incredible anecdote in one of Phil Jackson’s memoirs: MJ and the Chicago Bulls accidentally drank Gaterlode, a high-carb drink, in an NBA Finals game “Each of the players, it was estimated, had ingested the equivalent of about twenty baked potatoes.” Bulls lost the game

Three new and previously unannounced nominations to U.S. Department of Transportation posts made by the WhIte House yesterday. I think the unnamed AsstSec job is Multimodal Freight but can't be certain yet.

Terrible News: Brookland’s Finest announces it will be closing for good in mid April. - Brookland’s Finest truly lived up to their name. This is a very tough loss. popville.com/2025/03/dc-bro…

BUDGET: House will NOT vote on Senate budget tonight. Speaker Mike Johnson says they will probably vote tomorrow on it

Just broke on CNBC: A WH official confirms to me the new tariff against China this term now totals **145%**, not 125% as the President said yesterday. The EO spells out the “reciprocal” rate jumped from 84% to 125% overnight. Combined with the 20% fentanyl tariff, we’re at 145%

As someone who runs a newsletter, I can attest to this

Happy Donald Rumsfeld IRS letter day to all who celebrate 💸

In case anyone is wondering why Federal Transit Admn seems uniquely vulnerable among U.S. Department of Transportation modes to administrative reorganization plans, it's because the law gives the FTA Administrator nothing specific to do. (All chapter 53 duties are given to the Secretary, not the Administrator.)

Paging Richard Shelby... the White House wants to overturn your HMTF legacy...

I was one of the participants in the survey quoted in this new U.S. GAO report on how to update Federal Highway Admn federal highway formula funding criteria...

Reconciliation Recommendations of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure cbo.gov/publication/61…

The budget scores of the reconciliation bill in a nutshell. Does not include the future reckoning of E&C Medicaid changes on income tax receipts, W&M EV tax credit changes on T&I EV registration fees, etc etc. As reported from committee, not including any later changes.

Breaking ...... SEC all time assist leader Tennessee Basketball Zakai Zeigler is seeking to play a 5th year with a filing today in the Federal Eastern District Court in Knoxville. Ross Dellenger Matt Norlander 1 of 2. Statement from attorneys will follow

I asked ChatGPT to invent 10 new words and they were mostly lame but "nullcraft" is pretty good.

Randy has a good point. This would be a massive scheduling pain for WMATA and Amtrak. And really confusing for people who fly into DCA and go straight to meetings in the District and get there an hour after the meeting has actually started.

Cornyn tells me the Finance draft is just an opening shot

This is important for the House-passed EV registration fee - it is possible it reappears in a subsequent version of the Senate bill.

Interesting…thanks

FedEx founder Fred Smith has died dailymemphian.com/article/52640

Senate clerks finish reading 940 pages of the 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' it took them 15 hours, 54 minutes and 35 seconds to finish it.