Sahil Kapur

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

Also, the original Social Security and Medicare bills each won some Republican votes. That’s not in the cards for Biden’s social safety net bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @spettypi: After a call with Manchin and a meeting with Jayapal Monday, Biden has another day of meetings with Hill Democrats. White Hou… — PolitiTweet.org

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Thompson/Cheney on Trump lawsuit: “Precedent and law are on our side… It’s hard to imagine a more compelling public interest than trying to get answers about an attack on our democracy and an attempt to overturn the results of an election.” https://t.co/K6b4cFVc41 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Brian_Riedl @Cecilia18558710 @zakarasm why ‘08? can we take that chart back to 2000 or ‘01 pre Iraq/Afghan wars — PolitiTweet.org

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@Brian_Riedl @Cecilia18558710 @zakarasm are you saying the growth in the military budget in the last few decades has been mainly abt inflation/costs? and if mil spending was boosted sharply during wars that are now over, what’s your theory on whether that topline should be preserved or cut? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KyleAlexStewart: Two more House Democrats — @USRepMikeDoyle, D-Pa., and @RepDavidEPrice, D-N.C., — announced Monday they won't seek re-… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Brian_Riedl @ThomasW75634076 not really Brian. my analogy was about the cost of two bills, not about entire sections of the federal budget — PolitiTweet.org

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Donald Trump just released a statement lashing out at @SenBillCassidy, labeling him “Wacky Bill” and complaining about the senator’s vote to convict him. (Cassidy just got re-elected last year and is safe in his seat until 2026.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden economic agenda may be mired in Democratic infighting, but his judicial project is not. He’s currently outpacing every president since Richard Nixon on confirmation of US circuit court judges (although that pace will be hard to maintain). https://t.co/T7F4NmgYUs — PolitiTweet.org

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New —> Joe Biden is quietly making history on the courts Senate just confirmed his fifth circuit judge with a public defender background, matching Obama’s number over 8 years. Part of a White House push to rewrite the playbook for who gets to be a judge. https://t.co/T7F4NmgYUs — PolitiTweet.org

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@Brian_Riedl @Cecilia18558710 @zakarasm not sure I understand connecting military $ to GDP %. to what extent is the public policy need for raising the former linked to the latter? — PolitiTweet.org

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Jan. 6 committee just released its report seeking a criminal contempt referral for Steve Bannon, which it will review tomorrow in a meeting >> https://t.co/HErU2xwnzx — PolitiTweet.org

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@LPDonovan Michelle Obama is high on that list — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenjySarlin @TheStalwart right. no doubt there’d still be issues but not quite like this. I think a 52-vote D senate would mean more ppl flexing and making public demands. 50 votes means everyone drawing a line is seen as threatening to sink Biden’s agenda. whole diff incentive structure — PolitiTweet.org

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Chuck Schumer just teed up a Senate vote Wednesday on the Freedom To Vote Act, the Democrats’ sweeping voting rights compromise designed to win over @Sen_JoeManchin. Needs 60 to defeat a filibuster. Not clear it has any Republican support. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheStalwart a fascinating what-if given the distance between Sinema/Manchin and the other 48, I’d guess the optimum l’ship strategy w 52 votes would be to negotiate between the 50 and let those 2 know it happens with or without them to get them to table. sort of like Rs did w Corker on TCJA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @frankthorp: Well, this just happened outside the US Capitol: https://t.co/A08M8eBsd8 — PolitiTweet.org

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To be clear, this is not about aggregate defense vs. non-defense spending (the latter comfortably exceeds the former, as this chart below via CBPP shows). My point is about 1-year vs. 10-year baselines, which can be conflated, when discussing the price tag on bills. https://t.co/fS4jQWVl8L — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GarrettHaake: NEWS: @Sen_JoeManchin and progressive leader @RepJayapal met in person today for the first time to discuss the Build Back… — PolitiTweet.org

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New from @PeteWilliamsNBC: Trump sues Jan. 6 committee, National Archives seeking to block handover of documents https://t.co/UyTRlrrRC5 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Brian_Riedl different points! I’m comparing the contents of two specific bills because ppl confuse 1y and 10y baselines, not aggregate defense vs nondefense $ — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcGoldwein I appreciate the snark-free clarification! I see your argument and my point, as I just mentioned to you, is simply in comparing the contents of one bill to another. What baseline they should be set against is another q — PolitiTweet.org

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Some context on price tags: The $725.8 billion defense spending bill is for 1 year. The $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan is over 10 years. Apples to apples, Biden's economic and social policy bill is less than half of what Congress wants to spend on the Pentagon. — PolitiTweet.org

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According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, the $725.8 billion military spending bill for FY2022 is an increase of $29.3 billion over the FY2021 enacted level. — PolitiTweet.org

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Significant chunks of the military budget can best be understood as a federal jobs program — creating weapons the Pentagon says it doesn't need but which employ the constituents of influential lawmakers. Here's a good example via @johnmdonnelly: https://t.co/36HvxROHZ5 https://t.co/ITWdihyFq5 — PolitiTweet.org

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The U.S. is growing the military budget after ending the longest war in its history. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @adamkotsko: Which Nirvana album is superior? — PolitiTweet.org

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Another Larry Summers shoutout from Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor to criticize Biden's economic agenda. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@PressSec on BBB: "The president is certainly feeling an urgency to move things forward, to get things done. I think you've seen that urgency echoed by members on the Hill who agree that time is not unending here and we're eager to move forward with a unified path." — PolitiTweet.org

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Same — PolitiTweet.org