What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Eddie Teach]

Does that take into account seasonal employment?

[DGuller]

Does that take into account seasonal employment?

I think BLS always reports seasonally adjusted numbers.  It would be bad practice not to do that.

[The Minsky Moment]

The fed rate hike looks a little more justifiable now.

[garbon]

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/03/pelosi-ocasio-cortez-congress-223690

Pelosi 2, Ocasio-Cortez 0
On Day One, the new speaker has already shown progressives who's in charge of the new House

Nancy Pelosi "cannot be seen by her party as being weak on negotiating with Donald Trump," says President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. And "Nancy Pelosi is only looking to protect her speakership ... and that's why she's unwilling to negotiate with us," according to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. These were excuses by the Trump administration to shift blame for the government shutdown. But they also were intended to suggest that Pelosi's hold on the speaker's gavel is tenuous, buffeted by a left-wing insurgency led by ambitious, impatient newcomers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The reality is that Pelosi grabbed the gavel on Thursday with a firm grip. The first two battles led by Ocasio-Cortez and her Instagramming army of rebels ran smack into Pelosi's establishment fortress. When Ocasio-Cortez made waves by loudly demanding a new committee tasked with drafting a "Green New Deal," Pelosi quietly brushed it aside last week, as if to say: Kids, brush up on your Schoolhouse Rock. Then after a meek surrender, Ocasio-Cortez, along with Rep. Ro Khanna, hastily tried to derail restoration of the so-called pay-as-you-go rule or "PAYGO"—a limitation on new spending without offsets that some on the left see as a threat to their big-ticket agenda—only to watch the chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus side with Pelosi and nip the rebellion in the bud.

The Green New Deal gambit is the more significant flop. Ocasio-Cortez led a campaign for a turbocharged climate change committee that would be required to produce a bill zeroing out fossil fuels in 10 years, along with a federal job guarantee to mitigate any economic shocks. She also insisted the committee have subpoena power and only include members of Congress who don't accept contributions from donors in the fossil fuel industry.

None of Ocasio-Cortez's demands were accepted. Instead, in the rules resolution for the new Congress, Pelosi created a Select Committee on the Climate Crisis tasked with proposing climate policy recommendations to existing committees, similar to the process that Pelosi established in her first stint as speaker. The person Pelosi tapped to be chair of the select committee, Rep. Kathy Castor of Florida, made clear that the Green New Deal wouldn't be the sole focus of the committee's work, and that she could not insist that every member reject donations from the fossil fuel industry (though Castor did say she would stop accepting them.) Castor, who is not a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, was likely picked because she has been the No. 2 Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and can be expected to respect that committee's jurisdiction over climate policy.

...

I feel conflicted as I'm now in Nancy's corner.

[FunkMonk]

Does that take into account seasonal employment?

Yes, that is the seasonally adjusted estimate. You can also look up the not seasonally adjusted estimate on their website, if you'd like.

[Oexmelin]

Apparently, Trump threatened to use emergency power to get his wall. Not in concrete, mind you. In steel. Because it's more beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VTpFOswgqA

[garbon]

Is there a relevant time stamp? Ain't nobody got time for that much drivel.

[Oexmelin]

Alas, no, and I don't have the heart to suffer through it again.

But you can see this: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/04/trump-is-considering-using-emergency-powers-to-build-a-border-wall.html

The "artistically designed steel slats" vs "the concrete wall", he has also tweeted about earlier in December. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-slats-border-wall-tweet_us_5c19a48de4b0432554c5518a?ec_carp=5933121930961008106

[FunkMonk]

He also said he was looking into using the "military version of eminent domain" to seize private land for the wall 

[Razgovory]

He also said he was looking into using the "military version of eminent domain" to seize private land for the wall 

  Well a considerable portion of the border is Reservation land, so there is precedent.

[Legbiter]

US employers added a stellar 312,000 jobs in December https://www.apnews.com/f3925762c6f845dfab936b45c28b4176

The TRUMP BUUUUUUUUUMMPPP

Good job Yanks. 

[11B4V]

Alas, no, and I don't have the heart to suffer through it again.

But you can see this: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/04/trump-is-considering-using-emergency-powers-to-build-a-border-wall.html

The "artistically designed steel slats" vs "the concrete wall", he has also tweeted about earlier in December. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-slats-border-wall-tweet_us_5c19a48de4b0432554c5518a?ec_carp=5933121930961008106

Mexico's paying for it. They will just be billed later. No worries.

[celedhring]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwMZEHrV4AEvW9d.jpg:large

Has he actually watched the show? Somebody tell him that when it counts the wall ends up not working.

[Monoriu]

Apparently, Trump threatened to use emergency power to get his wall. Not in concrete, mind you. In steel. Because it's more beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VTpFOswgqA

So what stops him from doing that?  Why just talk about it?  Why not just go ahead and do it?

[jimmy olsen]

Trump's real estate experience coming to the fore. When in doubt, evict some poor people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-shutdown-drags-on-trump-officials-seek-novel-ways-to-cope-with-its-impacts/2019/01/06/96c54a50-11ee-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html?utm_term=.8189863d655f

The Department of Housing and Urban Development sent letters to 1,500 landlords Friday as part of a last-minute effort to prevent the eviction of thousands of tenants. A lot of those tenants live in units covered by a HUD program that many agency officials didn't realize had expired on Jan. 1 and that they are now unable to renew.

The letters instruct the landlords to use their reserve accounts so that no one is evicted, HUD spokesman Jereon Brown said. He said the budget and contract staff are "scouring for money" to figure out how to fund the contracts on an interim basis.