My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a thick cloud of uncertainty.

Leisure is just the mysticism of every day life. A contemplative practice where one opens themselves to the incomprehensible mystery of God in their daily actions

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Two weeks ago, Marco Rubio said USAID “has little to show since the end of the Cold War.” Days earlier, a Lancet study estimated that USAID global health programs have saved 90 million lives—not since 1991, but since just 2001.

One of the few upsides of all this rain we have been getting lately is that DC is as green as I can ever remember it being. This is the edge of Dumbarton Oaks Park.

Just so I’m clear… he’s introducing a bill….to repeal the bill… he voted for….two weeks ago?

This is the parish in Gaza that Pope Francis would call every night.

This has been the second most humid summer in DC on record (since 1945) based on the number of hours with dew points over 70 degrees or the level considered GROSS.

Still images of Wednesday night's insane lightning display over DC from Kevin Ambrose

I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

“America is an aerospace republic.” Never have words so true yet so underappreciated been uttered.

i genuinely think about and quote this James Baldwin quote almost every day

We all laugh and roll our eyes and yet I am trying to think what the reaction -especially from rightwing media - would have been in 2013 if Obama had showed a foreign dictator around the White House while chuckling and revealing 2016 *third term* merch to him hidden in a closet.

This is the path to deindustrialization, decline, and defeat. American competitors in China don’t do buybacks. They invest.

I will be introducing bipartisan legislation to repeal tariffs on coffee. We produce less than 1%, and these tariffs on Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, & Columbia are a 15-20% tax on Americans at the start of their day. Anyone who has a coffee cup always in hand hates this tax!

There’s one word that comes to mind when I think of Mike Castle: dignity. Riding the train back and forth together to Washington for nearly two decades, I got to know Mike as a thoughtful and kind man — a colleague who became a true friend. Mike was defined by his integrity, and

NEW: In the Sunday New York Times Opinion, Kurt Campbell and I argue America alone can’t match China’s scale. With "allied scale," it’s no contest. But if Trump keeps alienating US partners, we'll never get there—and the next century will be China's to lose.

I’m praying for Charlie Kirk and the Utah Valley University students in attendance at today’s event and am glad the shooter is in custody. This type of despicable act has no place on our college campuses or anywhere in America.

It's ghoulish to mock or justify the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Rising political violence is a horror of our time. Unchecked it will lead to catastrophes none of us want to imagine. Deeply hoping he pulls through. We are all people, whatever we believe. That has to come first.

Big Shout Out to Republican Senator Lankford, who just called out Stephen Miller's crazy rhetoric: "They have a very different view than I do. I'm a conservative Republican. I have Democratic friends...Just having that ideology, just believing differently than some other