... the Administrative State is demanding Hands Off "their" Loan Programs Office. The reason we "needed" a LPO in the first place, is because we'd lawyered-off any private "industrial banks" as might underwrite nuclear plants like Palisades (MI) and Vogtle (GA), or lithium mines like Thacker Pass (NV). In fact the inability of the market to underwrite such projects is, exactly, a Concern of the Concerned Scientists against nuclear at all (as if it weren't artificial).
Nick Denton has mooted last weekend that the Trump Administration, after 81 days, has been Lettuced: as happened to PM Truss over in Blighty. After 81 days the bond-market forced Trump off his tariffs; and, further, he's allowed the hotel and agribusiness sectors not to look too hard at the Documents of their workforce. DOGE has scaled back its ambitions. Elon Musk's love for Indian labour is as famous as is Vivek's.
Next up: NASA, what with Mars Sample Return, the Wfirst / Grace-Roman telescope, and the Venus probe. Personally I'd keep that 'scope and add more in Hawaii; the MSR, yea, needs to go. But I'm concerned that we are setting ourselves up to include all of these big budget items, what with Isaacman being mooted to helm that Agency. And we're not even talking about the Artemis / Gateway silliness. It's only money!
The way the Constitution works, any Executive naturally weakens as the 2026 elections loom. The leeches are returning.
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