Hidden, as many things are hidden in the small print (and it’s all small print) of the so-called “ One Big Beautiful Act (OBBA)” — signed by President Trump on July 4 — is a threat to shipbuilding at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. (By the way, Obba is also the name of a kind of white rot crust fungus. Look it up!).

This Philadelphia Inquirer headline caught my eye: “Philadelphia needs welders. A Trump administration proposal would eliminate the agency helping to train them.”

Trump has called for a shipbuilding boom to increase the U. S. naval fleet. Philadelphia’s Navy Yard is ready to expand production and hire hundreds of local welders. And then “Wham!”

Trump has already used vindictiveness and hostage-taking against higher education. Now he is employing pure stupidity.

OBBA suggests

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