Lucas Holtz

• Prices from today's announcement alone rise by 1.3%, a loss in purchasing power of $2,100 per household annually in 2024$ on average. All 2025 tariffs raise prices by 2.3%, a $3,800 average loss.

• The April 2nd announcement shaves -0.5pp off 2025 GDP real growth (cont.)
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Another entry in "sometimes poll findings are extremely wording sensitive, and sometimes there's a very clear throughline in sentiment regardless of phrasing"

(Via: www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/p..., www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...)

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Trump and Musk have cut vital programs at the VA, leaving many veterans in crisis abandoned. Our veterans answered the call, but now nobody will answer theirs.

Maybe X is running on Tesla batteries.

This is very obviously going to be a protection racket, where Trump can at the stroke of a pen destroy or save your business depending on how compliant you are.

Ronald Reagan: Peace through strength

Donald Trump: Peace through surrender

Let’s break this down
- Trump & Vance lie about the war
- Zelensky tries to fact check

Vance wants to look like a tough guy so he:
- lies about Putin’s invasion painting him as a victim
- lies about Ukraine war ops
- lies that Zelensky hasn’t thanked US for aid (he has 1000x)

Bears repeating that social security is incredibly INCREDIBLY efficient to run. Its overhead costs are basically zero when you consider the size of the undertaking and the genuine benefits delivered. If anyone was interested in improving govt efficiency, the SSA would be their model not their target

She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics. Then came DOGE.

People’s reactions to these stories tend to be of the leopards-eating-faces variety but this is a great piece of reporting in part about how voters very disconnected from politics make their choices.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)?

A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

After the first measles death of a child HHS Secretary Kennedy seemed to downplay the Texas outbreak saying outbreaks were "not unusual," and the 18 kids hospitalized were "mainly for quarantine." A pediatrician on the ground said they couldn't breathe. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Ruben Gallegos' Sister Soulja moment Sometimes the most powerful way of saying what you're for means making it clear what you're against.

US Senator Ruben Gallegos is having a Sistah Souljah moment with his interview on The Daily podcast today.

Democrats owe him a debt of gratitude.
open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

A conspiracy theorist went on Joe Rogan ranting about dismantling USAID & Musk followed. Musk has RT’d him 160 times in the last year

90% of USAID’s payments go to US businesses and faith-based orgs. The Elon-MAGA agenda is to ransack government and destroy American business