Catherine Rampell
Washington Post
New York, NY, United States
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The House GOP’s plan is to blow up all the plans
There were agreements in place to avoid a government shutdown. Republicans didn’t care. → Read More
We let child poverty soar last year. We could choose differently.
Why did we let an amazingly successful pro-family program lapse? And how could we get it back again? → Read More
The real problem with ‘Bidenomics’
If you want to appeal to American workers, you have to go where they are. → Read More
Republicans and Democrats are falling for the false allure of autarky
American and foreign powers alike are being seduced by autarky — the idea that economies should be as closed off as possible, whatever the consequences. → Read More
Think child care is hard to find now? Wait a couple of months.
Three million kids are expected to lose day care in the months after a significant source of federal funding ends. → Read More
Where do socioeconomic classes mix? Not church, but Chili’s.
Rich and poor are more likely to mingle at Olive Garden than a library or independent business, new research shows. → Read More
A lesson from China’s disappearing data: Nobody hides good news
Party leaders might dismiss gloomy statistics to bolster confidence in the economy. But it has the opposite effect. → Read More
What champions of more IRS funding — me included — got wrong
Advocates of IRS funding probably made Republicans’ work easier. → Read More
DeSantis’s Florida shows the disaster of more competent Trumpism
Trumpism undercuts conservative values even more efficiently when it doesn’t have incompetence to hold it back. → Read More
Earth to politicians: The U.S. has too few immigrants — not too many
More immigrants would help lower inflation. → Read More
How the GOP’s Medicaid work requirements will backfire
The proposed work requirements are a solution in search of a problem. Worse than that, they will create significant new problems. → Read More
Yes, Biden negotiated over the debt limit before. He’s learned his lesson.
How can you tell the GOP’s proposal for curbing deficits isn’t a serious one? Because they tried the same plan before, in 2011. It didn’t work then, either. → Read More
The GOP takes another misguided stab at defunding the tax police
Losing the funding it received last summer will halt the IRS's much-needed transformation. → Read More
There’s a credit crunch all across the country. Here’s why.
It's harder to borrow money today than it was a year ago. → Read More
Sorry, Democrats. You can’t pay for everything solely by soaking the rich.
Dealing with the IRS is no picnic. But that's not the core that skews Americans' perceptions about their tax burden. → Read More
No, Ron DeSantis, the Federal Reserve is not coming for your guns
The governor appears to be invoking conspiracy theories that the left wants to eliminate physical cash so that the Fed can surveil every transaction. → Read More
Budget? Debt ceiling? GOP fiscal plans are nowhere to be found.
Republicans say Biden is MIA on debt talks. But they have yet to specify demands. Or a budget. Or, really, any fiscal plan beyond disagreeing with Democrats. → Read More
The Great Medicaid Purge begins
With pandemic provisions ending, about 1 in 6 Medicaid and CHIP recipients are expected to lose coverage. → Read More
Are all bank deposits insured? The feds must get their story straight.
Lawmakers, journalists and investors have been seeking clarity for over a week now. → Read More
Threatening a U.S. default was bad before. Now, it’s colossally idiotic.
Bank failures make it imperative to raise the debt ceiling now. → Read More