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That law is pretty much the basis for Treasury sanctions. Congress won’t revoke it.

Bukele enjoys popular support because the alternative to his massive anti gang measures is having the highest intentional murder rate in the world.

The murder rate had declined precipitously in El Salvador before Bukele took office.

The three years after he got into office saw a decline not because of his iron-fisted, policies, but because he continued the previous administrations policies of negotiating with and mediating between the gangs. There are also serious questions as to whether or not their current numbers are even accurate.

I don’t see him being a beneficiary of his anti-gang measures as much as he has been a beneficiary of the decline in murder that started before he even took office, the same way a GOP Governor in certain red states got to take credit and an approval bump for Medicaid expansions that they opposed. As an outsider, the whole situation seems to me a lot more fragile than it’s protrayed.

There’s a gotdang Cheeto Doctor Who in the White House

The two other votes were Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley.

I just hope they get vetted well. Rapid expansion of forces and poor security vetting is reportedly how Israel infiltrated Hezbollah since 2006.

Is Aoun at risk of losing his mandate if this just keeps happening while he does nothing except make trips to France saying Israel should stop? The Israelis are clearly trying to restart the civil war as a pretext to reinvade.

Jerome Powell gave a press conference today where he all but used the S-word (stagflation) to describe the Fed’s current economy outlook post-Liberation Day. Should history repeat itself, that would mean Neo-Reagan is probably 6-8 years away.