Joshua Smith

Currently: Policy Director, @SenateBudget / @SenJeffMerkley. When I grow up: Major League Baseball-Playing Supreme Court Justice.

[Save East Po @SaveEastPo]

Good article today from the NYT. I have still yet to hear one good reason why we should get rid of a broad, multi purpose space to satisfy one thing and one thing only. It defies imagination and what PUBLIC space is meant to be.
https://t.co/bUfi1Y0R6m

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

@Brendan_Duke MLS switching from a summer season to a winter one is quite the bait-and-switch! Maybe the league should cover the cost of new roofs on all the cold-weather outdoor stadiums built with the understanding games wouldn’t be played in the cold. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 @ArthurDelaneyHP]

[president dumps huge pile of White House debris on East Potomac Park]

The President: behold Trash Island

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

Tearing down the East Wing and ruining the Reflecting Pool are bad, but symbolically so. This makes the experience of living in DC as a normal person – turning a place for cycling, fishing, birding, picnicking, and cheap golf into a playground for the rich – materially worse.

[Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix]

Trump announces plans for the redeveloped East Potomac Park golf course.

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

lol

[Josh Dawsey @jdawsey1]

Our latest: https://t.co/4hJxleIjCn

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

@Brendan_Duke @JHWeissmann @bfurnas My son said this about Great Wolf Lodge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

The most recent non-Trump violaiton of the Impoundment Control Act was in 2006 under W.

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

This makes nine (9!) seperate times in less than two years that the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has determined the President has illegally withheld Congressinally appropriated funds. https://t.co/Tw5GsdZVCn

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

This makes nine (9!) seperate times in less than two years that the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has determined the President has illegally withheld Congressinally appropriated funds. https://t.co/Tw5GsdZVCn

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

The President broke the law by illegally withholding funds to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. https://t.co/s5RCNhtYUA

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

The President also broke the law by illegally witholding funds from EPA's Community Change Grants program, part of the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants Program, and illegally terminating the grants. https://t.co/0yKgJZJs4D

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

This app is free

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

Every $1 spent on flood adaptation saves $1.80 in federal disaster recovery costs. Seems like a good investment imo

[U.S. CBO @USCBO]

CBO examines how spending for flood adaptations today might affect the federal government's potential costs for disaster relief later, and what households are likely to pay for flood insurance that is subsidized by the federal government. https://t.co/Euu7BMGNjs

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

This is a load-bearing "provided that."

“I applaud this administration,” [Mark Iwry, a former senior Treasury official] said, “provided these measures are implemented responsibly, in good faith, and free of conflicts of interest, corruption, and ulterior motives.”

[Richard Rubin @RichardRubinDC]

New from us:

Last week's Trump Accounts changes mean that millions of kids will get individual stocks that they can't reject and can't sell for five years.

https://t.co/7GWMvW4WJX

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

This is a very good essay. https://t.co/FqGjD8CDqX

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

JFC

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The official launch video for the new Warner Bros/Paramount merged company — Skydance.

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

Come on now. This can't be real.

[Sadie Gurman @sgurman]

DOJ is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation. W @PhilipWegmann
https://t.co/1AuZ47w9wB

[Samantha Handler @sn_handler]

News in Punchbowl News Midday:

Merkley and Murray will try to UC a bill later today that would block the White House’s pocket rescission

[Erik Wasson @elwasson]

The non-binding document on super intelligence says Trump is president of the “Unites” States

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

Man, Jack Smith missed a great game. Steph hung 60!

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

Neat! "The Extent to Which Selected Cybersecurity Controls for IT Security Rules Were Implemented or Followed at the Reviewed Agencies Could Not Be Determined Based on the Information Provided"

[Joshua Smith @smithmachine]

"DOGE: Congress and the Public Lack Assurance That Systems and Data Were Protected at Multiple Agencies."

Oh. https://t.co/mBOEfcGg98