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Catherine Rampell

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@BulwarkOnline Economics Editor. @MSNOWNews (formerly known as MSNBC) Anchor. In prior lives: WaPo, NYT, CNN, NewsHour. Econ, politics, tax, theater, etc.

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1Jan 28, '25I didn’t ask Scott to "do a Nazi salute." I asked Scott to do whatever Elon Musk’s gesture was, since Scott said it was a mere greeting of enthusiasm for the crowd. If that's the c55.3×8.3M226k15k4.2k
2Sep 16, '24a friend sent this to me53.9×8.1M234k25k12k
3Jul 27, '24Scenes from the Harris fundraiser in Pittsfield MA45.9×6.9M9k1k500
4Jun 1, '23“No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” a Florida teacher told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be37.1×5.6M40k5.2k679
5Sep 5, '24My job is to analyze policy. I can't even find a complete sentence in this36.8×5.5M72k10k4.2k
6Sep 12, '23holy moly, child poverty rate rose from all-time low of 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% (!!!) in 2022, reflecting end of temporary child allowance and other programs.36.1×5.4M8.1k2.7k422
7Jul 21, '24Thinking of this image again today29.9×4.5M48k5.7k890
8Jan 18, '23From 2017-early 2020, Trump signed into law $4.7 trillion of new debt, above & beyond what US had been expected to borrow absent new laws About half of that $4.7T in new debt w21.9×3.3M17k5.5k462
9Apr 15, '23Texas Republican who has led charge to ban all-ages drag shows "to stop the sexualization of kids" is facing allegations of inviting an intern to his home, serving her alcohol even21.5×3.2M17k6.4k313
10May 16, '23What’s in this supposedly commonsense bill McCarthy is demanding in exchange for not destroying the global economy? Here’s my handy guide, for those interested in the substance of 16.9×2.5M5.8k2.3k609
11Jan 26, '25Asked how people can apply for asylum legally, now that Trump has canceled all CBP One appts, Homan says "Go to the port of entry, do it the legal way." That's what the CBP One app14.7×2.2M24k4k1.3k
12Oct 8, '24As president, Trump withheld Covid supplies from US states, but sent Covid tests to Putin. Hard to believe this guy is still a coin flip away from a second term.12.5×1.9M15k5.5k589
13Nov 28, '24So Mexico agrees to do the thing it's already been doing, and Trump claims victory. Sounds about right11.7×1.8M24k2.5k845
14Aug 12, '24Bank of America CEO says research team "does not have any recession predicted anymore"10.5×1.6M5.9k1.9k224
15Sep 15, '24"In Texas, a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks—far too early for her baby to survive outside the womb—was unable to get an abortion until she became septic. She spent three days 9.8×1.5M24k8.8k2k
16Jul 25, '23was X the name of his childhood sled7.8×1.2M9k1.1k77
17Mar 24, '20Bill Gates says we can’t restart the economy soon and simply “ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner”5.7×030k9k193
18Aug 13, '22Took a lot of advanced planning for Trump to declassify the documents that FBI agents would later plant at his home5.6×036k5.5k269
19Jan 15, '23The question more interviewers should be asking GOP lawmakers threatening to default on our debt because of alleged concerns about fiscal profligacy is this: Why no such concerns w5.4×811k11k3.7k217
20Feb 3, '25Anyone reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done their homework. Trump boasts he got Sheinbaum to commit to stationing 10K troops at our 4.8×721k8k2.7k694
21May 2, '23Retweeting this clip from 2019, for no particular reason4.7×713k6.1k2k115
22Mar 3, '24Trump plans to: *add a 10% tax to almost everything consumers buy *reduce labor supply (cracking down on both legal and illegal immigration) *expand deficits (more tax cuts etc) *k4.7×712k6.3k2.1k366
23Feb 26, '24can you imagine hiring a team of defense attorneys, racking up millions in legal fees, and then just...admitting the crime on tv4.7×709k12k1.7k358
24Oct 30, '24Sen. Ted Cruz tells @edlavaCNN that he won't talk about abortion access because it's only "the press" that is "obsessed" with the issue. Not voters. Meanwhile, Texan women are goin4.6×691k6k2.6k154
25Nov 18, '21my inbox is full of people claiming Biden caused the recent spike in gas prices when he "shut down Keystone pipeline." Given this pipeline does not yet exist -- and was only 8% bui4.5×028k4.6k310
26Mar 28, '20From just a few months ago.4.4×022k7.6k298
27Dec 3, '23Free advice for others in my profession. Spend less time reporting on who's ahead in the election, and more time on what they'd do if elected.4.4×662k6.1k1.6k54
28Apr 5, '20“Bush did not just insist on preparation for a pandemic. He was obsessed with it.”4.3×021k5.8k421
29Jan 22, '19Bread lines...televised Cabinet flattery sessions...centrally-planned economic industrial policy: Under Republican leadership, the US is turning into Republicans’ scariest 30-year-4.3×018k8.2k227
30Jul 20, '19Padma Lakshmi: "The president is himself a second-generation American. Two of the president’s wives are immigrants, but the only difference between them and Omar — and myself — is 4.1×022k6k134
31Jul 16, '24If inflation is your top issue, you might want to pay attention to this Trump/Vance proposal to literally reduce the value of the dollar.4.0×603k5.4k2.3k291
32Oct 18, '24huh, was not aware presidents only serve 38-month terms3.8×578k16k427200
33Sep 19, '20Let's be precise. GOP-controlled Senate didn't "reject" Obama's 2016 SCOTUS nominee; they didn't assess Garland's fitness, hold a vote, vote him down Rather, McConnell refused to h3.7×021k5.4k151
34Feb 5, '21Trump Shifted Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business After Losing The Election via3.6×012k6.1k285
36May 25, '23Hmm maybe this is a sign we should not be letting any random parent dictate what reading materials are available to an entire school’s study body?3.6×536k6.9k1.2k76
37Nov 24, '19"Why isn't a rape allegation worth an impeachment inquiry?"3.5×019k4.8k110
39Aug 26, '17If you're not disgusted enough: read this on how Arpaio's office botched 400 sex-crime cases, many involving kids3.2×08.3k8.4k1
40Sep 27, '23judge has ordered 2 top Trump officials, former DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and AG Jeff Sessions, to be deposed in lawsuit over family separations. would mark the first time the3.2×477k6.6k1.9k74
41Sep 30, '19House Ways & Means Chair Neal said he’s consulting lawyers about whether to make public a complaint by a federal employee about possible misconduct in the IRS’s auditing of Tru3.1×014k5.5k106
42May 14, '21"Compared to women, men feel most able to take on medium-sized dogs and geese"3.1×08.5k1.6k592
43Oct 14, '20Former VP of NBC News (in public Facebook post she asked friends to share)3.1×017k4.8k75
44Oct 21, '20impossible for the Russians to be manipulating Giuliani, say supporters of man who was apparently hoodwinked by <checks notes> Borat2.9×018k3.1k67
45Mar 19, '25This appears to be in response to a single trans swimmer who graduated…three years ago.2.9×430k7.7k1.2k239
46Jan 7, '2145% of Republicans approve of the storming of the Capitol building.2.8×08.2k4.1k660
47Apr 18, '20President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through the campaign manager’s private company, accordin2.6×09.2k4.9k208
48Aug 26, '20I am so tired of this narrative that the economy was in the toilet under Obama and Trump revived it. Unemployment was 4.7% when Trump took office. Average GDP growth in Obama's 2nd2.5×014k3.5k209
49Oct 6, '18GOP stole a SCOTUS seat from Obama; took away filibuster so that they could push through a pick without 60 votes; arranged for a sham FBI investigation when their pick was credibly2.4×011k4.1k46
50Oct 23, '20Santorum just said that no one called Trump a racist before he was president. AYFKM. 50 years ago, Nixon's DOJ accused Trump of racism, for refusing to rent apartments to Black peo2.4×013k3.2k104
51Sep 8, '20Wisconsin leads the nation in farm bankruptcies. Number of family farms filing for bankruptcy in 2019 jumped nearly 20% from the previous year. Manufacturers in Wisconsin have also2.4×011k4.3k151
52Aug 4, '17I ran Trump's qualifications through the points-based immigration system he endorsed. He would not get a green card2.4×010k4.7k1
53Apr 23, '22Amazing. Gov. Greg Abbott's "enhanced" truck inspections turned up zero drugs or migrants, but cost Texas consumers and businesses an estimated $4.2 billion. Delays resulted in $242.3×09.6k4.1k294
54Jun 30, '20He thinks windmills cause cancer and asked his national security advisers to look into nuking hurricanes2.3×013k2.3k44
55Aug 5, '21Gallup asked Hispanic respondents about their preference among the terms "Hispanic," "Latino" and "Latinx.” Results:2.3×08.6k2k911
56Mar 2, '20Guy trying to kick out immigrants for not having right paperwork turns out to not have right paperwork himself2.3×012k3.4k48
57Dec 30, '17Trump got feds to build him helipad at Maralago, and town of Palm Beach to permit use of helicopter there on condition it's used for official presidential business only. Been used 2.0×06.1k5.1k2
58Feb 21, '20Trump's farmer trade bailout is already more than 2x the size of the 2009 auto bailout2.0×08.4k3.8k122
59Aug 3, '20judge a politician by the people he surrounds himself with, says campaign manager for politician whose former campaign chair, deputy chair, national security adviser, foreign polic2.0×011k3k124
60Sep 20, '17Remember how Trump bragged about getting Manafort's services for free? If you aren't paying, you're not the customer -- you're the product2.0×09.4k3.7k0
61Feb 23, '20Trump flew back to his own Las Vegas hotel each night during the western-states swing that wrapped up Friday, rather than in the other cities he was actually visiting. That likely 2.0×06.6k4.5k65
62Dec 21, '20Horses that reportedly got traded today: Repubs demanded tax break for corporate meal expenses ("three martini lunches"). Dems agreed, in exchange for expanded tax credits for low 1.9×08.6k3.2k179
63Aug 16, '19Love this photo of dogs watching a performance of Billy Elliott. They’re training to become service dogs, and they're practicing what it's like to help their handlers navigate thro1.9×010k2.6k142
64Jan 30, '20Congrats, we spent $2T on a tax cut for the rich to get us back to almost exactly the average pace of growth from Obama’s second term1.8×08.9k3.1k126
65Aug 13, '20What happened to all those constitutional conservatives I've heard about? Postal service, decennial census, legislative branch holding power of the purse -- Trump is sabotaging so 1.8×08.5k2.9k99
66Dec 20, '19Two years ago, Trump signed his tax cuts into law. He made big promises about them: they’d pay for themselves; supercharge GDP; give Americans huge raises; and ultimately become qu1.7×07k3.4k111
67Nov 12, '25Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead1.7×261k13k1.1k170
68Mar 15, '20can't let the virus know1.7×011k1.6k31
69Mar 1, '21If this hearing happens, I hope Colin Kaepernick is the star witness1.6×09.7k1.6k41
70Aug 27, '20So weird how Trump is responsible for everything that happened in the first three years of his presidency but somehow the Democrats are responsible for the past 6 months1.6×09k2.1k65
71Mar 22, '19Thanks but no thanks. Sincerely, A Jew1.5×010k1.3k25
72Dec 17, '17"There's no way I could have known that the awful tax bill I now support benefits me because I still haven't read it" is not a great defense1.5×06k2.9k0
73Dec 14, '19Fox News’s Chris Wallace: "Let’s start with a basic fact. President Trump is engaged in the most direct, sustained assault on a free press in our history."1.5×08.1k2.2k44
74Oct 5, '18friend texts me: If Susan Collins had my back in a knife fight, I’d save time and stab myself in the front1.5×07.8k2.4k14
75Oct 10, '20Lol, apparently urging people to register to vote and "reject hate speech, misinformation, and online negativity" is campaigning against Trump. This reminds me of the time NPR twee1.4×08.5k1.7k78
76Feb 17, '19A national leader threatening “retribution” against those who practice political satire. What would you say if you saw this in any other country?1.4×08k1.8k25
77Oct 24, '18Today would be a good day for Trump to tell Americans that journalists are not the enemy of the people.1.4×07.6k1.8k10
78Nov 3, '19This threat is illustrative of the issue at the heart of the impeachment inquiry: Is Trump acting in the interests of the American people, or of Trump personally?1.3×06.4k2k43
79Aug 14, '19Real econ risk is if things go wrong, WH doesn't have a plan & doesn't have any competent personnel to come up with one. Trump's econ brain trust consists of a guy who plays an1.3×06.4k2k56
80Sep 1, '18Unclear whether all of the eulogists today accused of attacking Trump were actually attacking Trump. But when vague truisms about American values & fighting abuse of power soun1.3×07.1k1.9k25
81Aug 16, '19When Obama was president and the official economic statistics were good, Trump said they were fake. When Trump became president and inherited the exact same stats, suddenly they we1.3×05.8k2.4k73
82Apr 10, '19Funny how Maryanne Trump Barry needs to leave her job to be immune from consequences, and her brother needs to keep his for the same reason1.3×06.7k2k26
83Aug 15, '22From 2016.1.3×07.8k1.4k51
84Sep 20, '20Perhaps USA Today should re-publish this 2016 op-ed from McConnell1.3×05.6k2.4k61
85Aug 19, '19It's true! More than 1 in 4 doctors in the United States are immigrants More than half of students enrolling in STEM grad programs are immigrants Immigrants are less likely to comm1.2×06.2k2k54
86Oct 8, '19didn't we recently have an entire election about not conducting State Dept business on personal devices1.2×06.4k1.8k17
87Oct 9, '20Noted constitutional scholar Donald J. Trump definitely knows who is president right now1.1×07.4k1k25
88Aug 20, '20alternative headline: postal inspectors finally find case of boater fraud1.1×07.8k85317
89Aug 18, '20Striking that so much of the praise for Biden invokes the words “decent” and “empathy.” It’s not so much faint praise as a recognition that the other candidate is probably a sociop1.1×07.7k82915
90Jun 10, '20Know The Signs: How to tell if your grandparent has become an antifa agent1.1×05.7k1.5k74
91Sep 27, '19I don’t remember this part of schoolhouse rock1.1×06.9k1.2k14
92Apr 20, '22Where exactly are millennial professionals allowed to live? We got yelled at for living in our parents' basements. We can’t live in big expensive cities, b/c we’ll gentrify or pric1.1×06.7k941243
93Feb 26, '21this is the party that literally ran the US government from a country club!1.1×07k1k27
94Aug 21, '20The SDNY probably spent months investigating this, and he just..he just blurted it out1.0×05.7k1.5k121
95Apr 28, '20“Do us a favor, though”1.0×05.7k1.1k42
96Jan 25, '22Hey hey, my USPS-delivered free covid tests just arrived. I ordered, I think, 6 days ago.1.0×07.2k4238
97Sep 13, '19Appeals court rules parents of slain DNC staffer can sue Fox News1.0×05.3k1.3k19
98Dec 7, '19signs you may not be hiring the best attorneys 1) they send formal legal letters in Comic Sans 2) they sign formal legal letters with a Sharpie 3) you aren't paying them, but a com0.9×05.6k1.1k19
99Apr 3, '20My gym just charged my credit card the usual monthly fee for a service they have no intention of providing, given that all gyms are closed and everyone at the gym has already been 0.9×05.5k69623
100Jul 6, '21finally, a weather channel that tells you the forecast you want to hear0.9×05.6k66222

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