I really encourage all of you to share your thoughts and observations using life at urban. We encourage you to ask questions by emailing event at urban. Org. We will make a point to use these questions in the q a portion of the program. Im excited to join the Tax Policy Center and i thank you for important issues surrounding our states fiscal futures. The panel would examine obstacles and opportunities, governors and legislatures will face in the decision as they passed a budget. The budget this year of the budget process this year appears to be exoptionally challenging. But federal policy will look like in a wide range of areas. As the new administration fans at the new policies are shaped, its important to recall many programs being discussed are implemented at the state and local level. Educating children, building roads, the social safety net is largely done by state and local governments of federal funds paper 130 state expenditures. The federal government through provision of fun
Panel because we are rushed for time. Im pleased to have ted mccannis from the house of representatives, Bob Greenstein and this morning and now were going to talk about a way away from the academics and talking more about the practice al issues associated with implementation. We spent the morning talking about the evidence and Academic Studies and making sure studies are done well and are identified about the effects of policies and this would have been a reasonable question, i think, a year ago or two years ago. I think we feel like it maybe is a more important question now. Does evidence matter to the political process . Do these studies have an effect and if so how . I think it matters a lot. I think that in my experience in new york and in new york state, new york city, we paid attention to evidence and outcomes and it had an effect on how you do your debate. I do think you have to be careful about overstating the evidence and you cant oversell and you think you have to know your
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Love are you and ned ryan who joins us from cpac. Was it as electric as it looked to us on tv . It looked like he had the crowd eating out of his hand. The energy, the excitement. Multiple standing ovations. He had to tell the crowd to sit down multiple seems. Ed the one line that stood out to me is the gop will become the party of the American Worker. If trump can do that between now and 2020, he shored up 9 conservative vote with neil gorsuch he will win the next election hands down. Charles last year donald trump was not at cpac. But its been a long time and and lot has changed. What did you make of whats going on now and not on the reception, but the remaking of the conservative movement . Throughout the year President Trump stuck to his agenda. He won people like the tea party over to his promises. Way saw today as i watched his speech is hes continuing to advocate the same agenda he ran on. Hes keeping his promises and we have every reason to believe he will continue to do that.
Love are you and ned ryan who joins us from cpac. Was it as electric as it looked to us on tv . It looked like he had the crowd eating out of his hand. The energy, the excitement. Multiple standing ovations. He had to tell the crowd to sit down multiple seems. Ed the one line that stood out to me is the gop will become the party of the American Worker. If trump can do that between now and 2020, he shored up 9 conservative vote with neil gorsuch he will win the next election hands down. Charles last year donald trump was not at cpac. But its been a long time and and lot has changed. What did you make of whats going on now and not on the reception, but the remaking of the conservative movement . Throughout the year President Trump stuck to his agenda. He won people like the tea party over to his promises. Way saw today as i watched his speech is hes continuing to advocate the same agenda he ran on. Hes keeping his promises and we have every reason to believe he will continue to do that.