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2 months ago | 
progressivepolicy.org | Ed Gresser |Will Marshall |Max Sherrill
From our Budget Breakdown series highlighting problems in fiscal policy to inform the 2025 tax and budget debate. President Trump spent the first full week of his second term in office rolling out a series of executive actions aimed at radically reshaping the federal workforce.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thehill.com | Will Marshall
It’s not hard to lampoon DOGE, the misnamed “Department of Government Efficiency” sprung from the fevered brains of President-elect Donald Trump’s favorite tech oligarchs, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The DOGE has grand ambitions — eliminating government regulations, jobs and agencies and slashing federal spending by $2 trillion — but no powers. It won’t be a government department or even a formal advisory committee, say Musk and Ramaswamy.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Will Marshall
Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct the title of a book. We regret the error. It’s not hard to lampoon DOGE, the misnamed “Department of Government Efficiency” sprung from the fevered brains of President-elect Donald Trump’s favorite tech oligarchs, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The DOGE has grand ambitions — eliminating government regulations, jobs and agencies and slashing federal spending by $2 trillion — but no powers.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Will Marshall
Donald Trump’s sweeping presidential victory this month proved that his 2016 win was no fluke. Like his populist-right counterparts in Europe, Trump is riding a working-class revolt against governing elites — a spreading brushfire the Biden-Harris administration failed to comprehend and effectively counter.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Will Marshall
Donald Trump’s sweeping presidential victory this month proved that his 2016 win was no fluke. Like his populist-right counterparts in Europe, Trump is riding a working-class revolt against governing elites — a spreading brushfire the Biden-Harris administration failed to comprehend and effectively counter.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Will Marshall
Having fired Donald Trump in 2020, U.S. voters did an about-face Tuesday and sent him back to the White House. It was a remarkable political rebound, but one that owed as much to the Democratic Party’s weakness as it did to Trump’s strengths. Despite heavily outspending her opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris carried not one battleground state in failing to reassemble the solid anti-Trump majority of four years ago.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Will Marshall
A healthy U.S. economy is finally emerging from inflation’s shadow, enabling Americans to see and feel its underlying strengths. Is the good news coming in time to give Vice President Kamala Harris a boost in the November election? Normally, a vibrant economy lifts political incumbents, but polls show U.S. voters are still preoccupied with high living costs. Harris offers a slew of proposals for driving down the cost of housing, food, health care and other necessities.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Will Marshall
A healthy U.S. economy is finally emerging from inflation’s shadow, enabling Americans to see and feel its underlying strengths. Is the good news coming in time to give Vice President Kamala Harris a boost in the November election? Normally, a vibrant economy lifts political incumbents, but polls show U.S. voters are still preoccupied with high living costs. Harris offers a slew of proposals for driving down the cost of housing, food, health care and other necessities.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
progressivepolicy.org | Will Marshall
By Will MarshallAs Kamala Harris and Donald Trump sprint toward the finish of the shortened 2024 presidential race, it is time to ask: What issue should be foremost in U.S. voters’ minds when they cast their ballots? It’s not the cost of living, immigration, abortion or foreign wars, though all are critically important.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Will Marshall
As Kamala Harris and Donald Trump sprint toward the finish of the shortened 2024 presidential race, it is time to ask: What issue should be foremost in U.S. voters’ minds when they cast their ballots? It’s not the cost of living, immigration, abortion or foreign wars, though all are critically important.
