In This Episode
Trump’s budget guts health care, education, and other programs to pay for his wall, Fox News personalities continue to be awful, House Democrats pass sweeping democracy reform, and a new poll shows that Democratic voters are less concerned about ideology than political reporters. Then Kara Swisher talks to Jon Favreau about Elizabeth Warren’s new plan to break up Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Also – Pod Save America is going on tour! Get your tickets now: crooked.com/events.
Show Notes:
Congress
- New York Times: Trump Budget to Request $8.6 Billion in Additional Border Wall Funding
- Vox: Trump will reportedly ask Congress for another $8.6 billion to build the wall
- CNN: Trump invites a new fight with Democrats over 2020 budget; seeks $8.6 billion for wall
- Washington Post: Trump to demand $8.6 billion in new wall funding, setting up fresh battle with Congress
- Wall Street Journal: Trump to Request $8.6 Billion for Border Wall in 2020 Budget
- Politico: Trump to seek $8.6 billion to finish border wall before 2020 election
- Politico: Trump fires back at ‘Wacky Nut Job’ Ann Coulter
- Washington Post: Trump budget to propose slashing domestic spending, boosting defense
- Bloomberg: Trump’s Plan for Slashing Budget to Set Off Battle in Congress
- Axios: Trump to release budget proposal with big defense spending increase
- Real Clear Politics: Congress Must Join the President in Cutting Spending – Op-Ed
- Washington Post: GOP bracing for Trump to veto Congress’s rejection of his emergency declaration
- Mother Jones: A Florida Massage Parlor Owner Has Been Selling Chinese Execs Access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago
- New York Times: Bill Shine Resigns as White House Message Chief
- Media Matters: In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments
- Esquire: The ‘Fake Melania’ Conspiracy Theory is Back
- New York Times: House Passes Democrats’ Centerpiece Anti-Corruption and Voting Rights Bill
- Vox: House Democrats just passed a slate of significant reforms to get money out of politics
- Vox: House Democrats’ big democracy reform package is good policy, and smart politics – Rarely does political reform get this kind of top billing.
- Mother Jones: House Passes the Most Significant Democracy Reform Bill in a Generation
- Axios: House Democrats pass major new campaign finance and ethics law
- Washington Post: House Democrats pass H.R. 1, their answer to draining the swamp
- Washington Post: Here’s the Democratic answer to Trump’s corruption and plutocracy
- NPR: Republicans Say Democrats’ Election Reform Bill Doesn’t Address Ballot Harvesting
- Roll Call: 10 things you might not know about HR 1
- The Atlantic: Senate Democrats’ Push to Expand Voting Rights
- Washington Post: Schumer’s push on voting rights: ‘Wake up and smell the coffee, Chief Justice’
- New Yorker: Democrats Push to Make Washington, D.C., the Fifty-first State
- The Hill: McConnell maintains that Senate won’t take up election reform bill
- Politico: McConnell won’t allow vote on election reform bill
- Think Progress: Here’s why conservative groups are so desperate to kill Democrats’ sweeping H.R. 1 legislation
- Washington Post: The prospect of easier and fairer voting terrifies Republicans
- Washington Post: Mitch McConnell: Behold the Democrat Politician Protection Act – Op-Ed
- Vox: Mitch McConnell’s dark secret: he used to support campaign finance reform
- New York Times: How Congress Is Weaponizing a Series of Hot-Button Votes
2020
- New York Times: Bernie Sanders-Style Politics Are Defining 2020 Race, Unnerving Moderates
- Washington Post: Yes, the Republican Party has changed since 2016. You think the Democratic Party hasn’t
- CNN: Have House Democrats lurched left? Not those from swing seats
- Politico: ‘A major player’: Sanders gets props from the Democratic establishment
- Politico: The Democrats’ Dilemma – What Ilhan Omar and Dean Phillips tell us about the future of the Democratic Party.
- New York Times: Capitalism and the Democratic Party – The most successful economic system shouldn’t be a dirty word.
- NBC News: Ocasio-Cortez outdraws presidential candidates, decries moderates as ‘meh’
- Daily Beast: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on ‘Heartbreaking’ ICE Setback
- Austin American Statesman: At SXSW, AOC and Bill Nye meld minds
- The Intercept: ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ AND THE NEW LEFT
- Des Moines Register: Iowa Poll: Not even in the race, Joe Biden leads herd of Democrats; Bernie Sanders close behind
- New York Times: Biden and Sanders Lead the 2020 Field in Iowa, Poll Finds
- Vox: Democrats in Iowa look to veteran politicians Biden and Sanders for 2020
- FiveThirtyEight: Democrats Care More About Winning Than Usual
- New York Times: A ‘Beat Trump’ Fervor Is Producing Big Turnouts for 2020 Democrats
- CNN: 2020 rankings: It’s now or never for Democrats who want to be president
- The Atlantic: How Not to Lose to Donald Trump
- Washington Post: Biden’s tough talk on 1970s school desegregation plan could get new scrutiny in today’s Democratic Party
- Harper’s: No Joe! – Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy
- Washington Post: Biden isn’t the only candidate running on bipartisanship. Why aren’t they taken as seriously?
- Washington Post: Is Joe Biden’s affability enough?
- CNN: Biden warned of ‘predators on our streets’ who were ‘beyond the pale’
- Vanity Fair: WITH BLOOMBERG OUT, WALL STREET DESPERATELY TURNS TO BIDEN
- Washington Post: Why Democrats are weirdly unified these days
- Daily Beast: Howard Schultz Bombs at SXSW: ‘You Don’t Like That?’
- Washington Post: Trump’s massive reelection campaign has 2016 themes — and a 2020 infrastructure
Kara Swisher
- Medium: Here’s how we can break up Big Tech
- Washington Post: The Trailer: At SXSW, Democrats put Big Tech on trial
- Washington Post: Does Elizabeth Warren’s breakup plan for the tech giants mark the end of a political romance?
- Washington Post: Warren Calls for Breakup of Tech Companies Like Amazon, Facebook
- Washington Post: Democrats vow Congress will ‘assert itself’ against tech — starting with Silicon Valley’s privacy practices
- Huffington Post: It Won’t Be A Lovefest For Democrats And Silicon Valley in 2020
- Recode: #KaraJack: All the tweets from Kara Swisher’s live interview with Jack Dorsey — in order
- New York Times: Amy Klobuchar Talks Health Care, Israel and, Yes, That Comb
- Wired: ‘KARA VERSUS JACK’ PROVES THAT TWITTER NEEDS AN EDIT BUTTON
- New York Times: Facebook Just Shoplifted Snapchat’s Best Idea
- New York Times: Luke Perry Had a Stroke and Died. I Had One and Lived.
- New York Times: Amazon Isn’t Interested in Making the World a Better Place
- New York Times: Jeff Bezos Isn’t Afraid of Total Exposure
- New York Times: Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Fix That Op-Ed You Wrote
- New York Times: Trump vs. Ocasio-Cortez: Who Will Win the Internet?
- New York Times: Who Will Teach Silicon Valley to Be Ethical?
- New York Times: Introducing the Internet Bill of Rights
- Austin 360: Defiant Kathy Griffin flaps unflappable Kara Swisher in provocative SXSW keynote
