The proposed sell-off of federal lands in the Senate budget bill includes a LOT of Joshua tree habitat—the trees grow in some of the largest areas of undeveloped land in the lower 48 states
The place where eastern and western Joshua trees hybridize, north of Creech AFB, is included
#JoshuaTree #USpolitics
Senate picks fight with House GOP on the "big, beautiful bill" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/17/senate-trump-budget-bill-medicaid-taxes-salt
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p2#a250617p2
Dependent Randomized Rounding for Budget Constrained Experimental Design
Khurram Yamin, Edward Kennedy, Bryan Wilder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12677 https…
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At a topline glance, Trump's Big Budget Bill is an outrage:
large tax cuts for the rich and millions kicked off health insurance,
almost a parody of what an apparently fragile coalition of contemporary conservatives might abide
(if also a bill that raised the eyebrows of a few debt scolds, including Musk).
But because it is also a one-stop legislative omnibus,
rushed so quickly through the House that Republican representatives are now protesting they didn…
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