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Good morning! I am in NYT Opinion today discussing the drama between the warring factions inside the White House and a better path for industrial strategy This is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. There is a lot of stuff happening all the time now. Trump has really taken the reigns of the presidency, and has tested all sorts of limits, including defying a 9-0 Supreme Court order. He has creatively wielded tariffs, toggling them on and off in ways that have turned the US economy into a giant guessing game, which is not very fun. I interviewed the brilliant Jessica Riedl of the Manhattan Institute on Tuesday, and she highlighted how the throughline to all of this is… Congress. Congress just isn’t doing that much. They voted to give up their own power and seem to be afraid of the President. They shrug their shoulders, and say “Boy, someone should handle this” as PhD students get deported and erratic tariffs wreck

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