When this whole debate began in 2011 the opening message was Republicans want to cut social security and Medicare. Now it's a conversation about work requirements and just sort of cutting discretionary spending across the board. Means that politics have moved in some way more toward Majoritarian politics like these are the more popular things right now.
The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast gets ready for a big week in politics. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott officially kicked off his presidential campaign in North Charleston Monday morning. We also expect the long-teased Ron DeSantis presidential campaign to become a reality this week. And, according to the Treasury Department we are just a week or so away from a possible default on the nation’s debt. National politics reporter at the AP Meg Kinnard and Data Columnist at the Washington Post join the crew to weigh in.
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