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He hasn’t signed many bills into law because the agenda of the first 100 days has not been a legislative agenda at all…the administration, before it took office, planned a whirlwind of..."

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Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Effective Public Management (CEPM), Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance StudiesTom Wheeler published an op-ed titled “Former FCC chairs: In the name of the First Amendment, Trump’s FCC attacks its principles,” in which he provides historical context on the FCC’s...
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Founding Director - Center for Effective Public Management (CEPM), Senior Fellow - Governance Studies @EKamarckThe challenge with…changing voting laws is we’ve had very close elections in the last three cycles, and so if you reduce the potential voters by 1 or 2% that could change the outcome of..."
If you looked on average at how professors at the Ivy League voted, there would be a majority [Democratic] … and so there’s this perception on the right that these colleges don’t have..."
The new registration requirements may make it more difficult for rural voters to cast their ballots. People there may not have all the documents that are required or have easy access to..."

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Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation (CTI), Center for Effective Public Management (CEPM), Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies @Jon Valant spoke about how COVID-19 triggered a school choice renaissance with The 74 Million.

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Director - Brown Center on Education Policy, Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Herman and George R. Brown Chair in Education Studies @JonValantPeople don’t trust government. The lack of trust in government, plus the disinformation in this echo chamber of information, leads to vaccine hesitancy.
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Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Senior Fellow - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy CenterChinasa T. Okolo spoke to Semafor about the first-ever global AI summit on Africa, held in Rwanda last week with cabinet officials from 20 African countries.
Tom Wheeler spoke to Bloomberg Technology about how the Trump administration’s approach to tariffs could shake up the relationship between the U.S. and Europe.
Absent action by Congress, today or going forward, the writing of these bills does not—to me—say that there’s a legal way for an administration to just pick up one office and put it in..."
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