TALKIN’ POLITICS

1. True Or False
   1. Katie Britt…
   2. https://www.axios.com/2024/03/08/katie-britt-biden-state-of-the-union-response
   3. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) gave a rebuke of President Biden's border and immigration policies in her Republican State of the Union response from her home.
   4. Why it matters: The speech from the freshman senator is a stark example of how Republicans continue to make immigration and border security their top election year issue.
   5. Britt also took aim at Biden's economic record, hitting the president on inflation after he trumpeted wins on the economy in his speech.
   6. The Alabama senator criticized Biden's foreign policy even as he led his State of the Union with pushing Republicans to pass aid to Ukraine.
2. Yeah…No
   1. No Labels is all in 
   2. https://www.axios.com/2024/03/08/no-labels-2024-presidential-ticket
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3. Yeah… Yeah!
   1. New Method for student loan benefits through employment
   2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertfarrington/2024/01/25/employers-can-now-match-student-loans-with-retirement-contributions/?sh=2cf4d479a331
   3. Employers Can Now Match Student Loans With Retirement Contributions
   4. The SECURE 2.0 Act includes a range of benefits meant to help consumers boost their retirement savings, and some of the most prominent changes have to do with required minimum distributions (RMDs), automatic enrollments in retirement plans and 529 to Roth plan rollovers. The passage of this act also makes it possible for employers to reward their workers with contributions to retirement accounts that are based on how much they pay toward student loans.
   5. MEANWHILE 
   6. Millenial and GenZ feeling the pinch into adulthood
      1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/millennial-gen-z-employees-admit-being-distracted-work-because-rgrwc/
   7. One in four of the country’s more than 129 million privately employed workers have student loan debt, and now that student loan payments have resumed for the first time in three years, employees are increasingly looking to their employers for help.
   8. As a result, benefits that address student loan debt and education expenses specifically will go from being a nice-to-have to a need-to-have benefit for employers to offer.
   9. 
       
4. Buy/Sell
   1. Sinema’s retirement is good for the Dem’s Senate hopes in 2024
      1. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/05/congress/sinema-not-running-00144995
      2. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced she will not run for reelection this year, setting up a race between Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego and Republican Kari Lake to succeed her.
      3. The first-term senator, who left the Democratic Party to become an independent, said she believes in her deal-making approach to politics, "but it's not what America wants right now."
5. 2024 Election Era
   1. Biden’s unfair pricing strike force: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/05/biden-strike-force-unfair-illegal-prices
   2. Biden on the offensive: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/05/biden-new-strategy-attack-trump-2024-election
   3. Came through in the SOTU
      1. Tone was strong: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/03/08/bidens_state_of_the_union_address_strikes_campaign_tone.html
      2. Performance was downright 
   4. RNC new leadership - which is a technical title not a statement of their power
      1. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4519117-rnc-elects-leadership-michael-whatley-lara-trump/
      2. GOP members driven out with Trumps appointment of Trump
      3. https://www.rawstory.com/gop-exodus-lara-trump/
      4. 
          
   5. The Trump/Haley/Biden voter?
   6. https://www.semafor.com/article/03/08/2024/the-man-behind-haley-voters-for-biden-on-his-post-primary-pivot
   7. Trump mocking Biden’s stutter on Saturday
   8. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rally-biden-stutter/
   9. FBI says GOP big witness in Biden probe was using his position as personal
   10. Benefit while making up stories to keep his special situation https://www.rawstory.com/biden-witness-lies/

Last Call

The world with NEITHER - The CoDependents of Trump & Biden

1. Biden and Trump are codependents https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-biden-codependency-theyre-so-weak-theyd-lose-to-virtually-anyone-else-6b9899fa?mod=opinion_lead_pos9
2. Project 2025 seems to be a perfect microcosm of this phenomenon 

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/08/2024/how-project-2025-became-the-biden-campaigns-favorite-target

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