I’ve heard a lot of questions about my amendment in the @natresources reconciliation title. Let’s clear the air – here are the myths vs. facts.

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With the federal land sales amendment from Rep. Celeste Maloy and Rep. Mark Amodei, we are one step closer to realizing Freedom Cities and expanding access to affordable starter homes.

It’s official: Starbase is now an incorporated city in Texas. With local governance in place, we are excited to continue building the best city for our community.

Not often that new cities are made these days

With Senator Lee's land auction gambit off the table, I hope we can get back to discussing Freedom Cities. I think it is of tremendous importance for Americans to prove to ourselves that we can still build aspirational new towns and cities.

1/ 🇺🇸 Today, California Forever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, America’s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.

Unpopular opinion: you shouldn’t need pre-approval of a bureaucracy to build in America. POTUS should sign an executive order auto-approving every pending permit, reserving the right to bring enforcement later if someone breaks the rules.

‘Freedom Cities’ proposed as zoning laws fuel housing crisis ⁦Fox News⁩

Over the past 50 years, America’s ability to build large construction projects has not just stagnated, it has eroded due to bureaucratic and painful processes. We built physical infrastructure faster, better, and cheaper a century ago than we do today. Proud to invest in

WSJ says SoftBank’s Son is working with the Trump admin on a network of “Trump Industrial Parks” on federal land, aiming to channel part of Japan’s pledged $550B trade-deal money into US AI factories & chip/DC gear, with the US keeping 90% of profits after Japan recoups its stake

The billionaire tech investor Masayoshi Son has big dreams of working closely with the Trump administration to revitalize U.S. manufacturing—and the promise of billions in Japanese cash on.wsj.com/3Ktk3Hy

“.. the administration began pushing for a network of ‘Trump Industrial Parks,’ according to an administration official, with manufacturing infrastructure built on federal land.” 👇🏼

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Every boom town comes and goes. Every one of them. It was, it is and it will be…

Balaji Srinivasan proposes a western version of the special economic zone where builders can operate at the speed of physics, not permits. “The special Elon zone, or more generally, the special founder zone... It’s like an essentially uninhibited territory, as close to Burning

We need a special economic zone like this in the US ASAP

This is critical now. Regulations won’t keep pace with the oncoming wave of change. Failing to create a US zone where progress moves at the speed of physics, not permits, will drive rapid tech advancement overseas and leave us behind.