Sorry I'm late to posting this week; I'd actually planned to take the four-day week into the three-day holiday weekend off, but "one big beautiful" legislative disaster has spawned this internal need to stay at it, this week.

As did Thom Tillis' floor speech over the weekend, followed by his announcement he'd not seek re-election in 2026. Suddenly, Democrats have an opportunity in North Carolina to pick up a Senate seat in an otherwise bleak Senate cycle for them.

As Trump's coveted "one big beautiful bill" makes its way through Congress, we're already seeing even GOP-led states like Georgia brace for and re-allocate funds to stunt its effects. Here, they're racing to "amp up Medicaid hospital funding by $2 billion" in anticipation of this bill's passage.