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Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by rbanffy on Friday January 31, 2025 @11:34AM (#42889120)
> Congress doesn’t have the ability to pass national rent control, for example

Rent control should be easy to fit within "general welfare".

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Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by kristjansson on Friday January 31, 2025 @01:45PM (#42890368)
Congress not only _could_ control rents nationally, congress _has_ controlled rents nationally [1] and those controls survived the review of the court.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Price_Control_Act_of...

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