Today, Chambers feels vindicated. If anything, Chambers says, the country's politics have become even more fractious from the time he and his colleagues made the call to downgrade the U.S.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/05/1179114631/credit-ratings-aaa-debt-ceiling-limit-biden-house-republicans

Choose your Ted Lasso character

I’m that one guy who only shows up to refer to himself being French

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The Center for American Progress, a center-left think tank, found in a recent report that debt as a percent of the U.S. economy would be falling without the tax cuts initiated by the two most recent GOP presidents. Revenue has been significantly lower than nonpartisan forecasters projected before the tax cuts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/15/debt-ceiling-negotiations-deadline-default/

“Barring a Franklin Roosevelt-like run of election victories, the only option #Democrats have to rein the #supremecourt in as a tool of the most reactionary forces in our society is to try to change its size and structure.”

From Jamelle Bouie

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/opinion/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-legitimacy.html?smid=url-share

What to know about #EPA’s looming power plant rules

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/10/4-takeaways-epa-carbon-rules-power-plants-00095866

That was the real game of Bitey

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