Colin Higgins

For too long, insiders and special interests have put themselves first instead of Iowans. It’s time for change. Today, I’m launching the first plank of my Truer Better Agenda, "Accountability for All," to help fix our broken system and get government back to working for the people.

Ok this is extremely funny

It's her day 💗

@mnolangray This meme is so good

Mamdani is modeling a new style of next-gen leadership -- one we're going to see more and more of as millennials & gen Z take on positions of power in the next 5+ years. nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opi…

Absolutely insane to me that only 3 Democratic candidates and no committees are paying for Claude. That's deeply concerning.

I know it's boring and repetitive to talk about how grossly evil Trump is, but the fact remains: Trump is grossly evil, in a way that's pretty much unprecedented in this country.

Thanks to the new @esoltas & Gruber paper, we now have a calibrated econ model built on LA data that can be localized to NYC conditions @NYCMayor's plans to cut 2.5 years off permitting timelines in NYC would be equivalent to a ~20% percent drop in construction costs 🤯

Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.

Found the other other Wes Moore

We are proud to announce EIG’s Housing Advisory Council, a group of leading experts and practitioners who will help shape our growing body of work on housing supply and affordability. eig.org/policy/housing/

The time has come to raise the housing investment level in this country, just as we did in the 1960s and 1980s. We have a new report out this morning laying out just how high housing production numbers need to go—and for how many years—to dig us out of the shortage.

@PEWilliams_ Alt history: the TVA is mired in consultative process until 1945, after which 6 smaller dams are built at the tributaries by 1955 and a fraction of the low carbon, affordable, energy is created. But that one family gets to stay on their land.

It pains me to think of how much the anti-abundists would loathe the second coming of FDR. You’re telling me we’re going to flood the Tennessee valley and slap a grid down across the mid-south with nary an environmental review?

You can just do things (genetically sequence your dog’s tumors and design a bespoke mRNA cancer vaccine to save her life)

Oh give me a break. Schatz is trying to actually pass a bill that would lower housing costs. Do we care about actually helping people or not?

Amazing. Warren is deliberating trying to choke off investment in the construction of *new* single-family rental properties. This is profoundly regressive. Why is it OK for large investors to build and rent out apartments but not single-family homes? Many working-class Americans don't have high enough incomes or credit scores to buy a home. If we cut off investment in rental houses, then these families won't be able to live in large swathes of America: Roughly 70 percent of all residential land is zoned for single-family residences. The only way for working-class people to live in many affluent suburbs -- and access their high-performing schools -- is to rent a house. For this reason, corporate investment in single-family homes reduces socioeconomic segregation. Warren's policy effectively helps rich people keep working-class renters out of their towns -- while reducing the overall supply of housing and nudging up rents. It prioritizes populist symbolism over progressive outcomes.

Take 6 minutes and listen to @brianschatz break down exactly what's wrong with a specific provision in the ROAD to Housing bill. Rare to see a US senator engage in the nitty-gritty policy details like this, but it really matters for actually making progress on the housing crisis.

The moral panic over institutional investors owning single-family homes is peak slopulism. Banning institutional investors from owning homes will make the housing crisis worse, not better. But blaming Wall Street for our problems polls well, so politicians dish out the slop.