President Biden and the four top Congressional leaders - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California), Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies(D-New York), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) – are scheduled to be meeting today at the time of this report to negotiate on a debt ceiling and potential budget bill; the last meeting was with McCarthy and President Biden on 1 February. Today’s meeting of the principals was preceded by senior staff level meetings last Friday. At the time, the Treasury Department estimated the federal government would no longer be able to maintain extraordinary measures to avoid borrowing and cover debt payments by 5 June; the Congressional...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.