“Republicans, when they’re backed into a corner, their natural tendency is to call for tax cuts. I’ve been thinking for a while that that’s the way that this campaign is going to go,” says The New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy. Cassidy joins fellow staff writer Jeffrey Toobin and host Dorothy Wickenden on this week’s Political Scene podcast to talk about the House Republicans’ proposed budget and the coming debates over the economy. They discuss the G.O.P.’s arguments for repealing the Affordable Care Act, consider the Earned Income Tax Credit program as a bipartisan method of tackling poverty, and talk about Hillary Clinton’s still undeclared political positions in the 2016 election. “Especially compared to, say, Barack Obama, in 2008, where you knew that he was running on health care and ending the war in Iraq, it’s pretty opaque at this point what Hillary Clinton’s agenda is,” says Toobin.
Reported by The New Yorker 1 week ago.
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