It also swipes or moved around ARPA-I, NEVI FY26 Rescissions, Reconnecting Communities Pilot, Fed state partnership for intercity rail grants, Reduction of truck emissions at port facilities… what else?

I imagine that there’s a chicken and egg component to project selection and what gets built, but that also helps determine how gas is taxed in the first place.

I would be very interested in how the built environment factors in an analysis like this. Gas is expensive (relative) in sprawling California, but they drive much more compared to place in the US with options and cheaper gas (thinking of the DC region).

Cherry blossom festival plus an “interspecies celebration” (?) at the Kennedy center lol

Gen Z has the disadvantage of existing in the same Wild West of internet disinfo but without as much interactions with the “real world” since the internet is so pervasive now, thanks to phones, the decline of physical hobbies and third spaces, etc. Gen Z is just less attached to baseline reality.

Did you factor the difference between place of performance data and the recipient location in USASpending metadata?

Org HQs receiving funds (in my case state DOTs) are often located in cities more politically left leaning and bias funding toward Harris counties when the work is performed elsewhere

vox dei

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Here's another:

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...but don't stop there. Call your reps on the phone. Let your local media know exactly what could be at stake for your area. Make noise about this before it's too late.

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