People's houses or towns burning down or washing away is bad for prosperity, and so are the 8 million or so annual deaths from fossil-fuel particulates. Hurricane Helene was extremely bad for western North Carolina prosperity. Island nations going underwater, ditto.

Now Trump is using the same word in D.C. To them, “liberation” means clearing streets with troops, rounding up the vulnerable, and calling it freedom. In the United States, we don’t “liberate” our people from the government they themselves elected.

This isn’t just another bill. It’s the Project 2025 playbook written into law. This bill abuses budget reconciliation rules to jam through non-budget items, like education authority rollbacks, environmental deregulation, and civil service purges. Read the fine print. Read the bill!