Commerce Department finds China has illegally subsidized solar panel manufacturing and moves to impose tariffs.
Not sure this is going to get the level of attention it deserves or that most political reporters will call it what it is: Paul Ryan today unveiled the new House Budget, which doubles down on Ryan’s previously announced plan to end Medicare as a source of guaranteed health care benefits for the elderly. It’ll still be called Medicare, but it will be Medicare in name only.
We’ve covered this ad nauseam, but it hasn’t really penetrated elite consciousness, let alone broader public awareness. (Incredibly obtuse fact-checking on the issue has compounded the problem.) But here we sit less than eight months before the election, with Republicans firmly and irrevocably on record as planning to dismantle Medicare. No guaranteed benefits. Period. End of sentence. Read More
A new poll from PPP out today gives Elizabeth Warren a 5-point lead over Scott Brown. That’s the first poll in a while giving Warren the lead. The TPM Poll Average shows Brown ahead by 4.2 points: Read More
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) in today’s House Armed Services Committee hearing: The U.S. is borrowing money from “Uncle Chang” to fund the war in Afghanistan. Watch.
Michelle Obama spokesperson says De Niro’s white First Ladies joke was “inappropriate,” NBC News reports.
Campaigning in Louisiana, Newt Gingrich demands President Obama apologize for Robert DeNiro’s “inexcusable” joke at last night’s fundraiser.
Big international trade decision coming today on whether China is dumping solar panels on the U.S. market.
TPM Reader MD weighs in on press coverage of the Obama kids:
Down the Memory Hole? Really?
The White House was firmly reminding the press of the “gentleman’s agreement” regarding the First family’s MINOR children. I am exasperated that this non story is being given an Orwellian twist. There is no THERE there.
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New White House statement on the Paul Ryan budget: “The House economic plan draws on the same wrong-headed theory that led to the worst recession of our lifetimes and contributed to the erosion of middle-class security over the last decade.”