
Heart of a Mainer, Soul of a Kiwi. Transportation, energy, and technology policy. Executive Director @CoalitionReMo. Government Relations+ @securing_energy.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s #SAFESummit2026. Over two days, we tackled a wide spectrum of challenges—from energy and critical minerals to supply chains, infrastructure, and industrial capacity.
One theme was clear: the systems underpinning our energy security are being fundamentally redefined.
Avery Ash retweeted
Workforce as a supply chain in its own right.
SAFE's CEO @Averyaash and @Jpmorgan's Jay Horine explore the Security and Resiliency Initiative—a $1.5 trillion, decade-long effort to finance and strengthen industries vital to economic security—and the central role a highly skilled workforce plays in making that vision a reality.
#SAFESummit2026
Avery Ash retweeted
In October 2025, J.P. Morgan announced one of the most consequential private sector commitments to American industrial resilience in a generation: the Security and Resiliency Initiative, a $1.5 trillion, 10-year plan to facilitate, finance, and directly invest in industries critical to U.S. national economic security.
On Day 2 of the SAFE Summit, our CEO @averyaash is sitting down with Jay Horine to hear why J.P. Morgan made this commitment, how this fund builds on policy action, and what it will take for the broader commercial banking community to follow suit.
Full agenda: safesummit.org/safe-summit-2…
Avery Ash retweeted
The data center buildout has allowed Loudoun County to lower property tax rates by 38% since 2010, translating to average savings of about $3,400 per year for homeowners.
Avery Ash retweeted
“We’ve seen this strategy backfire in Europe and elsewhere—it would have potentially catastrophic impacts on our automotive industry, have ripple effects on our entire defense industrial base, and make every American less secure.
We urge the President to stay tough against China and protect American auto manufacturers and workers.” - @averyaash, SAFE’s CEO
Avery Ash retweeted
"For us, it always comes back to the overlap of our commercial and our defense needs. ... It’s about civil-military fusion, but in an authentically American way."
Q&A with @Securing_Energy's new CEO, @averyaash in @POLITICOPro this morning via @jamepdx
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Avery Ash retweeted
⛏️Failing to address the US’s processing chokepoint will cede further mineral dominance to China, leaving us reliant on an adversarial nation for our critical minerals.
🗓️Today, SAFE’s Abigail Hunter testifies at the House E&C hearing on critical mineral supply chains to urge calibrated and timely action from policymakers.
📽️Learn more and watch the testimony: energycommerce.house.gov/eve…
#CriticalMinerals #EnergySecurity #SupplyChains
Avery Ash retweeted
Today, 12 of my Republican colleagues and I issued a joint statement in response to the Ways and Means Committee’s portion of reconciliation concerning clean energy tax credits. We ask House Leadership to consider 3 thoughtful changes as we move forward.
Full statement here:
Avery Ash retweeted
Some Republicans are asking whether to wait until 2025 with a trifecta to do energy permitting reform. But not only is a materially different bill not possible in the 119th Congress due to the political process and landscape, it's dangerous to delay it.
- Hyperscalers are looking to site their largest, most important data centers overseas because they can't get the power and gas they need in the US
- Consumers are seeing rising retail prices because it's too hard and takes too long to build energy infrastructure
- RTOs and ISOs are all facing difficulty keeping reliability of the system given the growth in demand
- Energy companies of all types are cancelling projects because of difficulty of permits
The next Congress has many issues of higher priority to deal with. Even if/when it gets to it, the bill cannot go through reconciliation. It will need at least 7 Dem votes in the Senate. There is no chance a bill as imagined by certain conservative groups would get that. The issue would be stuck and the industry, and consumers, would be waiting years.
Avery Ash retweeted
Wild story. DC Police are asking a reporter to reveal sources on a story about how 911 is broken and mistakes may have led to an infant fatality. #FixDC911
DC POLICE LAUNCH LEAK INVESTIGATION: @DCPoliceDept Internal Affairs called @nbcwashington today. Agent wanted to know who told us about unanswered 911 calls from a NW DC family desperate to help a 5 month old child. We did not reveal sources.
Avery Ash retweeted
More than a dozen House Republicans wrote to Speaker Mike Johnson asking him NOT to axe clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) if the GOP maintains or expands its House majority next year.
thehill.com/policy/energy-en…
Avery Ash retweeted
Are you interested in safer streets around Petworth? There is a new group forming for neighbors who want to help with slower speeds, safer pedestrian options, and other improvements for all the different ways we all travel around Petworth.
bit.ly/petworthforsaferstree…
With China dominating the #connectedvehicle supply chain and considering how to sell CVs in the US, the Commerce Dept ANPRM is an important step to consider national security risks and action needed to blunt them. @CoalitionReMo comments go deeper tinyurl.com/5cxecrcs
Avery Ash retweeted
Lamborghini just changed their logo yesterday to be way more bland. It reminded me that color is dying. It's being removed from our logos, our cities, our lives.
Avery Ash retweeted
JB Straubel, Founder and CEO of @RedwoodMat, will join SC Gov. @henrymcmaster at #SAFESummit2024 for an insightful conversation on public policy and an advanced manufacturing renaissance. Register: SAFESummit.org
How can we expect to have a successful #SafeSystems and #VisionZero plan by @MurielBowser and @DDOTDC when we accept drivers flaunting foundational laws with impunity and removing the ability for accountability? DC has a major problem and it gets worse when the city won’t act
.@311DCgov please please please finally do something about this unregistered ghost vehicle. The owner keeps printing new fake plates for YEARS. Tow it! This is not a valid serial format for Texas temporary plates. Warder St NW at Newton Pl NW
Avery Ash retweeted
Europe's been a leader of connected, cooperative, and automated mobility technologies to enhance safety and access, reduce congestion, & promote sustainable #transportation systems.
Join our virtual panel on #CCAM deployment in Europe w/ @paveeurope.
pavecampaign.org/event/regis…
This amounts to a last-second save on a near own goal by the US on efforts to improve our transportation systems. Glad to see it, but this latest backlash should be a wakeup call re communications/collaboration efforts required for #AVs to be viewed as part of the solution #AB316
Governor Newsom Vetoes Bill Banning Self-Driving Trucks on California Roads timesofsandiego.com/tech/202…
California’s autonomous trucking bill #AB316 is a major step in the wrong direction if we want a cleaner, safer, more connected and efficient #transportation system for moving #freight. Governor Newsom should veto this bill. 🧵1/
With pressing transpo challenges and an economic and tech race with #China (a central part of @CoalitionReMo’s work), the US can’t afford more self-inflicted wounds, and #AB316 will undermine California’s and ultimately the nation’s global competitiveness for decades to come. 5/
Bottom line: #AB316 would impose an effective ban on heavy-duty #autonomoustrucks in perpetuity, preventing the momentous societal, safety and economic benefits these vehicles can provide for a cleaner, more secure, and resilient, thriving economy. #VetoAB316 6/6


























