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assuming defense spending remains flat, the $3.5 trillion stimulus will be equal to roughly 4.5 years of defense spending. but defense bills have gone up even as the wars have drawn down, so it's likely the big scary once-in-a-decade stimulus bill will be like 3-4 routine ndaas.

for me the lack of any public pressure on this is the most interesting part of all of this. dems are proposing a $3.5 trillion spending bill and the gop grassroots energy is more focused on dominion voting machines and how biden performs in oval office gaggles

in light of the escape/near-escape of people incarcerated for exercising the right to move, i wanted to re-up this useful article from about cuban haitian resistance uprising in immigration jails in the early 1980s.

new: house budget chair told me and his staff has come to the conclusion there is not enough time to alter the reconciliation bill or write a stand alone bill to lift the debt ceiling this could complicate next month as we inch closer to deadline

from the beginning, dem leaders and have been clear: they will not advance the infrastructure bill without also passing bold climate legislation through reconciliation. #noclimatenodeal