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This new spending in the OBBB is all nice-to-haves if we were on stable fiscal footing. But we're not. Pushing these while running wartime level deficits, with interest rates near 5% and lingering inflationary pressures, is out of touch with economic reality.

I've talked to many Republicans in Congress with grave concerns about reconciliation bill in private but then publicly support/vote for it. Threshold theory at work. Only a few members have threshold=0. Many have threshold in 10-20 range. The gap is threshold in single digits.

The newest justification for the $3 tln of debt from the budget bill is that the US is already on an unsustainable fiscal trajectory so this doesn't make things worse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thank you, Secretary Chris Wright, for the shout-out. We at GridUnited are on a mission to build interregional transmission lines to meet rising power demand, lower costs, and strengthen grid reliability. We’re grateful for the partnership with @Energy to bring these projects to life.

Congratulations to Purdue Boilermakers for keeping undergraduate tuition costs frozen for the 14th year in a row. It's a model of fiscal restraint and commitment to student affordability.

Nuclear policy is slowly, but steadily, becoming more rational around the world. "The ban has been formally in place since 2013, but the last time the bank funded a nuclear power project was 1959 in Italy."

The $336 billion in savings and corresponding loss of healthcare access from Medicaid work requirements are illusory. The provisions are too difficult to implement with any integrity. The Senate should look at fraud and abuse in Medicare instead. "Work requirements" is a

If the US truly intends to show more restraint in foreign conflicts, and we're already armed for mutually assured destruction in a potential war with China, why the call for a step change increase in military funding?

Neither side has a coherent policy or affirmative vision of immigration policy despite being among the most important issues of this era.

Just realized that "all-in pricing" that eliminates junk fees for tickets and hotels quietly took effect a few weeks ago. I’d grown so cynical I figured it would get tied up in the courts and never be implemented. Score one for good governance.