More hangs on this difference than we realize. “I think a lot about how, fifty years from now, I’m going to explain to young people what happened, when we’re all huddled around a tire fire for warmth after the climate collapse,” Lucas Merrill Brown told me. Lucas worked with Yadira as part of the USDS team assigned to the MACRA rollout and has gone on to environmental policy roles in the Biden administration, advising on the implementation of the infrastructure bill and the IRA. “Most days,” Lucas says, “I’m convinced I’ll have to tell them that lot of people worked really hard to build
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