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Congressional Republicans Take Dangerous Step Towards Ending Budget Enforcement

2 weeks ago | progressivepolicy.org | Ben Ritz |Alex Kilander |Max Sherrill

From our Budget Breakdown series highlighting problems in fiscal policy to inform the 2025 tax and budget debate. For months, Republican leaders have sought to direct the official scorekeepers at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to score their upcoming tax and spending bill against a “current policy” baseline.
Trump's Federal Workforce Orders Unleash Chaos Without Meaningful Savings

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.
Marshall for The Hill: With or Without DOGE, Democrats Need a Plan for Fixing the Government

Jan 17, 2025 | progressivepolicy.org | Max Sherrill

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.
The last big U.S. tariff increase: Herbert Hoover’s, in June 1930.

Jan 15, 2025 | progressivepolicy.org | Max Sherrill

FACT: The last big U.S. tariff increase: Herbert Hoover’s, in June 1930. 192913.5%193319.8% (modern-era peak)194012.5%19607.1%19803.1%20001.6%20101.4%20151.5%20202.8%20232.4%2025? *Trade-weighted” averages, dividing tariff revenue by goods import value. U.S. International Trade Commission, at https://www.usitc.gov/documents/dataweb/ave_table_1891_2023.pdf. WHAT THEY MEAN:The incoming administration has — it says — a plan for the first big U.S. tariff increase since Herbert Hoover’s in 1930.
Jacoby for Washington Monthly: In Ukraine’s Army, the “Heavenly Punishment” Battalion’s Morale is Unwavering, Its Blows Punishing

Jan 14, 2025 | progressivepolicy.org | Max Sherrill

A half dozen officers from Ukraine’s 54th Mechanized Brigade hover around the table in what was once a modest civilian home on the outskirts of Sloviansk, a small, war-torn city just behind the front line. The table is heaped with a holiday feast—meat, rice pilaf, salads, and even smoked salmon canapés. We’re waiting for the colonel, code-named Khors, a career officer in his early 50s with a Cossack haircut—shaved on the sides to show off a long, flaxen topknot. When he arrives, we sit down to eat.
Weinstein Jr. in The Boston Globe: How ‘administrative bloat’ swells staffing, costs at Massachusetts colleges

Jan 10, 2025 | progressivepolicy.org | Max Sherrill

Even as financial pressures on universities grow, experts said, the growth in administrators is unlikely to reverse in the short term. The Trump administration aims to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; boost the tax on college endowments; and reevaluate federal funding for universities — all of which could prompt schools to hire a cadre of attorneys and other professionals to stay in compliance, or fight back.
Manno for Forbes: K-12 Public Education’s Pandemic Hangover Lasts Into 2025

Jan 9, 2025 | progressivepolicy.org | Max Sherrill

As we begin 2025, the pandemic disruption to K-12 public schools continues to haunt America’s young people. Some of its effects result from school closures, while others predate the pandemic but were made worse by these closures. “We’re in the midst of an education depression. By depression, I mean an extended era of shrinking outcomes and opportunity. This goes far beyond the pandemic,” writes Tim Daly in The Education Daly.
PPI Comments on Competition in Air Transportation

Jan 7, 2025 | progressivepolicy.org | Alyssa Brown

The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) submits these comments in response to the Request for Information (RFI) issued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on October 24, 2024, in docket number ATR 103. The RFI seeks information on the “state of competition” in the air transportation industry. PPI’s comments address specific questions in the RFI that relate to markets for passenger air service (“passenger service”).
Marshall in The New York Times: Trump’s Return Is a Civil Society Failure

Jan 7, 2025 | progressivepolicy.org | Max Sherrill

A post-election YouGov poll commissioned by the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist Democratic think tank, sent a clear message to party loyalists. YouGov asked 5,098 working-class voters (defined as those without college degrees), including detailed analyses of voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, and also asked 881 people in the national sample, to evaluate the political parties on measures of trust and commitment.
Remembering Another Date That Will Live in Infamy

Jan 6, 2025 | progressivepolicy.org | Max Sherrill

Today marks the fourth anniversary of a shameful first in the 236-year old saga of American democracy — the Jan. 6, 2021 plot to overturn a U.S. presidential election and block the peaceful transition of power. As then-Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell told Congress and the nation, the author of this attempted coup was then-President Donald Trump, whom Biden had handily defeated in the 2020 election.