https://bsky.app/profile/ronbrownstein.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronbrownstein.bsky.social/post/3llwu4exdac2uIf none of this has happened in 12 months, the odds are pretty high Cruz will find some rationale to avoid breaking with Trump at that point. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Apr 2025 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:yb7e4f6dgtc2y3zfnyogdxhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3llwu4exdac2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronbrownstein.bsky.social/post/3lhhijhpnck24House conservs are demanding GOP push big spending cuts when extending Trump's tax cuts. That departs from the GOP's tax only-sugar not spinach-strategy for the 01/03/17 tax cuts and echoes the plan that allowed Bill Clinton to revive his presidency in 95-96. More here. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/gop-trump-agenda-plans-analysis/index.html05 Feb 2025 21:15 +0000at://did:plc:yb7e4f6dgtc2y3zfnyogdxhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhhijhpnck24https://bsky.app/profile/ronbrownstein.bsky.social/post/3lhacitvnq224I wrote about this too. Bottom line is it was hard to convince voters that prices in the future would be higher under Trump when they believed that life was more affordable under him so recently in the past-despite all the warnings from economists of every ideological stripe about his Trump II plan [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Feb 2025 00:38 +0000at://did:plc:yb7e4f6dgtc2y3zfnyogdxhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhacitvnq224https://bsky.app/profile/ronbrownstein.bsky.social/post/3lgtpr5yckc24"Some 50% of poll respondents said the country was on the wrong track when it came to the cost of living, compared to 25% who said it was moving in the right direction." [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jan 2025 00:31 +0000at://did:plc:yb7e4f6dgtc2y3zfnyogdxhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgtpr5yckc24