Housing Policy Standoff: President Trump dismissed the bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act/21st Century Housing Act package as “a big yawn,” even as he signaled he may not support parts of the compromise and acknowledged Senate passage is unlikely—leaving the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act’s fate uncertain. Nuclear Bottleneck: A year after Trump’s nuclear push, the U.S. still lacks a nationwide spent-fuel disposal plan, with DOE working on nuclear lifecycle “campuses” as AI-driven power demand raises pressure to scale nuclear. Defense Industrial Output: NATO leaders head to Ankara facing a familiar problem: turning rising defense budgets into enough missiles and tanks fast enough, with Europe urged to produce more and reduce reliance on the U.S. Manufacturing & Supply Chain Moves: Kyowa Kirin’s Sanford facility was selected for the FDA PreCheck Pilot Program to speed biologics manufacturing timelines; Microbot Medical is expanding production via a Sanmina manufacturing agreement; Trinity Biotech’s Trinovium secured Open Compute Project membership for AI data-center liquid cooling. Energy Storage Investment: Frontier Power USA added a $50M Hudson Bay equity commitment as part of a larger push to scale long-duration storage projects. Right-to-Repair Push: A Newsweek map shows only Massachusetts and Maine have broad right-to-repair protections, while Trump’s “freedom to fix” memo targets federal emissions rules.