The Brookings Institution

One, they don't think we can handle it.

I mean, there was a study done for Brookings Institute back in 1960 that went to the government that basically said, hey, look, if an advanced civilization makes contact, it's us.

It's the less advanced civilization that crumbled.

They said all of our social institutions could crumble.

John Xin is a former China expert with the CIA and former director for China with the US National Security Council.

He's now a fellow at the John L. Thornton China Centre at the Brookings Institution and joins me now.

Hi, John.

How consequential is this gathering?

I'll give them brief ones.

Suzanne Maloney is Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where her research focuses on Iran and Persian Gulf energy.

Prior to being named President and Director, she served as the Deputy Director of Foreign Policy for five years.

Brookings Maloney also serves on the External Research Council for the National Intelligence Council.

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one year from the Brookings Institution to go and do my dissertation, which I did.

And so I spent a year in those days driving around and on GPS and getting lost doing interviews, interviewing people in three cities and in three issue areas.

I decided that was a good way to look at it.

So raising revenue.

And the recommendation I have is the big part of it, the big core of it comes from Brookings Institute with just a few modifications.

And Brookings is one of the many think tanks who is, everybody's been staring at this problem, seeing this problem come Over, you know, for basically more than a decade.

And Brookings has done the math to figure out what does it take to actually fix Social Security.

L. Gonzalez, listed the race as a toss-up.

Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, poised to take the House Intelligence Committee gavel if Democrats win the House, said, Even in rural communities where power is cheap, there's a backlash," Himes added during an event at the Brookings Institute.

That has created a political problem for Trump, who has focused much of his midterm campaign travel on rural locations.

And did you know that cheaper manufactured homes could be having a moment?

Cuts spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency led to $469 million in reductions to grants and contracts for tribal communities.

The findings come in a new report by Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan research and policy organization.

About 5.7 million of those cuts took place in Minnesota.

Indigenous news outlet ICT reports there have been several instances where these doge cuts were found by courts to be illegal.

But when we look at state and federal funding, we know there's – At one point there was about, I think it was in 2020, there was a study that there were about 400 federal programs that local rural governments would be eligible for.

And there's this famous spaghetti map that Tony Pippa did from Brookings Institution that shows just how kind of difficult and convoluted it is maybe for an organization or a small municipality to go after those because they live in different areas.

different agencies, they have different applications, et cetera.

So one of the things that our office is really doing is trying to figure out where we can streamline those processes and more importantly, help communities be prepared on the front end.