You know what would really help make this important task more doable? Political focus on the reconciliation bill and a roaring economy.
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Dominic Pino
Any political capital that is spent on assuaging concerns over tariffs can’t be spent on the reconciliation bill.
That’s the topic of my latest piece for the Washington Post:
Reform is long overdue, particularly because of perverse incentives that inflate costs: Medicaid is supposed to be a program for the poor and disabled, funded jointly by the federal government and the states. Over time, however, the money has increasingly come from the federal government, and the program has expanded to cover about one in five Americans. It also expanded quickly during the Biden administration, with spending growing at over 9 percent per year in fiscal 2021 through 2023. . . .
Unfortunately, Trump’s tariffs are getting in the way of both. His scattershot tariff announcements have many Republicans scared about political fallout from a slowing economy. Any political capital that is spent on assuaging concerns over tariffs can’t be spent on the reconciliation bill.
And a slowing economy is one where more people will request welfare assistance.
Read the whole thing here.