Jessica Riedl

I now have a Substack page. One place for current & past studies, op-eds, testimonies, videos, speeches, economic policy links, and anything else I decide to post. Open replies too. Best of all - subscribing is 100% free, all-access. www.jessicariedl.blog

Some voters got mad about people listing their pronouns, so now we're sending law-abiding, legal immigrants to torture prisons and being hit with the largest middle class tax hike in at least 40 years.

This is pretty devastating. Lutnick admits that tariffs were never about reciprocity, eliminating foreign trade barriers, or negotiating better deals. They just don't like international trade. Period. He even says about imports: "we don't want other people making them."

NEW from me @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social - What's been happening with bond auctions & interest rates? - What was Treasury's "Bond buyback" response and did it work? - How does a debt-and-interest-rate spiral work & what are the risks? All addressed here: thedispatch.com/article/bond...

NEW from me in @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social. Congress spent two decades designing a web of budget laws & rules to constrain budget deficits - and then quietly & systematically destroyed every one of them so that it could turn surpluses into $1.8 trillion deficits. 🧵 thedispatch.com/article/new-...

NEW from me in @theatlantic.com. The left and right are both trapped in lazy, false Social Security narratives. For the right, its blaming immigrants & the trust fund raid. For the left, its that lifting the cap painlessly brings solvency. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

NEW from me. Each year, 100-200 young people message me seeking career advice. So I wrote a guide for younger people seeking a career in the Washington D.C. policy community. It includes 4 main keys to landing your first DC job or internship, & career advice. www.jessicariedl.blog/p/so-you-wan...

NEW from me @reason.com. Can AI drastically cut budget deficits and even balance the budget - as Musk & Amodei suggest? I estimate AI budget effects on productivity, revenues, job displacement benefits, Social Security, health, DOD, interest, govt jobs, & govt admin. 🧵 reason.com/2026/06/16/e...

NEW from me. A short blog post walking through how the CBO's (already scary) budget baseline likely under-estimates the 30-year debt projection by 68% of GDP. That means the federal debt outlook is $62 trillion(!) worse than is commonly-reported. 🧵 www.jessicariedl.blog/p/federal-de...

NEW from me. My cover story in today's @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social steps back and provides a basic primer on why soaring federal debt matters for the economy and the federal budget. 🧵 thedispatch.com/article/debt...

NEW from me: The 2026 version of my chart book. It is 132 pages of charts that defy liberal & conservative conventional wisdom about spending, taxes, deficits, debt, and even presidential fiscal performance. A career of federal budget expertise in picture form. 🧵 www.brookings.edu/articles/202...

NEW from me in @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social. Voters continue to rate inflation as a top priority & punish inflationary presidents. Yet Biden & now Trump continue to pursue highly inflationary policies and even mock & dismiss voters' concerns. Why don't they care? 🧵 thedispatch.com/article/trum...

NEW from me. My new report continues my series on presidential fiscal records with a full, granular accounting of the Biden fiscal record. The main figure: $6.6 trillion in added ten-year deficits due to legislation and executive orders. 🧵 www.brookings.edu/articles/bid...