Jordan Howard
@jordanahoward.bsky.social
Planning, transportation, and economic development. Dem campaign finance in another life. Long suffering Mets, Jets, and Knicks fan. Expect typos. Views are my own.
The Republican Party hasn't had an original idea on healthcare in at least 30 years.
It's all high risk pools and HSAs which do nothing to address costs and coverage.
It's all high risk pools and HSAs which do nothing to address costs and coverage.
Thune dumps large bucket of ice water on the House Dems' three-year ACA subsidies extension discharge petition. Says it's "not happening"
“A straight up extension is a waste of money"
Says one option could be a short extension that gives people option of putting money in HSAs
“A straight up extension is a waste of money"
Says one option could be a short extension that gives people option of putting money in HSAs
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Republican Party hasn't had an original idea on healthcare in at least 30 years.
It's all high risk pools and HSAs which do nothing to address costs and coverage.
It's all high risk pools and HSAs which do nothing to address costs and coverage.
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Must watch: @whitehouse.senate.gov calls out the “stupid” misinformation pushed by the GOP after the Brown University shooting — baseless lies that are actively hindering the investigation and putting lives at risk.
December 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Must watch: @whitehouse.senate.gov calls out the “stupid” misinformation pushed by the GOP after the Brown University shooting — baseless lies that are actively hindering the investigation and putting lives at risk.
Left leaning ppl need to realize that while Ds have more "wealthy" donors, Rs have a few disgustingly rich donors and they give way more than D rich people who don't give nearly enough and nearly always come with strings attached. The R mega donors just plow money to elect Rs.
Sure, but Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Cuban all backed Harris before they went all-in on Trump.
It's the same trough. The $$ just shifted for fascism and Dems in Congress haven't gotten the memo yet.
It's the same trough. The $$ just shifted for fascism and Dems in Congress haven't gotten the memo yet.
December 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Left leaning ppl need to realize that while Ds have more "wealthy" donors, Rs have a few disgustingly rich donors and they give way more than D rich people who don't give nearly enough and nearly always come with strings attached. The R mega donors just plow money to elect Rs.
Vance is realistic with this prediction, although those losses would be spun as a loss, particularly if the Ds get 3 and the Senate is 50-50. Wiles is completely delusional.
December 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Vance is realistic with this prediction, although those losses would be spun as a loss, particularly if the Ds get 3 and the Senate is 50-50. Wiles is completely delusional.
I'll never forgive Bob Casey.
Sen. Dave McCormick says Vance's "number one" economic message to Pennsylvanians should be "the Biden economy was a disaster"
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'll never forgive Bob Casey.
When he runs for President, Vance will have two personalities - this insanely online groyper one and the one he puts on in traditional media as a "serious" person. Neither are real.
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
When he runs for President, Vance will have two personalities - this insanely online groyper one and the one he puts on in traditional media as a "serious" person. Neither are real.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
Well, well, well, who could've possibly predicted this except for every city that implemented congestion pricing?
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Well, well, well, who could've possibly predicted this except for every city that implemented congestion pricing?
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I've been thinking a lot about another time in history when our political system failed the American people. When an evil interest held sway over the government and corrupted every aspect of politics. I am, of course, referring to slavery, and more specifically to the “slave power”.
December 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I've been thinking a lot about another time in history when our political system failed the American people. When an evil interest held sway over the government and corrupted every aspect of politics. I am, of course, referring to slavery, and more specifically to the “slave power”.
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, representing the first major legal challenge to President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition.
Read more: https://wapo.st/4iR882N
Read more: https://wapo.st/4iR882N
December 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, representing the first major legal challenge to President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition.
Read more: https://wapo.st/4iR882N
Read more: https://wapo.st/4iR882N
The interesting thing about IN, and what Trump never gets, is political capital is not infinite. Trump has had a shit ton with Rs but the Epstein files, the failure of IN, then recent NDAA -- little dents in the armor that show Rs are thinking of a future beyond him.
December 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The interesting thing about IN, and what Trump never gets, is political capital is not infinite. Trump has had a shit ton with Rs but the Epstein files, the failure of IN, then recent NDAA -- little dents in the armor that show Rs are thinking of a future beyond him.
IN saying no should end the Great Gerrymanding War of 2025.
TX and CA cancel out
UT and NC cancel out
MO will be blocked
FL and VA would cancel out and should stand down
Let's move on.
TX and CA cancel out
UT and NC cancel out
MO will be blocked
FL and VA would cancel out and should stand down
Let's move on.
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
IN saying no should end the Great Gerrymanding War of 2025.
TX and CA cancel out
UT and NC cancel out
MO will be blocked
FL and VA would cancel out and should stand down
Let's move on.
TX and CA cancel out
UT and NC cancel out
MO will be blocked
FL and VA would cancel out and should stand down
Let's move on.
This is an argument for Medicare for All.
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is an argument for Medicare for All.
One thing a D take over of at least one chamber needs to do is sue the crap out of the Admin and we need to have more direct Art I v Art II powers debates. SCOTUS and this Admin just pretend Congress, constitutionally the most powerful branch, doesn't exist!
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
One thing a D take over of at least one chamber needs to do is sue the crap out of the Admin and we need to have more direct Art I v Art II powers debates. SCOTUS and this Admin just pretend Congress, constitutionally the most powerful branch, doesn't exist!
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What matters more than anything is what kind of Black candidate can win a statewide race. Crockett comes from a relatively safe district and all but inherited it from EBJ and is only a two-term Democrat. It's fair to scrutinize whether she can win.
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
What matters more than anything is what kind of Black candidate can win a statewide race. Crockett comes from a relatively safe district and all but inherited it from EBJ and is only a two-term Democrat. It's fair to scrutinize whether she can win.
Whoa! Good for Allred, he's right. He should go for a row office though and not a CD, unless he just loves being in DC that much.
Wow -- Allred drops out of Texas Senate race, says he's running for House race in CD 33
"I’ve come to believe that a bruising Senate Democratic primary and runoff would prevent the Democratic Party from going into this critical election unified"
"I’ve come to believe that a bruising Senate Democratic primary and runoff would prevent the Democratic Party from going into this critical election unified"
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Whoa! Good for Allred, he's right. He should go for a row office though and not a CD, unless he just loves being in DC that much.
I gotta hand it to Cuellar, he probably strongly implied he would switch parties and then pulled a fast one.
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I gotta hand it to Cuellar, he probably strongly implied he would switch parties and then pulled a fast one.
I continue to believe Rs assumed Ds didn't have it in them the ability or chutzpah to retalitate and now they've backed themselves into a corner.
Will Hoosiers shoot themselves in the foot? If the Indiana Senate approves the state House's draft, Republicans gain two seats...but lose any chance of power in a Democratic Congress in 2027.
My latest, at Fixing Bugs in Democracy: samwang.substack.com/p/will-hoosi...
My latest, at Fixing Bugs in Democracy: samwang.substack.com/p/will-hoosi...
Will Hoosiers shoot themselves in the foot?
A look ahead at 2026 suggests that Indiana legislators would be wise to hedge their bets.
samwang.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I continue to believe Rs assumed Ds didn't have it in them the ability or chutzpah to retalitate and now they've backed themselves into a corner.
People don't have jobs, can't get jobs, and everything is expensive.
Small businesses are getting killed right now. They cut 120,000 jobs last month, per ADP. They've been negative six of the last seven months. Awful.
December 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
People don't have jobs, can't get jobs, and everything is expensive.
The comparison to Bush is relevant but ppl should focus how on in '08, McCain was seen (correctly) as independent of Bush & performed better than a Bush heir would've. In '28, the nominee will have to declare fealty to Trump and the wheels could really come off.
"In an environment in which all politics is national, loyalty to POTUS is more fragile. When he struggles, members of Congress are dragged down w/ him & they feel an urgent need to distinguish themselves. When they start to break with him, that only makes him look weaker" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Why MAGA is coming apart at the seams
Turns out they're not in it for Trump, they're in it for themselves.
www.publicnotice.co
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The comparison to Bush is relevant but ppl should focus how on in '08, McCain was seen (correctly) as independent of Bush & performed better than a Bush heir would've. In '28, the nominee will have to declare fealty to Trump and the wheels could really come off.
This is an absolutely wild number the the media needs to readjust its priors on this Adminstration -- less than a year into it it makes the Biden's popularlity look like peak Eisenhower's.
New Gallup poll shows Trump's approval hit a new low for his second term:
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
news.gallup.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is an absolutely wild number the the media needs to readjust its priors on this Adminstration -- less than a year into it it makes the Biden's popularlity look like peak Eisenhower's.
This just doesn't play well. It did in the late 2010s when people liked the economy. Now, as Biden and Ds found out, people get angry when you insist the economy is good and it's not.
Trump: "We're leading in everything. Our auto plants are pouring back into our country. Wait until you see the jobs coming with them. But they're, many of them are under construction."
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This just doesn't play well. It did in the late 2010s when people liked the economy. Now, as Biden and Ds found out, people get angry when you insist the economy is good and it's not.
10/10, no notes.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
10/10, no notes.
One under discussed aspect of Johnson is he wasn't in the House very long, he was only elected in '16 with Trump. All he knows is a Trump dominated Hill. It has prevented him from looking beyond this term. He's been a horrible Speaker who has weakened his institution.
Punchbowl backing up what I said last week, Greene is probable only the first of many Republicans to retire before the midterms
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
One under discussed aspect of Johnson is he wasn't in the House very long, he was only elected in '16 with Trump. All he knows is a Trump dominated Hill. It has prevented him from looking beyond this term. He's been a horrible Speaker who has weakened his institution.
This is an outlier but Trump was reelected to bring back the economy of the late 2010s and because of himself and macroeconomic forces, it's not happening and people are pissed.
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is an outlier but Trump was reelected to bring back the economy of the late 2010s and because of himself and macroeconomic forces, it's not happening and people are pissed.