Today on TAP: Trump has threatened to revoke Musk’s SpaceX government contracts. It would be better if he followed Bannon’s advice and nationalized SpaceX.
Defense Production Act
Posted inEconomic Policy
White House to Force Companies to Share Artificial-Intelligence Data
It’s part of the administration’s new framework for regulating AI.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Biden’s Unused Clean Energy Authority
A new report identifies several powerful options using the Defense Production Act to support the energy transition.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Biden Must Wield the Power of the Defense Production Act to Rein In the Tripledemic
America is in for a rough winter, but the government can help.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Supreme Court Wounded, but Didn’t Kill, Biden Climate Powers
The administration still has plenty of tools to limit climate pollution that the ruling in West Virginia v. EPA did not touch.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The White House Did Not Push to Fund a Key Energy Cost-Saving Tool
Missouri Rep. Cori Bush fought to secure $100 million to carry out Biden’s new plan to speed domestic production of clean energy.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden’s New Favorite Industrial-Policy Tool Isn’t Funded
The DPA has become the president’s pet executive authority, and could kick-start American energy manufacturing. But funding is scant and largely controlled by the Pentagon.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Supply Chain Fixes, Energy Transition Take Major Steps Forward
Nobody will tell you, but Congress came closer to re-regulating an economic sector while the president began the wartime mobilization of clean energy.
Posted inCoronavirus
Fire Jeff Zients
Biden’s COVID czar has gone from ‘Mr. Fix-It’ to grim reaper, steering the administration’s pandemic response to catastrophic lows.
Posted inFirst 100
Biden Could Force Drugmakers to Produce Approved Vaccines
Also, Gary Gensler can’t wait to police this stock market.
