Sean Casten
@seancasten
U.S. Representative, IL-06. Personal account. Dad. Husband. Trained as an engineer, 16 years as a clean energy CEO, now in middle management. For official stuff see @casten.house.gov
7. Later the Fed comes right out and says that - other than buying AI stuff - US tariff and foreign policy is the cause of slowing global growth. This is not the way you make our allies happy.
4. Speaking of immigration, fewer people in our economy are looking for work in the Trump economy, in large part because of Trump’s immigration policy. Specifically…
3. Next, look at labor impacts of Biden vs. Trump policies. 2021 - 2025 saw an economy creating jobs faster than workers in spite of high immigration. Since Trump that’s reversed in spite of low immigration.
2. Compare that to Fig 43 to see the proof. Unlike 2020 COVID inflation that was global, Trump’s only drove up US inflation. Global inflation stayed down until the Iran invasion when Trump policy jacked everyone’s prices.
1. First, look at Figure 1 to see how inflation is driven directly by Trump policy. Liberation Day tariffs are Q1 2025, Iran attacks Q1 2026. You can see both price spikes in the data.
He has not been to the mountaintop. He has not seen the promised land. And he will not get there with you.
Europe, by contrast is a gas consumer but not a producer. Historically, they depended on Russia but post the Ukraine invasion have increasingly depended on us.
So now let’s pivot to how that affects US/European energy policy. In the US, the fastest growing demand for natural gas is for exports. The industry - and their shills in the WH - are keen to protect that golden goose. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Key points, and a h/t to @matt-levine.bsky.social who flagged this in his blog yesterday. It's the Black Sox & Pete Rose scandals, but every day.
Well, I wasn't old enough to have a motorcycle. But I did jump over a lot of things on this bad boy.
... and what immediately came to my mind was this. Anyway, happy 4th, however you choose to celebrate!
The next Speaker, addressing the Congress in thr House where it all began
At the site where the vote to declare independence was declared 250 years ago today.
His "passion for low energy prices" is news to me. You will recall that he threatened to withhold military aid from the Saudis unless they raised oil prices not long ago...
John Paul Jones. George Washington. Nathan Hale. Robert Smalls. And now let us add Steve Scalise to our pantheon of great American heroes.
What a beautiful, only-in-America picture. Happy 4th. Happy Pride. To diversity and the beautiful game, with a little protest tossed in as well.
Past performance is of course no predictor of future results. But at least so far, there are parallels to Nixon's second term in terms of poll numbers, loss of the base, firing loyalists (Haldeman & Dean --> Bondi, Noem & Gabbard) and escalating paranoia.
You could have asked any landscaping expert for a comment. Respect to the reporter who went to Four Seasons Total Landscaping. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Senate roll call on confirmation. And to be clear, you didn’t have to know any of this crazy Butler stuff to know that she was totally unqualified. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Non-zero chance Trump is about to give this guy $300B and access to ballistic missiles.
First he ignores algae. Then he laughs at algae. Then he fights algae. Then the algae wins. (See also: Iran, Epstein files)
This moron is going to start filing bills terminating funding for transportation, movies about Transylvanian vampires and trans-Atlantic relations long before she ever bothers to learn what a transgenic mouse is.
2. There was a lot of value in us going to remind them of this, and to let parliamentarians who might be feeling pressure to buckle in the face of a bully know that large #s of Americans have their backs, and change is coming.
Funny you should mention area carpets. Although I suppose this does keep the bathroom floor less slippery. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-nasty...
Wherein the Fat Bastard scene in Austin Powers gets filmed in the West Wing.
Meanwhile, Articles 7, 10 and 11 makes this actually worth a lot more than $300B to Iran. (Apologies for the quality of the screenshot, but this is from the version of the MOU that the WH sent to Congress - thus DJT's initials on the bottom page.)
I understand why he doesn't want you to think that he got his ass kicked and then had to give Iran $300B. But that's exactly what he did.