Ten places where it could and should be cut.
[Friday-morning update]
The Trump administration needs to clean up the mess from Carter and Obama.
[Update a while later]
More budget-cutting ideas from Veronique de Rugy.
[Update a while later]
Waste, fraud, and abuse are not the problem; bureaucratic power is.
…explains why Trump won.
Climate change isn’t one of them.
Highlights from an interview with The Economist:
An instructive podcast, published six days ago, with Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for the secretary of defence position. A few takeaways: https://t.co/fPkLGjQAjV
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) November 13, 2024
I think his book was a key reason for the pick. He’ll be an antidote to all of the woke nonsense that rose during the Obama administration.
How Trump crushed it.
Good riddance.
Huge decision holding that CEQ never had authority to issue the National Environmental Policy Act regulations that have been used for nearly half a century https://t.co/8Jn5TF4kT5 pic.twitter.com/KRn0ZDIbIS
— James Coleman (@EnergyLawProf) November 12, 2024
If SCOTUS upholds this, it can only be fixed with legislation. I expect SpaceX (and other people who want to build things) to go pedal to the metal now.
Satan Devastated After Kamala Loses Election pic.twitter.com/82INrNuWEy
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 12, 2024
The launch industry is seeing the light (and in China as well). The biggest expendable we should expend is SLS.
A letter to Elon Musk.
I would love to see Milley recalled and court martialed, and stripped of all that nonsense chest candy.
More (a lot more) on Trump’s planned opening moves. It’s a good start. Worth noting, though, that he’s not actually going to be signing any laws on Day One.
[Update a while later]
They’re trying to get me to vote for him again (assuming I had the first time): Dismantling the FBI.