- Stephen has spent decades in the middle of Washington’s biggest tax and budget battles
- This keynote will provide a candid look at how these decisions really get made — and who will win and lose as the policy backdrop evolves
The midterms will be about two weeks old when this panel sits down. Nobody will have had time to settle into a comfortable narrative yet, which is the best moment to ask what the results actually mean for tax policy, for the sectors that live on federal spending, and for the regulatory posture toward AI. The panelists come at it from four different directions and will not land in the same place.