Ezra and Matt on Trump's pseudo-federalism and Pelosi's strange aversion to automatic stabilizers.
Resources:
"Nancy Pelosi says Democrats opted against putting federal aid on autopilot in their $3 trillion coronavirus spending package to avoid amplifying sticker shock" by Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Business Insider
"Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies" by Christopher DeMuth, WSJ
"Federalism Is an Asset" by Danielle Allen, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Josh Simons, & Carmel Shachar, Harvard
References:
Recession Ready: Fiscal Policies to Stabilize the American Economy, The Hamilton Project
Fix recessions by giving people money - The Weeds, featuring Claudia Sahm
The case for subsidized jobs - The Weeds, featuring Indi Dutta-Gupta
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