One of Biden’s many missed opportunities at triangulation. https://t.co/b3qjQMxvks

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 12, 2024

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April 11, 2024 at 09:10PM
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Remember Nikki Haley?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 12, 2024

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April 11, 2024 at 08:07PM
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Unfortunately the wage increases described in this chart seem to have peaked in 2023, as Biden’s army of cheap illegal workers surged into the labor market. https://t.co/Oe11rYFPeI https://t.co/0QSOHSKZwn

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 11, 2024 at 06:55PM
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See update in the replies. This is a real way to game the child “tax credit” system. But, unlike the “lookback” provision in the tax bill now before the Senate (i.e. 2 years of benefits for only one year of work) it’s not a *new* weakening of the work requirement. https://t.co/aAltW0bezA

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 11, 2024 at 04:24PM
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Revival of SATs has been stunningly swift, no? https://t.co/8kxb0vDtcF

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 11, 2024 at 04:10PM
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Leave Paul Krugman alone! https://t.co/60t3q7A8gf

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 11, 2024 at 03:10PM
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This is not the slippery “increasing border enforcement funding, comprehensive immigration reform” strategy the DCCC recommended….This is more like straight fake anti-Bidenism. Polling on issue must be really bad for Dems in Montana. https://t.co/LBO4Pihz43

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 11, 2024

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April 11, 2024 at 03:06PM
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.@Punchbowl on Dems’ plan to finesse the immigration issue in Nov.. Same old policies (“increasing border enforcement funding, comprehensive immigration reform [amnesty]”) plus blame for killing Lankford bill. https://t.co/fNkcU1NgzH

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 11, 2024 at 02:50PM
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.@NYTimes email subhed on OJ: “But his world was ruined after he was charged with killing his former wife and her friend.” https://t.co/CckpLZRSmC

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 11, 2024 at 02:28PM
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Update: Rector explains it on pages 10-11 of the report https://t.co/NntgF6JpaI It’s an existing way to game the system by claiming a kid who doesn’t live with you on your return, then sharing the $$. Seems to involve fraud (you’re supposed to live with the kid for half the… https://t.co/app2iaiQYJ

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 11:05PM
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She’s in the Eleanor Roosevelt wing of MAGA https://t.co/gyGPEfUDPj

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 09:32PM
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I’ve polished up the savage attack on @DamonLinker in my most recent Substack post [last item]. It’s not as bad as I thought! https://t.co/d1WP0dkBdI

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 09:28PM
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“Redemption” or revenge? https://t.co/zYZ5NBbZHI

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 08:54PM
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Depending on the fine print–e.g. is it Biden’s No-Work ‘child tax credit’?– Kari Lake has now endorsed most of the non-infrastructure/industry part of Biden’s kitchen-sink Build Back Better package. https://t.co/c6zXrQbQV8

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 08:50PM
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Yes, there are big distinctions between punishing deadbeat dads and requiring women to carry something in their body to term. Still! The deadbeat dad requirement seems very intrusive on family affairs. What’s left for the states? (Doesn’t bother me if answer is “zero”)

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 08:23PM
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Michael Lind notes: “Title IV-D of the Social Security Act of 1975 requires every American state to maintain a system punishing divorced parents who do not support their children.” If Feds can do THAT, can’t they require states to ban-say-last trimester abortions? (As against… https://t.co/AKwrrWam7L

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 08:18PM
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Hard to believe this sort of provision would have survived until this late stage. I’m not seeing it in the January version of the bill’s text here, but reading bill’s is tricky https://t.co/iK81pmNwU5

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Apr 11, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 08:04PM
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Rector also claims there is another loophole in the tax credit’s minimal work requirement (already weakened by a “2-yrs benefits for 1 year of work” provision)–a non-working single mom, say, “can transfer the work obligation to as many as two dozen other individuals.” https://t.co/EKn6gPqOAV

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 10, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 07:50PM
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“Blending tax relief and welfare transfers together in a single category is a bold act of political obfuscation. This subterfuge deliberately seeks to confuse the public”… https://t.co/DK28EFRjsH

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 10, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 07:43PM
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Robert Rector calculates that 91.5% of the new Child “Tax Credit” money (in the bill now before Senate) is NOT tax relief for working families. It’s direct government cash payments to people who owe no taxes. https://t.co/NntgF6JpaI

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 10, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 07:41PM
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Nov 8th–Biden considering executive order on the border. Trump assembling cabinet for incoming administration. https://t.co/RyVyvLg7JP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 10, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 07:23PM
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Biden’s Imminent Immigration Crackdown is becoming the “Infrastructure Week” of his administration. https://t.co/RyVyvLg7JP

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 10, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 05:52PM
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Which of course makes him look weaker when it doesn’t happen … https://t.co/o17GXkCn0T

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 10, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 05:51PM
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The loose-borders side in Biden WH has proven stronger than the pro-reset faction that’s leaking to @Axios has estimated. (Otherwise why tolerate Mayorkas?) What we need is a report on what these fights are about and who’s on what side. Hard to get. Easier to post one side’s… https://t.co/HhWySeDkuc

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 10, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 05:24PM
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“[W]hile it’s not final, such an executive order is likely by the end of April.” @Axios has spotted these “likely” immigration crackdowns before. Remember “The Great Reset” that they said was coming in Biden’s SOTU? https://t.co/zoxn9n8v11 Didn’t happen. https://t.co/RZ9U6S4JZN

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 10, 2024

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April 10, 2024 at 05:18PM
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