Former public servant. Now just a concerned private citizen.
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Chris Lu retweeted
You’ve literally controlled Congress for the past two years. And apparently, there’s always been money for vanity projects. But none to fix our air traffic control system?
Perhaps Trump should prioritize aviation safety over his pathetic Arch.
Chris Lu retweeted
Another day, another worrying US inflation statistic.
PPI (basically business inflation) is +6.5% in the past year. That's even hotter than the ~4% consumer inflation.
Businesses are almost certainly going to pass some of those higher costs onto consumers. It's yet another worrisome inflation risk heading into 2027.
And no, it's not all diesel/gas.
PPI excluding food and energy = +5.0%
CPI excluding food and energy = +2.8%
Chris Lu retweeted
This is disgraceful. According to new reporting, Pete Hegseth pulled decorated officers from promotion lists after merit boards had already selected them.
Staff printed out internet searches showing that officers had spoken at a Hispanic Heritage Month event, joined an International Women’s Day panel, or encouraged sailors to get vaccinated.
Those printouts went into files the officers never saw, and they were used to end careers built over decades.
On one Navy board, every woman and person of color who had been selected, except one, was removed.
Every American should want the most qualified leaders in charge of our military, and these men and women earned their stars.
Hegseth must come before Congress, testify under oath, and answer for his decisions.
He has no business hiding while he sabotages careers.
ms.now/news/pete-hegseth-pen…
Chris Lu retweeted
1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.
This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
Chris Lu retweeted
Stephen Miller is Trump’s shot across the incoming Democrats’ bow, if not an outright declaration of war. @VanityFair @Substack @HarperCollins @HarvardIOP @DougDucey @NathalieRayes @AliMayorkas @ChrisLu44 @costareports @JamesCarville @thecrimson @HarvardPolitics @OfficialYPU
“On paper, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever” to appoint Stephen Miller as chief of staff, says journalist Chris Whipple (@ccwhip), whose reporting has offered an inside look at Susie Wiles and the Trump administration.
“Above all, he or she has to be the honest broker of information. There’s nothing more important than that. … Miller is the polar opposite of what you would think of as an honest broker.”
Chris Lu retweeted
It was a great October jobs report, but that doesn't erase this painful fact: Inflation has wiped out all wage gains for 7 straight months.
Average wage gains in past year: 3.1%
Inflation: ~3.5% (we'll get the latest data Tuesday)
In fact, the inflation resurgence has been so strong that it's basically wiped out all wage gains since January 2025.
That was the key voting issue in the mid-term elections.
#economy #jobs #inflation
Chris Lu retweeted
In the end Republicans only won 1 new seat out of their mid decade redistricting
2024 seats ➡️ 2026 seats
LA 🔵 2 ➡️ 🔵 1
TN 🔵 1 ➡️ 🔵 1
FL 🔵 8 ➡️ 🔵 8
AL 🔵 2 ➡️ 🔵 2
TX 🔵 13 ➡️ 🔵 14
OH 🔵 5 ➡️ 🔵 8
NC 🔵 4 ➡️ 🔵 10-11
Chris Lu retweeted
Texas Democrats
—flipped a U.S. Senate seat
—flipped Governor
—flipped control of the state House, flipping at least 14 seats (likely more)
—flipped control of the Texas Board of Education
—flipped attorney general
—flipped 4 seats on the Texas Supreme Court
—flipped 3 seats on the Court of Criminal Appeals
—flipped 3 seats on a key Court of Appeals the GOP just created
—flipped lieutenant governor
—flipped controller
—flipped agriculture commissioner
—flipped land commissioner
—flipped railroad commissioner
—flipped Tarrant County executive, & commission
—flipped Tarrant County district attorney
—flipped back Fort Bend executive
—flipped Williamson County executive
Chris Lu retweeted
Any day of the week, Michiganders care more about the price of gas or groceries than the daily political drama or the last-minute moves by politicians for the TV cameras.
I was knocking doors in Sterling Heights yesterday and to a house, those folks were hyper-focused on how expensive everything in their life seems to be, and they’re desperately worried — often in tears — about the future for their kids.
And it is for that reason that I have avoided commenting on the actions of Congresswoman Haley Stevens until now.
But there is simply too much at stake. We have to be focused on the mission at hand. That mission is to put a check on President Trump in the U.S. House and Senate, and do the hard work of saving the middle class.
So anyone who makes an election this important about themselves, and not Michiganders and our democracy, should think hard about whether they are serving the greater good.
People outside of Michigan sometimes have a hard time understanding our politics. And in moments like these, I get it.
But here’s the simple truth: The election on Tuesday is bigger than any one person. It’s about who we are as a country and the values that most represent us.
Michigan elects fighters, and we will elect @AbdulElSayed on November 3.
Chris Lu retweeted
🚨Democrats lead Republicans 63%–26% among likely voters ages 18–29 in our Harvard Youth Poll.
63% of #GenZ say their midterm vote is opposition to Trump and his policies.
Young voters are poised to deliver a sharp rebuke. Here’s what’s driving it. 🧵
Chris Lu retweeted
SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
Chris Lu retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.
We have photos.
Chris Lu retweeted
Trump just waived all of the sanctions on Russia provided for in the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia Act, just as I and others warned he would.
Trump’s latest surrender to Putin again betrays our Ukrainian partners and defies clear congressional intent of legislation designed to punish Russia for its illegal war of aggression.
Trump has proven he will twist this law and abuse the powers it conferred on him, and while he has let the tariff powers lie for the moment, the law as written also empowers Trump to weaponize new trade authorities against our allies and trading partners.
Congress must fix this flawed law to stop Trump from capitulating to Putin and ensure that it truly supports Ukraine.
Trump order just issued from the White House:
“I am hereby waiving the application of such sanctions, restrictions, and duties [on Russia] provided for in the Graham Act.”
whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
Chris Lu retweeted
President Trump’s diesel fuel supply deal with Vladimir Putin is a lose-lose. The amounts are too small to have a meaningful, sustained effect on the record prices American drivers, truckers, shippers, farmers, ranchers and homeowners are paying at the pump, which are largely a result of Trump’s war of choice against Iran. But the deal does throw Putin a lifeline to continue his war of aggression against Ukraine (which Trump promised to end in 24 hours), the other contributor to record high diesel prices. How is this good for America?
apnews.com/article/trump-rus…
Chris Lu retweeted
WOW — Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) takes a major whack at Trump’s Iran MOU
Wicker says the $300B fund “would make Iran’s payoff under President Obama’s 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison”
Chris Lu retweeted
Reagan is rolling over in his grave. Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal.
Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.
