Despite some vocal opposition from Congress to the president’s ordered strikes on Iran, there is little reason to expect Congress will act in checking the president’s authority in this case says Cornell University professor David Bateman.

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Cathy Creighton, director of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab, says even though TSA and ICE employees both fall under the Department of Homeland Security, they are trained for very different jobs.

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Cathy Creighton, director of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab and former field attorney for the NLRB, says TSA workers have been put through the wringer in 2025-2026.

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According to new reports, the Trump administration is reviewing proposals to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the world’s leading climate and weather laboratories. The National Science Foundation had asked for feedback about how to “restructure” the lab but not said when a decision would be made.

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Eswar Prasad, a senior professor of international trade policy at Cornell University, says the ruling is still unlikely to slow the administration’s broader push to deploy tariffs across economic and geopolitical fronts.

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Christopher Anderson is a professor of operations, technology and information management,  and an expert in the hospitality and airline industries. He says domestically, the most immediate issue is airport processing.

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John Tobin-de la Puente is a professor of practice at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business, and a former managing director and global head of sustainability at Credit Suisse. He says he doesn’t expect companies to make long-term plans based on the Trump administration’s actions.

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A report from the Energy Information Administration forecasts that developers will add a record 86 gigawatts of new utility-scale electric generating capacity to the U.S. grid in 2026, with 93% coming from renewables such as solar power, battery storage and wind.

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Cathy Creighton, director of Cornell University's Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab and former field attorney for the NLRB, says the new changes allow for unprecedented political control over career civil servants.

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President Trump announced during his State of the Union speech new agreements with the tech industry to ensure they cover more of the costs of powering new artificial intelligence data centers. It could signal his administration’s willingness to continue development despite the risk of further taxing the electric grid and spiking electricity prices. 

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