William Harrison

@USGAO, @AmeriCorps, @RutgersU & @DeanCollege; @NJGOV & @WaystarRoyco byproduct; Acting Assistant Deputy Retweeter-In-Chief (AADRIC)

[Niskanen Center @NiskanenCenter]

Federal housing policy has spent decades subsidizing homes. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act makes housing cheaper to build in the first place.

3 provisions we're especially excited about, as we wait for it to become law ⬇️

[John Bresnahan @bresreports]

🚨🚨Maine Democratic Party calls on Platner to withdraw from Senate race

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

Well, it took an Australian to fix American manufacturing.

This week we sit down with Power, Chris Power - @2112Power - the boss at @HadrianInc. Hadrian has a growing empire of software-infused manufacturing machines building things faster and better across the U.S.

In this episode, we get into Chris's journey and the state of American manufacturing and how dire/hopeful things really are. Consider this your first 4th of July weekend feast.

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
04:07 From Melbourne to LA
07:37 The Thesis He Chose
10:00 America Gave the Farm Away
14:46 Why We Can't Rebuild Missiles
19:08 Automating a Master Machinist?
24:38 From Parts to Whole Missiles
29:19 The China Problem
33:40 How Far Behind Are We?
41:45 Answering the Critics
45:22 Can Anyone Copy @elonmusk?
53:03 An American Shenzhen?

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New: Simon & Schuster says "Regime Change," by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, has sold "more than 300,000 copies across all formats through the first week on sale in the U.S., making it the best week one sales of any hardcover nonfiction book published so far this year."

@maggieNYT @jonathanvswan

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

In the first six months of 2025, top Trump officials used at least 13 Signal chats with names like "Iran/Ukraine Planning" and "State USAID."

Dan Caine was the admin of a Signal group with Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio that was set to automatically delete messages after 8 hours. https://t.co/E9R9wxnK7f

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

Gambling is one of those problems where a bunch of people are freely making very bad choices.

@JosephPolitano lays out more than a dozen ways we could regulate the gambling industry.

Some of my favorites are the pro-gambler, anti-house reforms. Read more at @TheArgumentMag

https://t.co/WmzNRfcGIs

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

FED'S HAMMACK: INFLATION IS STILL TOO HIGH, FED MAY NEED TO CONSIDER RATE HIKES

[535 News @the535news]

One year later, @CongBoyle says the One Big Beautiful Bill Act left lower-income Americans worse off while benefiting the wealthiest households.

“If you’re in the bottom one-third of American households, you are poorer today as a result of that legislation passing a year ago. But if you’re in the top 1%, you made out like a bandit.”

Watch on https://t.co/zyoatX86tM

[535 News @the535news]

.@TXRandy14 tells @BrodyMullinsDC permitting reform is moving — and lawmakers are already working on legislation.

“Permitting needs to take place with all these energy companies. They’ve got to move fast. We actually are working on a bill.”

Watch on https://t.co/J0OwcLBRQw

[Meredith Lee Hill @meredithllee]

Speaker Johnson adds this morning on the housing bill, which he plans to talk with President Trump about more:

“I'm encouraging him to sign it, but it's going to become law one way or the other.”

[David Wildstein @wildstein]

Read the full proposed New Jersey State Budget for Fiscal Year 2027.

https://t.co/k1rPlCRAZt

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

New research from @nytimes finds that the US government is actively doing "critical minerals" deals with FOURTEEN different companies that have financial ties to the Trump and/or Lutnick families - deals worth around $9 billion in all:

[Semafor @semafor]

The White House has decided to place limits of OpenAI's new model release, following in its footsteps of placing restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5.

@Eleanor_Mueller has the latest on the White House's latest concerns and changing AI policy.

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

The South Dakota GOP is set to vote on a resolution to censure John Thune for “his failure in regards to the SAVE America Act”

The resolution says Thune “holds unique sway and power within the US Senate”

But SAVE doesn’t have the votes. Nor does nuking the filibuster

[Samantha Handler @sn_handler]

CAPITO on housing: “I’m disappointed the president’s not going to sign it, but I think it’s going to go into law, hopefully.

It’s a result of a lot of good hard work. I understand his frustrations.”

[Peter Tulip @peter_tulip]

Relaxing zoning restrictions boosts housing supply and improves affordability.
@JerusalemDemsas argues we need to be clearer that YIMBYism works.

https://t.co/iRhK6RtCBi

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

🚨New data: In the 8 months after H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by 4+ million (-10%) nationwide.

In just the 13 states with available data, 800,000+ fewer kids are receiving SNAP.

https://t.co/HUPBlPSUTa

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

“I will never run for anything leadership in the Senate ever again,” Rick Scott vowed today

But his moves this week left his colleagues with a very different impression

w/ @alweaver22 @reesejgorman

https://t.co/HN02UJwdnJ

[535 News @the535news]

“Privatizing the profits and socializing the costs.”

Sen. @ChrisVanHollen joined 535 to discuss his Power for the People Act and why he says ratepayers should not be left covering the energy and transmission costs tied to new data centers.

[Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway]

$89 billion in orders for $20-25 billion of SpaceX bonds.

Wild.

https://t.co/J5UXTTLokM