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Alexander Bolton
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Senior staff writer, The Hill
U.S. Senate, national politics
There’s a growing feeling among Democratic lawmakers that the Biden administration completely mismanaged the southern border problem.

“We destroyed ourselves on the immigration issue in ways that were entirely predictable and entirely manageable,” one Democratic senator told The Hill.
Democratic senators say they bungled border security in 2024
Democratic senators are privately acknowledging their party committed “political malpractice” by bungling the issue of border security, which they view as a driving factor behind President-elect Tr…
thehill.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Reposted by Alexander Bolton
Trump tariffs seen adding $3,000 to car prices. So is that going to juice beat-the-tariffs sales before 1/20? (Especially for Mexico-built EVs like the Blazer and the Equinox that could soon lose their $7500 tax credit too?) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
GM, Ford Fall on Trump Tariffs Seen Adding $3,000 to Car Prices
Shares of US automakers tumbled on worries that a new round of tariffs imposed by President-elect Donald Trump will cause sticker prices to soar even further.
www.bloomberg.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:24 PM
House Republicans, nervous about the likelihood that a full 10-year extension of Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will give some conservatives sticker shock, have floated the idea of only a 4-year extension of Trump tax cuts.
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
House, Senate GOP battle over length of Trump tax cut extension
House Republicans are pushing back on Senate GOP negotiators over how long to extend President-elect Trump’s tax cuts, which are due to expire at the end of 2025. Sources familiar with the early di…
thehill.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:01 PM