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Legislative procedure peeps: what would happen if a member of congress just started objecting to unanimous consent in the House? Obv some things would just be a 5 or 15 minute vote, but would other motions have to get kicked to a committee or placed on a calendar?

What OMB is doing violates the constitution itself. The ICA fills in the details of how congress and the executive interact over the spending power, but finding the ICA unconstitutional and ratifying OMB’s action here would mean overthrowing the most fundamental constitutional design.

Terrifying how muted the response has been from the press to the admin just straight up breaking the law. This and the Inspectors General firings are basically Jan. 6 levels of unconstitutional and they're framing it like a policy debate??

Please wait to tell big tech that AI and Crypto are just massive bubbles until AFTER they've fully bankrolled geothermal and SMRs. 🔌💡

🔌💡After a few days of digging into the legislation and policy, I can confidently say it is impossible to tell what will actually happen to NEVI (EV charging station grant program from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law/IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act credits (inc. $7,500 EV credit). A 🧵:

i would happily pay a few dollars a month to keep this place viable.

Energy 🔌💡 and environmental bsky, I have a question: if individual states/municipalities want to reduce their emissions enough for the entire US to meet it's climate goals, what would be the highest impact policies? Assuming places like TX also have reductions due to cheap renewables, EVs, etc