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A month-long tree-sit in Arizona's San Rafael Valley has stalled construction on one segment of Trump's $50 billion border wall, revealing where the federal enforcement machine chooses to push and where it doe…
The Trump administration has secured $170 billion for border enforcement, yet a handful of activists in a single cottonwood tree have halted construction for nearly a month. The scale mismatch is the story.
Coverage tends to frame border wall resistance as symbolic protest against an unstoppable federal program. That framing misses how selectively the state actually enforces at low-priority sites, and how ranchers, tribes, and environmentalists have built an unlikely coalition that raises the marginal cost of building.
Large infrastructure programs do not fail everywhere at once. They get slowed in the places the state decides are not worth escalating over, and the Lochiel encampment is a working demonstration of exactly that dynamic.
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Governor Matt Meyer signed the package Wednesday, closing the FERC tariff loophole that lets grid upgrade costs get spread across residential custome…
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