@BulwarkOnline Economics Editor. @MSNOWNews (formerly known as MSNBC) Anchor. In prior lives: WaPo, NYT, CNN, NewsHour. Econ, politics, tax, theater, etc.
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Catherine Rampell retweeted
Striking detail in the big NYT piece on Taiwanese families adjusting to working at the huge new TSMC chip plant in Arizona: their surprise at the lack of rigor in US schools.
Catherine Rampell retweeted
NEW: I obtained the full Trumbull County file for Amy Acton's stepfather's 1974 charge which shows that he was indicted for incest involving his 16-year-old biological daughter in 1973. The sheriff was then unable to locate him to serve him a summons in the county and nothing further happened in the case.
Donna Arthur, featured in Vivek Ramaswamy's still-running campaign ad, married Cledith the next year in a neighboring county.
Catherine Rampell retweeted
"The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms to protect little girls [are] smearing an actual child rape survivor," writes @crampell.
It sums up "the broader Trump agenda: professing support for the vulnerable while shielding their abusers." thebulwark.com/p/trump-cruel…
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NEW: It's not just Amy Acton. Trump has been dismissive or cruel or damaging to victims of sexual assault whether personally or as a matter of policy. A must read on the moment from @crampell
thebulwark.com/p/trump-cruel…
Trump’s response to the Ramaswamy ad is a reminder of how his admin has treated survivors of abuse. Beyond Acton, beyond Epstein's victims, there are thousands of other kids & domestic violence victims whose lives have been harmed by Trump policy
thebulwark.com/p/trump-cruel…
Catherine Rampell retweeted
“It is a microcosm of the broader Trump agenda: professing support for the vulnerable while shielding their abusers.”
@crampell on Trump’s embrace of Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad:
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Important from @crampell.
"That Trump would now choose to try to discredit a child sex-crime victim is unsurprising. He was a close friend of Epstein...He has no qualms about throwing abuse survivors under the bus if doing so helps him politically."
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This is strange. I was told the foreign countries pay the tariffs, so why would this help in the election?
The U.S. is expected to remove 50% tariffs on some Canadian products in a bid to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections wsj.com/politics/policy/trum… via @WSJ
The U.S. is expected to remove 50% tariffs on some Canadian products in a bid to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections wsj.com/politics/policy/trum… via @WSJ
Poll: Low-information voters have turned hardest against Trump and the GOP, by @gelliottmorris open.substack.com/pub/gellio…
had a blast talking with my pal @NatashaRSarin about who is to blame for the current economy, and what can be done to fix it nytimes.com/2026/10/23/opini…
Catherine Rampell retweeted
NEW: Mike Collins previously suggested hanging U.S. military and political leaders from a helicopter and joked about pushing Pelosi out of a plane. We also uncovered another antisemitic post from a business recently launched by his son-in-law. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/23/p…
Catherine Rampell retweeted
SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
It's ranked-choice voting, the design most robust to this scheme. Voters can just vote for all the Dan Sullivans and zero Mary Peltolas
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I mean, if Starshield can be throttled in Ukraine, can it also be throttled in the Persian Gulf or around Taiwan if Musk disagrees with this or that military operation? The mystery of the last week certainly raises the question.
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The far right would like you to think that Norman Rockwell was a sort of friendly neighborhood white nationalist. The thing is, he was nothing of the sort. From the archives, @crampell interviews Daisy Rockwell:
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Airfares will not return to pre-Iran war levels, American Airlines warns ft.com/content/d114ce00-f30d… via @ft
President Trump called Elon Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on a military-grade version of Starlink in Ukraine that the SpaceX chief throttled, U.S. officials said wsj.com/world/trump-called-m… via @WSJ
Catherine Rampell retweeted
This is the standard way to score tax policy. You score the law as written (in this case a one-time wealth tax) and the behavioral consequences from that law (people worried it will last moving).
There are arguments against that approach. But is not “highly inappropriate” or “dishonest” to do what JCT or any other neutral body would do.
Let’s be clear: this is a highly inappropriate way to model the effect of Prop 40 on taxpayer behavior.
For one, it’s a basic violation of rational expectations, a cornerstone of modern economics.
In Jaros and @joshrauh world, the billionaires act irrationally: they respond to a policy that does not exist and will never exist.
Economics students around the world are taught this is not an appropriate way to model behavior — but apparently in this context (fighting Prop 40) it’s OK.