Banking reform (administration's policy win) threatened by a vindictive land‑use rider attached in conference — staff must choose between vetoing the whole bill (principle) or finding an executive/legal workaround to save the policy while protecting Bi...
Banking reform (administration's policy win) threatened by a vindictive land‑use rider attached in conference — staff must choose between vetoing the whole bill (principle) or finding an executive/legal workaround to save the policy while protecting Big Sky.
Events in This Arc
In the communications office the team learns the Banking Bill's passage is threatened when Josh bursts in: Representatives Broderick and Eaton have secretly attached a punitive land‑use rider. Toby begins …
Josh bursts into Sam's office with a sudden legal workaround: invoke the Antiquities Act to allow the President to designate Big Sky as protected federal land. The idea immediately reframes …
After a light, humanizing exchange about Glacier Park and singing to grizzly bears, Josh delivers a pragmatic, late-night solution: use the Antiquities Act to declare Big Sky a national park. …