Twitter has brought me in contact with a handful of people who I often disagree with - and yet we can have a productive conversation and occasionally see one another’s points. If you are one of those people, then thank you. You make this place better.
"It’s a sign that Senate Republicans in particular have remembered that they run an independent branch of the federal government, with its own responsibility to voters and its own duty to uphold the Constitution and the laws it writes. They should go two steps further: bar Trump from reviving the idea, and ensure that future presidents are no longer empowered to engage in similar mischief."
I wrote a quick rant about why I'm landing so hard in the skeptical corner of the data center debate, this is more just letting off steam and trying to make it clear why my hair's a little on fire about it.
Fingers crossed for the waiver to continue to the end of Trump’s term - and then for the next president to have no appetite to reinstate the Jones Act.
We are going to save the Great Salt Lake.
As the only Utahn on the House Appropriations Committee, I helped secure an initial $10 million to create a new Great Salt Lake Watershed Recovery Program. This is the first step toward delivering President Trump’s $1 billion commitment to help save the lake.
I look forward to working with the White House, Congress, and Utahns to deliver on one of our most pressing issues.
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This is dumb, but it won’t matter. No one is building coal plants in the U.S. and $700 million isn’t going to change their minds.
Also - the president has no authority to spend that money without Congress.
Fantastic news to see the Geothermal Energy Advancement Act pass the House with broad bipartisan support.
This is the kind of smart policy that will rapidly accelerate deployment in the geothermal sector.
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Optimism is a political choice.
“Optimists start businesses; optimists move to new, dynamic communities; and optimists invite others to join in their endeavors.”
“This all points to why Congress, not the president, is supposed to be responsible for setting tariffs and trade policy. The legislative process would have prevented many of these tariffs—that the White House is scrambling to roll back—from being implemented in the first place.”
If tariffs were paid for by people outside the United States, why is Trump dumping or cutting a slew of them on farm equipment and related things? Because even he knows they raise prices, writes @EricBoehm87 at @reason https://t.co/E7ThuMu1qQ
The way to ensure the Trump retribution fund is more than mostly dead would be for Congress to put a stake through it. https://t.co/tOAAZPF9TF via @WSJopinion
NEW: Senate Republican lobbies Pentagon on stalled wind permits. Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker said today he's working to "get some resolution to the problem" that Dems say is a top barrier to reaching a permitting reform deal. w/@ameliadavidson_ https://t.co/UH9yn2oP8J
One of the many issues - there's no downside for lawmakers going full slopulist here. Block data centers, people who don't realize it's a normal part of the economy cheer. When people get mad their AI isn't working bc we don't have enough data centers, they'll blame the companies