Amazingly, on the same day the G.O.P. revealed a plan that hurts the aforementioned groups in order to finance the gigantic corporate tax cut it claims will ultimately trickle down to American workers (despite all evidence to the contrary), the C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs said that, actually, it doesn’t need the cuts. “I can’t say this is the moment where you want the most fiscal stimulus in the market, when we’re mostly at full employment, when GDP last registered at 3 percent,” Lloyd Blankfein said during an interview with Bloomberg TV. “I don’t know that this is the moment that you provide the biggest stimulus.”

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G.O.P. uses tax plan reveal to continue Trump’s beef with Stephen Curry

As you may recall, back in September, Donald Trump devoted a significant portion of his time to feuding with pro-athletes. One of them was Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry, who infuriated the president by saying that he did not want to celebrate his team’s N.B.A. championship win with a visit to the White House. Naturally, that led to Trump retroactively tweeting that Curry was disinvited. And apparently someone in the G.O.P. thought they could—and probably will—win brownie points with the president by bizarrely using Curry as an example of a rich person who might rush to incorporate as an LLC in order to take advantage of the 25 percent pass-through rate.

Billionaire hedge-fund manager decides he’s uncomfortable being called out for his ties to racists

Robert Mercer is a billionaire hedge-fund manager who is largely responsible for the phrase “President Donald Trump,” having poured millions of dollars into the presidential campaign via super PACs. Mercer is also partly to blame for creating a climate in which people felt comfortable expressing wildly racist views, as he bankrolls Breitbart News. Naturally, such activities have resulted in the impression that Mercer, if not a racist himself, has zero problem with such individuals and is more than happy to disseminate their ideas. And while Mercer, who has reportedly argued that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake, didn’t exactly like being described as a white nationalist by one of his now former employees, he didn’t let it stop him from associating with the likes of Steve Bannon and Milo Yiannopoulos, two men who, as Thornton McEnery writes, “have [never] appeared to the general public as anything other than crystal clear on their rather radical views.”