Brendan Duke (@Brendan

Brendan Duke

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Brendan Duke

@Brendan_Duke

Tax/budget nerd @CenterOnBudget | Former Biden-Harris National Economic Council tax/budget/supply chains | @amprog /Senate/@JECDems alum | Tweets are mine

Washington, DC

Joined October 2009

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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Jun 12, 2025
Pinning this: I’m happy to debate and mix it up with people on here, but I will gleefully block anyone who doesn’t address me like they would a normal person in a room. Every personal insult fills me with glee that I get to block a keyboard coward.
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
May 5, 2025
Hoo boy.
JD Vance
@JDVance
May 5, 2025
Replying to @JackPosobiec
Prequels were underrated!
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Jan 17, 2025
House GOP is considering taxing TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS in order to help pay for tax cuts for millionaires and corporations.
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Nov 15, 2024
My hot take is that the Republican President nominating RFK Jr as HHS Secretary and 50+ Republican Senators confirming him is the fault of the Republican Party, not the Democratic Party.
Meghan McCain
@MeghanMcCain
Nov 15, 2024
RFK is going to be HHS as a direct result of democrats and Fauchi blatantly lying to mothers in this country, putting our children second behind adults and radicalizing them during COVID.
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Feb 3, 2025
The Republican Party spent all of Obama’s term obsessed with building the Keystone XL pipeline so we could import more oil from Canada. Now they’re spending Trump’s 2nd term angry that we’re importing too much oil from Canada since that’s the reason our bilateral trade deficit.
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Jun 28, 2025
The speed at which he’s running away from his vow to protect Medicaid…haven’t seen him run this fast since January 6, 2021.
Brennan Leach
@brennanleach
Jun 28, 2025
Sen. Hawley, now a YES on ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ says Rs have a “lot of thinking to do” on Medicaid. “We can't be cutting healthcare for working people and for poor people in order to constantly give special tax treatment to corporations,” he told me.
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Apr 3, 2025
Incredible stuff--they wanted to make the thing seem more sophisticated than it is so they threw in two Greek letters but selected values that cancel out so it's still just trade deficit divided by imports.
Kush Desai
@KushDesai47
Apr 3, 2025
This is incorrect. ustr.gov/issue-areas/re…
Readers added context
The formula used in the image specifies a delta tariff rate derived from: ( exports - imports ) / imports This is essentially equivalent to the original post, and includes no terms for the tariff rate charged by the exporting country. ustr.gov/issue-areas/re…
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Mar 29, 2025
Wait, do we get to do this now.
Sean Sweeney
@seandsweeney
Mar 28, 2025
I just spent $95 for two 12” pizzas and a salad. Inflation is obviously completely under control.
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Mar 20, 2025
They start dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and then DoorDash becomes a payday lender a month later.
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
Mar 20, 2025
DoorDash, $DASH, and Klarna have signed a deal where customers can choose to pay for food deliveries in interest-free installments
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Mar 4, 2025
If you made me come up with the dumbest, most regressive tax policy combo I could think of, I would be incapable of topping No Tax on Crypto + a 25% tax on Canadian/Mexican imported goods.
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Jul 2, 2025
"This bill will make 60% of the country poorer so we can shrink the economy by 4.6% over the next 30 years" is one heck of an accomplishment.
Penn Wharton Budget Model
@BudgetModel
Jul 1, 2025
We estimate the Senate-passed reconciliation bill increases primary deficits by $3.1 trillion over 10 years. The dynamic cost, including changes to the economy, is larger at $3.5 trillion. GDP falls by 0.3 in 10 years and falls by 4.6 in 30 years. budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/7/…
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
May 8, 2025
The Liberation Day reciprocal tariff on UK imports was 10% and it's now going to be 10%. Art of the Deal folks.
FinancialJuice
@financialjuice
May 8, 2025
🔴 ⚠️ BREAKING: US-UK trade pact will leave the 10% US tariff in place - CNN.
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Aug 21, 2025
It is stunning to watch the Administration of a President elected to lower prices pull every policy lever imaginable to raise prices.
Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio
Aug 21, 2025
Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers. The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.
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Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
Jan 29, 2025
Hoo boy.
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