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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
Today’s Difficult Budget Negotiations Will Be Far More Difficult as Shelves Go Bare
/88 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelEven if nothing changed, Republican negotiations over cutting spending and retroactively sanctioning the disasters Elon Musk caused would be difficult enough. But something is about to change. The pain of Trump’s self-imposed tariff catastrophe will start to hit as negotiations go forward.
Three Coequal Timelines of Government
/59 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThe timeline for the Republican Congress to pass a budget codifying Trump’s policies is slipping, now as late as July. That means it is increasingly likely that as Trump seeks near-unanimous Republican support for his agenda in the coming months, the economy will be in a trade war induced meltdown.