ng for years, that if you wanted to and you went hard at it, you could have all the energy needed from solar? And it's starting to look like he was right about that. Looks like he got the math right.

If you were doubting Elon Musk on math and engineering, well he made a bad bet. I have to admit I was skeptical because it looked more like he was just promoting his own products, but I think he's also accurate that you could get all of your electricity from solar if you went wild, you know, really went at it hard like China.

The appeals court is going to let Trump keep control of the California National Guard. Now if you haven't been following this, how many times have you heard that an appeals court altered an order from a lower court about something about Trump? How many times have we seen that story in just this calendar year? Maybe 25 times about different stories. I don't know how many times, but it feels like a lot.

But the latest one is, let's see, Trump took control of the National Guard in California when those anti-ICE protests were happening. And then California appealed and said, "You can't do that. You don't have the right to do that because there are only certain circumstances in which the commander-in-chief can take control and those certain circumstances have not been met." And the lower court agreed and so for a while Gavin Newsom had control back of the National Guard. But now the appeals court has decided that the commander-in-chief should have flexibility and you don't want to handicap them and you don't want to put the state in charge of protecting the whole country. So the appeals court says that Trump can keep control of the National Guard in California.

But does it matter? Are we still having protests, anti-ICE protests in LA, or did they all stop? Because I didn't see anything in the news today about any protests. So I think the appeals court has ruled on something that has no importance and no bearing on anything because it's already old news.

Anyway, speaking of complicated things, Russ Vought, the budget guy for the administration, according to Politico he's got this clever idea for cutting costs in the government that not everybody thinks is legal. And he calls it a pocket rescission. So as you know, the budget process in the government is this weird convoluted Byzantine process that nobody understands. Sometimes it's a budget, sometimes it's a spending bill, and sometimes it's a rescission, and we don't even know what any of that means.

But there's an idea that Trump could issue a formal request to claw back funding. Now this is in Politico. And so if Trump said, I've got a formal request to end funding for some specific things, similar to what he d