Sarah Binder
@sarahbinder.bsky.social
Political scientist by day (and night). GWU and Brookings. Co-editor, https://goodauthority.org/
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'Tis the (Byrd bath) season!
June 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
'Tis the (Byrd bath) season!
Byrd droppings piling up from S Banking text. GOP-sought savings from Fed/CFPB are good reminder of Fed's *structural* independence. Guessing Byrd rule blocks zero'ing out of CFPB & Fed staff salary cuts, since Fed is self-funded & not reliant on Congress for appropriations.
June 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Byrd droppings piling up from S Banking text. GOP-sought savings from Fed/CFPB are good reminder of Fed's *structural* independence. Guessing Byrd rule blocks zero'ing out of CFPB & Fed staff salary cuts, since Fed is self-funded & not reliant on Congress for appropriations.
Yes: you can see (one metric) of impact of SALT cap repeal by state partisanship below. Dems hold all the seats where taxpayers have most to gain from repeal (green oval). But a set of both blue & red states would be hard hit by Medicaid ✂️. Those red state votes of course matter for fate of OB,BB.
May 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Yes: you can see (one metric) of impact of SALT cap repeal by state partisanship below. Dems hold all the seats where taxpayers have most to gain from repeal (green oval). But a set of both blue & red states would be hard hit by Medicaid ✂️. Those red state votes of course matter for fate of OB,BB.
All of the news accounts I can find and even the CRS report about Chere Rexroat's elevation to acting AOC are frustratingly in the passive tense! Congress took back the appointment power in 2023
Scroll down past the Jay-Z story 🤣....
www.archpaper.com/2023/05/dail...
sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41...
Scroll down past the Jay-Z story 🤣....
www.archpaper.com/2023/05/dail...
sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41...
May 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
All of the news accounts I can find and even the CRS report about Chere Rexroat's elevation to acting AOC are frustratingly in the passive tense! Congress took back the appointment power in 2023
Scroll down past the Jay-Z story 🤣....
www.archpaper.com/2023/05/dail...
sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41...
Scroll down past the Jay-Z story 🤣....
www.archpaper.com/2023/05/dail...
sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41...
Re-appointed [Faculty] Senate parliamentarian. Unanimous consent, no objections 🤣
🤞🏻🤞🏻I don’t get ignored or fired 😳
🤞🏻🤞🏻I don’t get ignored or fired 😳
May 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Re-appointed [Faculty] Senate parliamentarian. Unanimous consent, no objections 🤣
🤞🏻🤞🏻I don’t get ignored or fired 😳
🤞🏻🤞🏻I don’t get ignored or fired 😳
House GOP struggles to identify politically-palatable cuts to Medicaid shouldn't surprise (esp given slim majority). Figure shows % district enrolled in M'caid/CHIP vs Trump vote (2024). Significant cuts would hit across red states, esp in those that expanded M'caid (comprising 60% of House GOP).
May 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
House GOP struggles to identify politically-palatable cuts to Medicaid shouldn't surprise (esp given slim majority). Figure shows % district enrolled in M'caid/CHIP vs Trump vote (2024). Significant cuts would hit across red states, esp in those that expanded M'caid (comprising 60% of House GOP).
First serving for the 🤖
May 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
First serving for the 🤖
House & Senate GOP likely view big cuts to Medicaid differently--especially S GOP from states that expanded Medicaid post ACA. Graph shows % of Medicaid recipients enrolled via expansion (Q3 2024 data). You can see impact on red states, especially (but not limited to) red states above trend line.
May 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
House & Senate GOP likely view big cuts to Medicaid differently--especially S GOP from states that expanded Medicaid post ACA. Graph shows % of Medicaid recipients enrolled via expansion (Q3 2024 data). You can see impact on red states, especially (but not limited to) red states above trend line.
Truer words never spoken (even if not limited to the House...)
May 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Truer words never spoken (even if not limited to the House...)
Back by popular demand ... Hope it's not too early to gear up for the next Peepal Conclave 🐤 🐤
April 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Back by popular demand ... Hope it's not too early to gear up for the next Peepal Conclave 🐤 🐤
I give Senate approps 🥇 for best named 🍒🌸🏃🏻♀️🏃🏾Congressional team
Would be funnier team name had the March CR not eliminated most earmarks !
Would be funnier team name had the March CR not eliminated most earmarks !
April 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I give Senate approps 🥇 for best named 🍒🌸🏃🏻♀️🏃🏾Congressional team
Would be funnier team name had the March CR not eliminated most earmarks !
Would be funnier team name had the March CR not eliminated most earmarks !
Only one of these top stories is meant to be satire 😂
March 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Only one of these top stories is meant to be satire 😂
Ladies & gentlemen: We have a winner! Rob Oldham is now the proud owner of decades of my hand collected and coded NYT editorials (before they were available online) to juice his research on crisis & legislative action
And no, I'm not retiring. Just some purging to clear space on my office floor! 🤓
And no, I'm not retiring. Just some purging to clear space on my office floor! 🤓
March 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Ladies & gentlemen: We have a winner! Rob Oldham is now the proud owner of decades of my hand collected and coded NYT editorials (before they were available online) to juice his research on crisis & legislative action
And no, I'm not retiring. Just some purging to clear space on my office floor! 🤓
And no, I'm not retiring. Just some purging to clear space on my office floor! 🤓
Still life with … 🐔🍞🍞🍞
February 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Still life with … 🐔🍞🍞🍞
Variation in poverty by cong. districts-- between and within parties. Swing district GOP wary of slashing Medicaid/SNAP, but poverty rates are higher in GOP-held safe red districts. Still, poverty rates vary markedly across the 20 most competitive GOP-held districts-- from <4% to >15% of families
February 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Variation in poverty by cong. districts-- between and within parties. Swing district GOP wary of slashing Medicaid/SNAP, but poverty rates are higher in GOP-held safe red districts. Still, poverty rates vary markedly across the 20 most competitive GOP-held districts-- from <4% to >15% of families
February 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Here's text Congress wrote into a 2017 CR. Blocked Trump/NIH from lowering the "indirect cost" rate to 10%-- which would have slashed billions from biomedical research. Would Trump/Musk comply this time? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But lawmakers opposed to cuts do have options in a likely March CR
But lawmakers opposed to cuts do have options in a likely March CR
February 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Here's text Congress wrote into a 2017 CR. Blocked Trump/NIH from lowering the "indirect cost" rate to 10%-- which would have slashed billions from biomedical research. Would Trump/Musk comply this time? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But lawmakers opposed to cuts do have options in a likely March CR
But lawmakers opposed to cuts do have options in a likely March CR
House vs. Senate race to get to a budget resolution first continues!
February 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
House vs. Senate race to get to a budget resolution first continues!
Was looking in the CongRecord (as one does 😉) for the unanimous consent agreement that structured the timing of Pam Bondi's confirmation vote for AG. And now this ad keeps popping up when I'm online 🙄
February 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Was looking in the CongRecord (as one does 😉) for the unanimous consent agreement that structured the timing of Pam Bondi's confirmation vote for AG. And now this ad keeps popping up when I'm online 🙄
