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摘要: Politics we can agree on: Small wins show the positive impact of government

This week I’d like to shine a light on some of the under-the-radar happen

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Politics we can agree on: Small wins show the positive impact of government

This week I’d like to shine a light on some of the under-the-radar happenings in DC that we should all agree are positive steps forward.

9/8/2026, 8:30:00 AM

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The U.S. Capitol is seen from the Washington Monument in Washington, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

By Tom Snyder, WRAL TechWire contributor

I don’t know about you, but I’ve grown tired

of the news feeling like a never-ending partisan shouting match. There hasn’t

been a lot of coverage of good news that everyone can generally agree about.

get it. The second Trump administration has moved aggressively to reshape

agencies, eliminate programs, rewrite regulations and reconsider assumptions

that have governed Washington for decades. Supporters see long-overdue

disruption of an entrenched bureaucracy. Critics see the dismantling of

institutions and safeguards that took generations to build. That’s newsworthy.

But exhausting.

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But amid all of the noise, the government is

still governing. And some of it, in fact, is pretty good. Incremental

improvements to obscure federal rules rarely go viral, but are often far more

impactful than what headlines CNN or Fox News on a given evening. This week I’d

like to shine a light on some of the under the radar happenings in DC that we

should all agree are positive steps forward.

Keeping politics one step removed from science

A continuing resolution passed last week to

keep the federal government operating through December 11. It contains a

provision that will attract far less attention than the shutdown it prevented.

For the duration of the resolution, Congress has blocked the Office of

Management and Budget from implementing a proposed overhaul of federal grant

rules that would substantially increase political control over grantmaking.

The OMB proposal would require grea

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