Roll back the dark.
Build America in the light.

Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir, is falling toward its minimum power pool elevation of ~3,490 feet, below which Glen Canyon Dam cannot generate hydropower. As of mid-July 2026 the reservoir sits at ~3,524 feet. The decline is driven by a structural deficit in the 1922 Colorado River Compact, climate change, and the administration's refusal to impose mandatory cuts—per the Bureau of Reclamation and the Project 2025 water policy library—not by natural drought alone.

The Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. United States, while primarily about presidential immunity, contains reasoning—echoed in concurrences—that opens the door to future challenges of 'for cause' removal protections for FTC, SEC, and FCC officials. This signals a potential end to the Humphrey's Executor framework, but does not overturn it directly. For now, the shift is doctrinal, not operational, making litigation almost certain.

Rep. Paul Gosar is leveraging a monkey-bite incident involving Ebola and other lab safety failures to call for permanent closure of NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories, which employs about 450 people. The effort threatens a critical BSL-4 research facility, though the factual record needs correction.

The administration's war on fraud is stripping coverage from legitimate beneficiaries rather than expanding oversight; CBO previously estimated 1.3 million dually eligible people would lose Medicaid under blocked eligibility rules, and the FY2027 budget actually yields a $2.82 billion increase to HCFAC and Medicaid Integrity Programs, per the HFMA highlights—not a cut. The piece should avoid conflating program integrity funding with the eligibility rules that drive coverage loss.