On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he thinks President Joe Biden’s staff overprotects him and that the President should be out in public more. Brooks also said that from what he hears from inside
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he doesn’t think doing budgeting through negotiations over the debt ceiling is the best way to do things, “this is the only mechanism we seem to have,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that there is currently not a sense among the American people that the border is being controlled and that the Biden administration has pivoted its immigration position toward the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks defended giving 2024 presidential candidate former President Donald Trump a live platform — like CNN did in a town hall earlier this week — by arguing that the media’s job
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden will change course and negotiate over raising the debt ceiling, and that while he doesn’t think there should be conditions attached to raising the debt ceiling, “the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he likes President Joe Biden’s soul of America messaging because the election is a contrast “between a moral vision and an amoral realism” that is represented in the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the White House has to be concerned that President Joe Biden is facing fairly close 2024 presidential election polling and an approval rating below 50% despite “improving inflation,”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the John Edwards case — where prosecutors were unable to secure a conviction — is the case that has the most similarity to the New York case against former President
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “We’re in the middle of a cold war with China” and technology like TikTok is “the battlefield” in this cold war. Brooks said, “We’re in the middle of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the federal government wouldn’t have been so quick to act if Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was located outside of Silicon Valley and the federal government acted so quickly
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the federal budget has the same sort of reliance on low interest rates that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) had and this is especially a problem since “inflation is
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he agrees with the part of President Joe Biden’s student loan program for Pell Grant recipients, the Supreme Court should strike the program down because the President
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he does think expanding the child tax credit worked, there isn’t the political will for it because, in addition to a general distrust of government programs that
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he believes “For sure” that the war between Russia and Ukraine will go on for another year, but the West will remain strong in support of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while President Joe Biden’s exchange with Congressional Republicans over entitlement spending during the State of the Union made Democrats happy, “there was no shot” Republicans were ever going to support
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the classified documents story has gotten worse for the White House because we know “they were hoping to deep-six it so it would never come out.” And the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Democrats need to have a plan to raise the debt ceiling that offers concessions to Republicans because of the leverage held by the “nihilistic wing” of the party
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Republicans in the House will want to attach certain provisions, like a balanced budget amendment as an example, to any plan to increase the country’s debt ceiling over the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the teachers’ unions deserve coal for Christmas for the increases in inequality, harm to social mobility, and harm to “the lifelong prospects of a generation of young people”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he thinks White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain deserves credit for the “good year” that President Joe Biden and the White House have had. Host Judy Woodruff
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he thinks it’s a good thing that a government shutdown is likely to be avoided, the government has just been passing “emergency spending bills that seem to
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he believes the prisoner swap for Brittney Griner was the right thing to do, but it does show the U.S. will free bad people to get American citizens home, but
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the federal government intervening to prevent a rail strike will give companies an advantage in negotiations and creates a moral hazard like the bank bailouts in 2008 and
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that voters in the 2022 midterm elections said that “we don’t like the Democrats,” but at the end of the day, the best summary is that the voters “preferred a party that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he likes elections because instead of the media controlling the conversation, like they do most of the time, “a lot of people get to control the conversation.” And
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “immigration is just a huge void for the Democratic Party. They do not have a clean story to tell. They do not have a policy that makes people
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that even after reading news articles about the struggles of U.S. Senate candidate and Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), “I was unprepared for how much he was struggling.”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “a lot of Democrats,” “for too long” told voters, “here’s what you should care about, democracy and Dobbs. These are the major issues.” And when the voters responded
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Democrats have failed “to show they have some credibility” on crime or to demonstrate that “Democratic mayors can keep the streets safe.” Brooks said, “I do think there
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he doubts anything coming out of the January 6 Committee will have much of an impact on the upcoming midterm elections because people are “voting on their own
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that we’re not in a situation like the Cuban Missile Crisis and he gets the impression that the Biden administration views the prospect of Russia deploying nuclear weapons as
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that there isn’t anything President Joe Biden can do about gas prices going up in the wake of OPEC+’s decision to cut its oil production, Biden “tried” to keep
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the election results in Italy and Sweden send “a big message for Joe Biden, you’ve got to control the borders. Americans like immigration, but they want control of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that while current weather patterns are alarming and it’s lamentable that climate change discussions have become partisan, combatting climate change requires worldwide, collective action, and he’s “not too optimistic”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he didn’t have any problem with President Joe Biden giving a speech on threats to democracy “he should have called out his own party” for spending millions of dollars
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said the Biden White House pointing to Republican members of Congress who got Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans forgiven to respond to criticism of its student loan program is wrong
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden’s student debt cancellation program is “too politically designed, not economically designed.” And the measure is Democrats “feeding their base. And part of their base happens
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the abortion vote in Kansas is “a vindication of the voters,” that if people have “actual choices, as opposed to extremes in state legislatures, most of the states, the vast
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that inflation is “truly terrible” and the Biden White House “is being too gentle about talking about it, too upbeat” in its rhetoric about inflation. He also said that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he believes that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) had “an intellectual awakening” where he realized that the idea that spending on climate change is inflationary “was just economically wrong”