In the @FT today, I explain how President Trump, the Treasury Department, and @SenJoniErnst are working to save tens of billions by strengthening the Do Not Pay system, which President Obama created in 2010. This reform should have bipartisan support. @SenatorDurbin @RonWyden @SenGaryPeters sponsored similar reforms last year.

Has any sports franchise or league ever bungled a generational opportunity like the @IndianaFever and the @WNBA have managed to do over the last two years? Revoking reporters’ credentials for doing their job is bush league.

Yes, @DanLips! Today’s the day to celebrate financial freedom for the next generation 📈

Happy #529Day! 🎓 529 accounts started as college savings plans. Now they cover K-12 tuition, apprenticeships, job training, and more. They could become America's engine for education choice and lifelong learning. @mctoth @FREOPP @NationalAffairs nationalaffairs.com/publicat…

This is great news. One opportunity: use Treasury's Do Not Pay tool to screen benefit payments. A 2021 NYC Comptroller Audit used the tool to uncover that the city paid $700k to 39 adoptive parents who were dead.

This is beautiful.

Today’s announcement from @CommerceGov and @POTUS to invest in quantum computing companies and new quantum foundries is an important step toward securing American leadership in quantum technology development and deployment. @PrinehaN and I outlined our vision of how domestic manufacturing and supply chain security are critical to America’s quantum future. The deals announced today put those ideas in action. Welcome to the quantum moment.

Congress transformed 529 accounts into lifelong learning accounts. Now states can make them work for every child, especially those whose families struggle to save. FREOPP's @DanLips on how ⤵️ freopp.org/whitepapers/state…

This tracks what our DC Civil Rights Advisory Committee investigation found in DC: DCPS was rationing private placements and special education services based on who could hire lawyers to issue due process complaints.

TLDR: State policymakers can help promote equal opportunity for children living below median income and wealth. Establishing policies or programs to contribute funds into 529 accounts is an excellent first step. Read the full report by @DanLips 👇 freopp.org/whitepapers/state…

K-12 ESA's should be designed to allow families to conserve $ and save funds for future use (including future tutoring, enrichment, college, job training costs etc) to prevent tuition inflation

I rang the bell! My middle child Betsy and sweet wife @AprilPonnuru were there to celebrate with me.

Ramesh's final chemotherapy treatment is tomorrow. In your charity, please pray for @RameshPonnuru this week--that his health will be completely restored. He is deeply loved, as our friends and family have demonstrated so well over these last eight months. ❤️🙏

"Full-spectrum" education choice has the potential to close wealth gaps, expand access to tutoring and enrichment, and give every American a real stake in their own human capital. @DanLips and @mctoth on what that looks like in practice 👉 nationalaffairs.com/publicat…

One of the most powerful education savings tools in America is almost entirely out of reach for families living below median income and wealth. @DanLips writes: State policymakers have the tools to close that gap so all American children can thrive. freopp.org/whitepapers/state…

Check out the full breakdown from @FREOPP by @DanLips: freopp.org/whitepapers/state…

Full commentary here: dailysignal.com/2026/04/14/f…

1/2 @DanLips is head of policy and a senior fellow at @JoinFAI, a senior fellow at @FREOPP, and a @FreeConTalk signatory. Lips has spent decades working in public policy, including stints with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He also helped birth the concept of ESAs. In a recent @NationalAffairs piece coauthored with Michael Toth, Lips presented an agenda for “full-spectrum school choice” that includes expanded child-savings accounts, job training programs, lifelong-learning accounts, and other reforms. Giving parents and students a wide range of options “creates new opportunities for teachers, school leaders, and entrepreneurs to provide high-quality instruction, learning models, and other services that have the potential to dramatically increase the return on taxpayers' investment in public schooling,” Lips and Toth wrote. “And as vehicles for administering public benefits, education accounts have the further potential to achieve broader public-policy goals, including promoting lifelong learning, encouraging job training, and even reducing wealth inequality and promoting retirement security. “In the future, these accounts may serve as the primary policy lever for promoting the development of human capital and intergenerational social mobility.” Link in the comments. #FreeCon

The school choice debate used to be about where kids go to school. Now it's about where, when, and how Americans learn at every stage of life. FREOPP's @DanLips and @UT_Civitas's @mctoth lay out the full policy architecture in a must-read piece. nationalaffairs.com/publicat…