If climate change could be solved with consultants, memos, and government job postings, Washington would already be carbon negative.

Tax, Spend, Repeat: Washington’s Climate Scam in Full Swing

Democrats promised the Climate Commitment Act would clean the air, protect the planet, and save kids from asthma. What did we get instead? A bloated $174 million spending spree that mostly grows the government and pads bureaucrats’ salaries.

Todd Myers of the Washington Policy Center did the math, and it’s ugly:

• Over 70% of the CCA money in the 2025–27 operating budget doesn’t touch the environment—it funds government expansion and endless planning exercises.
• Just $15.8 million (a pathetic 9%) goes to actual environmental projects.
• A program to actually reduce childhood asthma? It got less than 0.2%—while a $382,000 job was created just to coordinate climate buzzwords across agencies.
• The second biggest expense? $22.5 million for “local government planning.” Translation: lots of Zoom calls, no cleaner air.

Washington has hauled in nearly $4 billion in CO2 taxes since 2023, and the only thing shrinking is public trust. This isn’t climate action—it’s climate theater, starring Olympia’s favorite actors: unelected bureaucrats and virtue-signaling lawmakers.

With another budget shortfall looming, maybe it’s time the governor hit pause on the feel-good fluff and demanded real results.

Read the full breakdown from Todd Myers at the Washington Policy Center. He names names and follows the (green) money.

Welcome to Bob Ferguson’s Washington: Where Success Is Penalized and Failure Is Funded

Gov. Bob Ferguson just signed the largest tax hike in state history, including a fresh 6-cent-per-gallon gas tax—because clearly, the third-highest gas prices in the nation just weren’t gouging us enough.

Then he doubled down with a shiny new rent control law that ignores basic economics. When you cap profits, builders walk away. So while Democrats promise “affordable housing,” they’re actually making the shortage worse. Hope you enjoy your 400 sq ft $3,000 studio.

But don’t worry—if you’ve managed to succeed despite all this, the state will hit your family with a 35% estate tax, the highest in the nation. That’s after it raised the capital gains tax to 9.9%, driving job creators and investors out of state faster than a Seahawks fan at a 49ers tailgate.

As Donald P. Nielsen, Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute, points out, this is all happening while Washington already has the fourth-highest cost of living, skyrocketing crime, rampant homelessness, and an education system that’s collapsing under its own bloated budget. We spend like Norway but educate like it’s 1994.

Lawmakers say they’re helping the poor and middle class—but their policies are actually crushing them. Either they skipped Econ 101… or just don’t care.

Washington used to be a model for opportunity. Under Democrat leadership, it’s become a cautionary tale. Read more at the Discovery Institute.

Trump Targets Tent Cities: Finally, a Plan That Prioritizes Treatment Over Tents

President Donald Trump just signed an executive order that takes a sledgehammer to the failed “housing first” approach embraced by progressive cities like Seattle and San Francisco. The new directive, “Ending Vagrancy and Restoring Order,” shifts federal dollars away from no-strings-attached handouts and toward long-term treatment, rehabilitation, and enforcement.

Instead of rewarding open-air drug markets with subsidized apartments, the order empowers states and cities to enforce homeless camp bans, crack down on squatting and public drug use, and require sobriety and treatment as a condition for help. In other words, it treats homelessness as the addiction and mental health crisis it actually is—not just a housing glitch.

It also unlocks grants for cities that are actually willing to clean up their streets and restore public order—not just virtue-signal while sidewalks disappear under tents and trash. It even includes tools to help states track sex offenders hiding in encampments, something progressive leaders seem bizarrely allergic to.

While Washington Democrats keep throwing taxpayer money at programs that enable self-destruction, President Trump is making the radical move of… actually trying to fix the problem. Read more at Fox 13.

Democrats: Soft on Crime, Tough on Broken Windows (Eventually… Maybe… Kinda?)

It’s been 80 days since far-left activists trashed a building at the University of Washington—causing over $1 million in damage—and not one person has been charged. Thirty-four people were arrested after livestreaming their rampage, but apparently “being in the building while it was being destroyed” isn’t enough evidence for Democrat prosecutors. Because of course it’s not.

UW’s Police Chief and King County prosecutors are now doing “walkthroughs” and reviewing footage (somehow still not from inside the building?) while taxpayers foot the bill and vandals enjoy their summer break. Windows are still busted and the building remains closed—another shining example of “restorative justice” in action.

And UW isn’t alone. Columbia University is forking over $200 million to the Trump administration over its failure to protect Jewish students and staff, while Western Washington University is nervously cooperating with a DOJ antisemitism probe. But don’t worry—WWU assures us its systems are “inclusive” and “respectful,” despite being under federal investigation.

Democrat-run institutions have perfected the art of delayed accountability, where action only follows public embarrassment, and even then it’s just plywood, PR statements, and promises to “review” the situation. Maybe if these were MAGA students trashing a building, charges would’ve been filed in 80 minutes. Read more at KOMO News.

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