Vice President of Federal Tax Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Joined May 2013
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Chuck Marr retweeted
Doubt the numbers? Here's what Elon's Grok says about Elon's destruction of USAID:
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Rising real net worth for people over their lifetime is par for the course. The typical Baby Boomer is indeed doing better than prior generations at the same age. But, so too is the typical Millennial and Gen-Xer.
The median of the wealth held by 65-plus Americans is 47x that of the 18–34 cohort. Yet, most old Americans are living modestly or struggling because just 20% of senior households control nearly 90% of senior-held wealth. trib.al/mVvROWj
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The greed and corruption of the Trump presidency and Trump family is worse than all previous U.S. administrations combined. The fact that millions of Americans are tolerating this, or even celebrating it, underlines just how far we’ve fallen.
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The Trumps have not only enriched themselves to an unprecedented extent for a sitting US president and his family, but have done so through crypto deals that carried little to no downside risk for them while resulting in big losses for retail investors reut.rs/4uZf4QB
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Chuck Marr retweeted
Sec. Hegseth’s actions continue to be despicable – and they certainly aren’t representative of the Army I served in. We’ve repeatedly seen how this White House has disparaged and mistreated both active-duty service members and the veterans who raised their hand to serve this country. I’m glad that people are continuing to stand up and speak out. theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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Directly funding cost-sharing reductions (CSRs), as Republicans are apparently considering, would INCREASE out-of-pocket premiums for millions of #ACA marketplace enrollees, cut funding by tens of billions of $, and leave hundreds of thousands of ppl uninsured.
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CBPP's Victoria Gibney posted a thread to Bluesky on new Rx Kids research showing that cash assistance during pregnancy and infancy improved birth outcomes and prenatal care for families in Flint, MI. bsky.app/profile/vhgibney.bs…
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This is the third tech person I've seen advance this capital taxation point in the past week-constructive- feels like the ground is shifting fast &, we'll see, but policymakers understandably focused on affordability issues may need to catch up as AI response moves front & center
Replying to @vkhosla
Post 2028, eliminate preferential capital gains treatment and tax it as ordinary income. No principled argument survives in a world of AI-boosted capital returns. This could generate approximately $400B per year. These collections should flow first to those whose employment is impacted by AI. Any remainder should rebate the income tax of the ~75M Americans earning under $75,000. This isn't redistribution. It rebalances a tax code that was already redistributing, just upward.
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There's lots of overlap on the tax raising side but AI lens would definitely have major design ramifications -- also overlap on the investment/safety net side (eg people need to be able to afford to go to the dr) but other areas (labor market related) will likely move up list
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“You don’t achieve balanced, intelligent regulation by silencing debate — you get it by engaging seriously and earning trust,” John O’Farrell writes about internal threats to Silicon Valley. nyti.ms/4vHBbew
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Good for John O'Farrell @johnofa . Great column.
wow oh wow, a16z’s first outside gp @johnofa in @nytopinion today:
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Congressional Democrats: "We need an answer to No Tax on Tips." Congressional Republicans: "Nobody cares about No Tax on Tips."
Trillions in tax cuts tilted to the wealthy financed by a combination of devastating cuts to health care and nutrition assistance and higher deficits isn't a political winner.
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Trillions in tax cuts tilted to the wealthy financed by a combination of devastating cuts to health care and nutrition assistance and higher deficits isn't a political winner.
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Secretary Rollins tells the Senate Agriculture Committee that “no one wants kids to be hungry.” In just the 12 states with available data, the number of children receiving SNAP has fallen by more than 700,000 since the deepest SNAP cuts in history were enacted in H.R. 1.
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Here's just one example of a family with two young kids who lost their SNAP benefits — or as Secretary Rollins would apparently describe it, "chose not to reapply." nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tru…
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Rollins: No one was kicked off of SNAP. If they are not on SNAP, they have chosen not to reapply or they are an able bodied adult that can work.
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I would like extend this far beyond healthcare with the IRS being a good example - perceived as an enemy
I think it’s really under-appreciated that a core fact of American politics is Republicans have this extreme outlier view of health care that no other major political party in the world tries to uphold.
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The 2026 annual report of the Social Security trustees released today shows a worsening outlook for the program’s finances, driven in part by Trump Administration's policies. More from CBPP's Kathleen Romig: cbpp.org/press/statements/so…
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The Trump Admin & House Republicans are proposing more cuts for 2027 that would further hinder IRS’s ability to collect taxes that are legally owed. Senate appropriators should reject House cuts to the IRS budget to avoid further hamstringing the agency. cbpp.org/blog/senate-appropr…
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Good point- &to be more specific I think the lesson is here is tax cuts have had little political juice- and, related, a good narrative can carry lots of different policies So the policy goal should be to do good policy, eg cutting child poverty by 40% is good
Recent history has not been kind to policymakers of both parties seeking political popularity from middle-class tax cuts: -2012: Obama tries to make expiration of payroll tax cut a key pressure point, expires with little fanfare -2018: Trump tax cuts followed by midterm losses -2020: Trump rebates followed by election loss -2021: Biden rebates and CTC precede popularity slide A lesson here for folks thinking about 2029!
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There's no evidence that SNAP participation is cratering because more people are working. (Much less volunteering, which by definition doesn't pay the bills!) But we do know that eligible people—including families with kids—are losing SNAP because of new bureaucratic obstacles.
The food stamp rolls decline—hurray. GOP reforms are paying off as more recipients work or volunteer. on.wsj.com/4dXjbGY
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