I figured that the desire to push non-delegation and major-questions would combine with financial self-interest here. Or rather, the doctrines they want to push anyway are grate ways to rationalize self-interest.

Probably related to the aircraft carrier the US has deployed to the Caribbean.

Every time he makes an assertion I think "And how the hell would you know that?"

I love how we're all just skipping the part where his tariff powers depend on there being an emergency.

crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/....

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One of my favorite "project management" scenes in cinema is when Tommy Hagen, after hearing from Woltz that there's no way the kid gets in the picture, says he has to fly to NY right away because The Don insists on hearing bad news right away.

Situational awareness can be life or death.

Sad / pissed. Hoping it ends up better for you despite their mission to hurt your family.

Tragicomedy.

If the point is to find fraud and accountability, yes.

If the point is to perform for the faithful, then no.

I know which I'm betting is the actual point.

6/6 The one piece of solace I can give them is that once your data is clean and the process that creates is clean - you will find efficiencies that will make lots of what you do with the data take much less effort.

Some large swath of government data needs cleaning? Knock me over with a feather.

5/6 So now we should look at revising your processes so they produce only clean data (if we can).