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"What doesn’t make any of these stories is that the Parliamentarian’s serial rejection of one after another policy in the Big Ugly came as a result of a lot of work from Democratic staffers who successfully argued that the provisions were extraneous to the bill."

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Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Jun 27, 2025

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"[N]ews outlets treat Donald Trump’s mere act of saying something as news" and "doing so wildly distorts the workings of what democracy America has left."

From
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/27/how-the-newslettification-of-news-reifies-trumps-power-rather-than-exposing-his-lies/

How the Newslettification of News Reifies Trump's Power Rather than Exposing His Lies - emptywheel

The NYT's newsletter structure turned Donald Trump, not Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, the primary actor in MacDonough's serial rulings throwing out many of the worst provisions of the Big Ugly reconciliation bill.

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