t.co/DdIYL1o7ZN

RT @KenHollaren: @RonBrownstein @JacksonBrowne @Janefonda @TheNormanLear This book finally made it to the top of my queue. Brilliantly wr…

RT @yeselson: Yup. Shockingly bad political instincts by Whitmer, who undercut her own brassy, no bs brand and let Trump troll and trap her…

The Lando Calrissian principle may apply equally to bending the knee (to mix fantasy metaphors) to Trump as it does to Darth Vader: “This deal is getting worse all the time.” https://t.co/NiytjsICjI via @NYTimes

Noted: "Nessel did not sharply criticize Whitmer, but made clear that she thinks efforts to break bread w/ Trump are futile “I think that when we treat him like he is a normal president and by normalizing his activities...it sends the wrong message to the American people"

Dana Nessel @dananessel

Why I refuse to normalize this president: Appeasement is not workable strategy with a fascist. https://t.co/dXO1789PAV

I'm guessing the markets, like everyone else watching, do not consider the GOP-controlled Congress a meaningful influence on what Trump does or does not do, which is, after all, what's driving down the markets.

Burgess Everett @burgessev

Funny quote from Sen. Lummis to @Eleanor_Mueller “I think it helps that the Congress is getting out of here ... two weeks where we’re not a distraction is a positive thing. So I think the markets might settle a little.” https://t.co/1lJcmhEkSh

Paging @SenBillCassidy

S.E. Cupp @secupp

This is so wrong, so irresponsible, and so disappointing.

RT @PeterHamby: I guess the media still hasn't read Art of the Deal https://t.co/fJkqEdlgmD

“My sense is that the (US) economy is still likely to fall into recession, given the level of simultaneous shocks it’s absorbed,” said Joe Brusuelas chief economist at RSM. “All this does is postpone...what will likely be a series of punitive import taxes put on US trade allies.”

Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein

Its not just China: "Trump’s universal 10% tariff remains in place, as do 25% tariffs on auto imports, 25% tariffs on steel/aluminum & 25% on some goods from Canada/Mexico. Trump pledged additional tariffs on [drugs], lumber, semiconductors & copper." https://t.co/asWQjTqH5B

Its not just China: "Trump’s universal 10% tariff remains in place, as do 25% tariffs on auto imports, 25% tariffs on steel/aluminum & 25% on some goods from Canada/Mexico. Trump pledged additional tariffs on [drugs], lumber, semiconductors & copper." https://t.co/asWQjTqH5B

RT @jburnmurdoch: Economic uncertainty update: The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring a new maverick advisor e…