US Politics

Meanwhile, the administration is going to bat trying to get fucking Neera Tanden nominated to OMB, in a demonstration of where their actual priorities are.

Not a bad priority IMO. There’s no point in setting a good strategic direction if the implementation (where and how the money is actually spent) is out of your control.

I think the wage increase should be a major short term priority, and they’re not pushing harder because it hits some of their major donors’ pockets and because it’s putting themselves out on the furthest limb in recent history, and it could be a great success or a massive failure. No one wants to be deemed responsible for breaking the economy. -adding, but that’s what political capital is for.