Matt Bennett

My god, we are beclowning ourselves before the entire world. It’s so embarrassing.

"I would rather pick somebody out of a crowd at a Washington Wizards game to run monetary policy than hand it over to Donald Trump," said @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social.

With markets plummeting, prices rising, and 401Ks tanking from his tariffs, Trump has no place to question Fed Chair Powell.

well mission accomplished buddy

“Sickening and heartbreaking”

Someone who was at the Marge Greene town hall where folks who dissented were arrested/targeted/tased by police — who has voted for both parties — writes about what she saw 👇🏽

Fawning toady gets seat in press room as North Korea-style White House makeover continues. Pretty soon they’ll be bringing in cases of cognac and DVDs of 80s movies.

“We’ve got to focus on the ways that Donald Trump is intentionally taking steps that will hurt people...We don’t need to be having academic conversations about the pareto-optimized merits of various trade schemes," @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social told HuffPost. Read why dems must focus on Trump's chaos.⬇️

The GOP budget doesn't just raise the deficit by trillions, it aims to cut $800B from Medicaid.

63% of Americans in nursing homes are on Medicaid. "If you have somebody you love going to or in a nursing home, chances are they could be deeply affected," says @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social.

The critical thing here is Trump's tariffs wouldn't be possible without an extraordinary abuse of power on his part. The national emergency rationale is likely illegal. The lawlessness and the economic havoc are the same story.

(h/t @ilyasomin.bsky.social)

newrepublic.com/article/1936...

Wow, you really got me there. Touche.

Democrats: The market is crashing. Prices will soon be skyrocketing. Critical imports are being cut off.

We must direct all our fire in one direction: “Trump did this. To you. On purpose. For no reason.”

Not “tariffs are sometimes good.” Not “the rich are getting richer.”

That is not the implication of that quote. Like at all. Not even a little bit.

Every single part of this sentence is insane.

Just ridiculous. Sometimes it’s hard to separate the malevolence from the stupidity with this administration, but this is definitely the latter.

Can Democrats find their way out of the wilderness? NPR's Juana Summers talks to Bennett from the centrist think tank Third Way, about what he heard from leaders in the Democratic party and what he thinks about Trump's joint session of Congress speech.

“Nobody went to the polls and voted to stop research in Alzheimer's or cancer. Nobody wanted to cut the park service employees that clean the bathrooms or air traffic controllers, or veterans who are trying to help other veterans in crisis.” @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

Trump leaning into protecting cops while standing in the House chamber is really something to behold.

God I wish I was not professionally obligated to watch this jackass lie for two hours.

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start

Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

I'm married to a Mainer and spend a lot of time there. You know what Mainers really don't like? People from away pushing them around.

"This is the essence of chaos," @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social says on @cnn.com. Trump and Musk are firing essential personnel, people that do things like air safety, fight wildfires, park rangers, keep them safe from avian flu, research cancer & Alzheimers—people that Americans want on the job.

The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

This is what passes for bold independent thinking in the MAGA GOP.

Mr Garcia, I have drafted an appropriate response for you. You're welcome.

WTAF is this guy talking about? I get that Trump doesn't like experts, but maybe someone who understands at least undergraduate-level economics should be running the National Economic Council.

Neera Tanden, a Leading Anti-Trump Voice, Returns to Center for American Progress Neera Tanden, a fierce antagonist to President Trump during his first administration, will again lead the Center for American Progress, a major engine of Democratic policy in Washington.

This is great news for @americanprogress.bsky.social. No one does it better than @neeratanden.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

Seeking a Mar-a-Lago Vibe, Trump Considers Paving Over Grass in Rose Garden The president has been discussing plans to rip up the grass in one of the White House’s most iconic locations and put in a hard surface to serve as a patio like the one at his Florida home and club.

I get that this is item 4,567 on a prioritized list of hideous Trump/Musk depredations. But I served in that place, and watching Trump destroy it, both physically and metaphorically, is gut-wrenching.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...

“Elon Musk is firing military veteran firefighters for no reason” is the biggest slam dunk in political messaging history, Dems should be shouting it into the world’s biggest bullhorn from the top of the Washington Monument.

More Democrats Favor Party Moderation Than in Past A 45% plurality of Democrats say they would like their party to become more moderate, while a similar 43% plurality of Republicans prefer that their party maintain its current ideological bent.

You don't say.

news.gallup.com/poll/656636/...

Question for Kai and other smart business reporters: how will markets react if Elon Musk and his child crusaders take over BLS and mess with the economic data?