The problem with policy announcements from the current Whitehouse is that it requires us to believe that they are making policy and that it'll be enacted lawfully.

I'm british, so this should be unvarnished good news. but I just can't imagine this will survive any time past the first bad fox news headline.

Trump doesn't do "policy". He is mostly trolling, and sometimes rambling. For anyone that doesn't understand or agree with them, they simply don't like you and it would be great if you weren't around.

What Trump is doing was essentially the position of Thomas Dewey, had he been elected President in 1944, but Roosevelt concealed his health problems. Dewey was very specific that Democrat New Deal agencies and programs would be eliminated.

It is the end of cooperative politics and compromise. Given the cognitive impairment, it is likely the beginning of what economists will be calling an "economic adjustment" (administration preferred language) due to AI and wasteful social programs. When cities like Denver want to take out a $1 billion loan to manage their budget, it doesn't bode well. Denver has few economic prospects, and has about $1 billion in existing debt. Los Angeles recently did the same thing.

It may not be binding, without a treaty ratified by Congress, like the Iran nuclear deal under Obama, but which parts are illegal?

If only the non-binding is the issue, I believe the supreme court has in the past few decades ruled treaties ratified by congress aren't binding either despite what the constitution says and that congress can undo them by not implementing them or something.

Not everything in the White House is going through Stephen Miller.

This announcement itself has Vance, Sankar, and Kupor's fingerprints all over it.

For tech policy this admin is a basically A16Z and Founders Fund people, but the last admin leaned Sequoia Capital.

This is why you see a lot of crypto (A16Z) this admin and GreenTech (Sequoia) the last admin.

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