Insights: Policy

Yesterday, the House passed on a 218-203 vote the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025, legislation that would permit E15 gasoline to be sold year-round. The biofuels industry is now focused on pushing the Senate to pass the bill. While the biofuels industry has benefited from temporary waivers for sales of E15, it is looking...

Housing Supply/Investment Restrictions

As we’ve noted, House leaders have been preparing to pass a modified version of the Senate’s ROAD to Housing Act, which seeks to increase housing supply. There is strong bipartisan concern in the House, as well as across industry and among housing advocates about the Senate bill’s restrictions on institutional investment in single-family rentals...

Gas Tax Holiday, Highway/Transit Funding

This morning, President Trump endorsed the idea of providing a holiday from the 18.4 cent-per-gallon federal gas tax. Doing so would require an act of Congress. A number of populist Republicans announced they would be introducing legislation, while key Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Thune (R-SD), Senate Finance Committee Chair...

Medicare Advantage (Auto-Enrollment)

CMS Deputy Administrator Brooks said CMS has no immediate plans to automatically enroll Medicare beneficiaries into Medicare Advantage (MA) plans or accountable care organizations (ACOs), but left open the possibility that default enrollment could be a longer-term Medicare policy direction.

Drug Pricing (Most-Favored-Nation)

The White House Council of Economic Advisers released a report providing new details as to the administration’s voluntary Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) drug-pricing deals with 17 major pharmaceutical manufacturers. To date, the White House has only revealed high-level details as to how the deals will be operationalized and their impact.

Tech / Media / Telecom

AI Model Regulation

The Trump administration, via the NIST’s Center for AI Standards & Innovation (CAISI), announced voluntary agreements with Google, Microsoft, and xAI to conduct cybersecurity/national security evaluations of their frontier AI models, expanding earlier arrangements with OpenAI and Anthropic struck in 2024 under the Biden...