David Trimmer
@dtrim99.bsky.social
Policy Research Fellow at @policyengine.org | Contributor for the People’s Policy Project | Former Intern at @niskanencenter.bsky.social | Views Are My Own
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SB 79 PASSED!
APARTMENTS NEXT TO ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ARE NOW LEGAL! THIS IS HUGE!!!
APARTMENTS NEXT TO ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ARE NOW LEGAL! THIS IS HUGE!!!
September 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
SB 79 PASSED!
APARTMENTS NEXT TO ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ARE NOW LEGAL! THIS IS HUGE!!!
APARTMENTS NEXT TO ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ARE NOW LEGAL! THIS IS HUGE!!!
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🤝 Big news: PolicyEngine and @nber.org
have signed an MOU to ensure researchers worldwide continue accessing critical tax microsimulation tools.
We're building an open-source TAXSIM emulator, combining NBER's 50+ years of tax expertise with modern open-source infrastructure.
have signed an MOU to ensure researchers worldwide continue accessing critical tax microsimulation tools.
We're building an open-source TAXSIM emulator, combining NBER's 50+ years of tax expertise with modern open-source infrastructure.
September 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🤝 Big news: PolicyEngine and @nber.org
have signed an MOU to ensure researchers worldwide continue accessing critical tax microsimulation tools.
We're building an open-source TAXSIM emulator, combining NBER's 50+ years of tax expertise with modern open-source infrastructure.
have signed an MOU to ensure researchers worldwide continue accessing critical tax microsimulation tools.
We're building an open-source TAXSIM emulator, combining NBER's 50+ years of tax expertise with modern open-source infrastructure.
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While the 6th-largest city’s transit system utterly collapses, here’s a gentle reminder that the Pennsylvania Turnpike has $17.37 billion in debt on the books, for all those who think roads and highways make money.
August 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
While the 6th-largest city’s transit system utterly collapses, here’s a gentle reminder that the Pennsylvania Turnpike has $17.37 billion in debt on the books, for all those who think roads and highways make money.
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Imagine if we did some sort of "Fully Refundable Child Tax Credit" in the US.
Maybe child poverty would be substantially reduced while such a program was in place!
Maybe child poverty would be substantially reduced while such a program was in place!
Something that always enters my mind with UBI debates is the Canada Child Benefit which reduced child poverty significantly while replacing three different benefits (reduced admin costs) and had near universal take up (95%). It doesn't eliminate poverty but it does reduce the equilibrium a lot!
"We have 50 years (!) of experimental research on explicitly self-sufficiency oriented programs including carrots and sticks, work-requirements, and teaching people to behave like proper upper middle class white people and all that....and all of them have failed."
August 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Imagine if we did some sort of "Fully Refundable Child Tax Credit" in the US.
Maybe child poverty would be substantially reduced while such a program was in place!
Maybe child poverty would be substantially reduced while such a program was in place!
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🎉 PolicyEngine has been awarded a $300,000 Phase I POSE grant from NSF (Award No. 2518372) to expand our open-source platform, build sustainable governance, and grow our contributor community! https://policyengine.org/us/research/nsf-pose-phase-1-grant
National Science Foundation awards PolicyEngine $300,000 grant | PolicyEngine US
NSF's Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems program will support PolicyEngine's work to expand access to policy analysis tools.
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August 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
🎉 PolicyEngine has been awarded a $300,000 Phase I POSE grant from NSF (Award No. 2518372) to expand our open-source platform, build sustainable governance, and grow our contributor community! https://policyengine.org/us/research/nsf-pose-phase-1-grant
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Happy Birthday Social Security 🫡
Social Security turns 90 today.
Social Security is the largest form of wealth 90% of people will have.
Privatizing Social Security won't help workers—it would just enrich Wall Street.
Learn more about Social Security in our new FAQ: www.epi.org/publication/...
Social Security is the largest form of wealth 90% of people will have.
Privatizing Social Security won't help workers—it would just enrich Wall Street.
Learn more about Social Security in our new FAQ: www.epi.org/publication/...
Social Security FAQ
Social Security turns 90 this year. Despite its popularity and exemplary record of never having missed a payment---even after the 9/11 terror attacks and Hurricane Katrina---misperceptions persist abo...
www.epi.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Happy Birthday Social Security 🫡
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Nearly 100,000 women and children in Gaza are facing “severe acute malnutrition.” This is a feature of Israel’s war, not a bug. From @ryanlcooper.com:
Israel’s Endgame Is Obliterating Palestine
Gaza is being deliberately starved. The West Bank is next.
trib.al
July 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Nearly 100,000 women and children in Gaza are facing “severe acute malnutrition.” This is a feature of Israel’s war, not a bug. From @ryanlcooper.com:
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New: A 50-year-old federal rule has stifled affordable housing. Congress may finally, at long last, do something about it
www.vox.com/policy/42025...
www.vox.com/policy/42025...
Cutting five words from this law could make houses cheaper
The commonsense, zero-cost fix that Congress wouldn’t touch.
www.vox.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New: A 50-year-old federal rule has stifled affordable housing. Congress may finally, at long last, do something about it
www.vox.com/policy/42025...
www.vox.com/policy/42025...
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that's right www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/the...
July 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
that's right www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/the...
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my Supreme Court reform proposal is simple: just expand the court to 13 justices, one to oversee each circuit court. every justice shall serve a 13-year term, with the president appointing a new justice every year
Supreme Court reform needs to be the litmus test for every democrat in every primary in 2026 and 2028
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows Trump to gut the Department of Education, over the dissent of the three Democratic appointees.
July 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
my Supreme Court reform proposal is simple: just expand the court to 13 justices, one to oversee each circuit court. every justice shall serve a 13-year term, with the president appointing a new justice every year
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Remember when JD Vance & the "realignment" right were talking about increasing the child tax credit to $5000?
I assume they secured that win for America in the budget bill.
Let's check the numbers—
Oh wait it's only a $200 annual increase?
And the poorest families are still excluded from it?
No way!
I assume they secured that win for America in the budget bill.
Let's check the numbers—
Oh wait it's only a $200 annual increase?
And the poorest families are still excluded from it?
No way!
July 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Remember when JD Vance & the "realignment" right were talking about increasing the child tax credit to $5000?
I assume they secured that win for America in the budget bill.
Let's check the numbers—
Oh wait it's only a $200 annual increase?
And the poorest families are still excluded from it?
No way!
I assume they secured that win for America in the budget bill.
Let's check the numbers—
Oh wait it's only a $200 annual increase?
And the poorest families are still excluded from it?
No way!
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NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.
June 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.
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Last night, @bradlander.bsky.social and I exposed Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace on the debate stage.
With early voting starting tomorrow, we're cross-endorsing to defeat the ex-Gov. and win a city everyone can afford. Rank Brad #2!
With early voting starting tomorrow, we're cross-endorsing to defeat the ex-Gov. and win a city everyone can afford. Rank Brad #2!
Mamdani and Lander Will Cross-Endorse Each Other in N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Last night, @bradlander.bsky.social and I exposed Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace on the debate stage.
With early voting starting tomorrow, we're cross-endorsing to defeat the ex-Gov. and win a city everyone can afford. Rank Brad #2!
With early voting starting tomorrow, we're cross-endorsing to defeat the ex-Gov. and win a city everyone can afford. Rank Brad #2!
At least it wasn’t Gottheimer.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mikie Sherrill wins Democratic nomination for governor in New Jersey primary election.
June 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
At least it wasn’t Gottheimer.
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Supreme Court Signals That It Will Declare Removal Protections for NLRB Members Unconstitutional
www.nlrbedge.com/p/supreme-co...
www.nlrbedge.com/p/supreme-co...
Supreme Court Signals That It Will Declare Removal Protections for NLRB Members Unconstitutional
Member Wilcox will remain removed during her legal challenge, depriving NLRB of quorum.
www.nlrbedge.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Supreme Court Signals That It Will Declare Removal Protections for NLRB Members Unconstitutional
www.nlrbedge.com/p/supreme-co...
www.nlrbedge.com/p/supreme-co...
Claim: SALT Caucus members say the cap in the W&M bill is inadequate to deliver real tax relief for middle-class families.
Reality: Raising the cap to $62k/$124k would lower the tax liability of households in the top decile by $2,621 and $13 or less for those in the bottom five.
Reality: Raising the cap to $62k/$124k would lower the tax liability of households in the top decile by $2,621 and $13 or less for those in the bottom five.
May 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Claim: SALT Caucus members say the cap in the W&M bill is inadequate to deliver real tax relief for middle-class families.
Reality: Raising the cap to $62k/$124k would lower the tax liability of households in the top decile by $2,621 and $13 or less for those in the bottom five.
Reality: Raising the cap to $62k/$124k would lower the tax liability of households in the top decile by $2,621 and $13 or less for those in the bottom five.
The tax bill approved by the W&M Committee includes a $30k SALT cap, phasing down to $10k for households above $400k. Using @us.policyengine.org, the SALT cap would raise federal revenues by $937 billion over ten years, conditional on other provisions in the tax package.
May 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The tax bill approved by the W&M Committee includes a $30k SALT cap, phasing down to $10k for households above $400k. Using @us.policyengine.org, the SALT cap would raise federal revenues by $937 billion over ten years, conditional on other provisions in the tax package.
The new W&M draft extends the TCJA’s standard deduction provisions and boosts the amounts for tax years 2025-2028 as follows:
- $1,000 for single and separate filers
- $1,500 for HoH
- $2,000 for joint filers and surviving spouses
- $1,000 for single and separate filers
- $1,500 for HoH
- $2,000 for joint filers and surviving spouses
May 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The new W&M draft extends the TCJA’s standard deduction provisions and boosts the amounts for tax years 2025-2028 as follows:
- $1,000 for single and separate filers
- $1,500 for HoH
- $2,000 for joint filers and surviving spouses
- $1,000 for single and separate filers
- $1,500 for HoH
- $2,000 for joint filers and surviving spouses
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New Ways & Means draft extends TCJA's AMT provisions while letting the SALT cap expire. Since AMT limits SALT benefits, filers would gain more from SALT than they did pre-TCJA.
For example, a joint filer with $250k income faces these effective SALT caps in 2026:
Current law: $38,876
W&M: $72,747
For example, a joint filer with $250k income faces these effective SALT caps in 2026:
Current law: $38,876
W&M: $72,747
May 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
New Ways & Means draft extends TCJA's AMT provisions while letting the SALT cap expire. Since AMT limits SALT benefits, filers would gain more from SALT than they did pre-TCJA.
For example, a joint filer with $250k income faces these effective SALT caps in 2026:
Current law: $38,876
W&M: $72,747
For example, a joint filer with $250k income faces these effective SALT caps in 2026:
Current law: $38,876
W&M: $72,747
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Yesterday at the Future of Think Tanks Hackathon, @pavelmakarchuk.bsky.social, Daphne Hansell and I built a prototype tool to generate legislation from
@policyengine.org simulations using LLMs. We hope to integrate this into the platform soon.
Try it here: policyengine-legislation.streamlit.app
@policyengine.org simulations using LLMs. We hope to integrate this into the platform soon.
Try it here: policyengine-legislation.streamlit.app
Legislation Drafter
This app was built in Streamlit! Check it out and visit https://streamlit.io for more awesome community apps. 🎈
policyengine-legislation.streamlit.app
May 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Yesterday at the Future of Think Tanks Hackathon, @pavelmakarchuk.bsky.social, Daphne Hansell and I built a prototype tool to generate legislation from
@policyengine.org simulations using LLMs. We hope to integrate this into the platform soon.
Try it here: policyengine-legislation.streamlit.app
@policyengine.org simulations using LLMs. We hope to integrate this into the platform soon.
Try it here: policyengine-legislation.streamlit.app