Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/
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Medicaid; school / lunch programs; Section 8 ; Title I education grants; TANF; state grants for child care; Head Start; SNAP and WICK
SNAP and school meals use same criteria, I believe. Still goes to individuals
https://bsky.app/profile/rimaregas.com/post/3lfxxe74e6s2j
2024: US voters sneer at the Brits' paucity of ambition.
Damage will be done.
He is illegally firing government officials without repute. Congress isn’t going to nor has ever checked his authority in any significant way. There are zero consequences for his criminal actions.
Thinking Congress will save us is naïve.
Would an ongoing recipient of one of those grants have a due process claim? If they've already 'won' the grant, isn't their property being taken — and new requirements being retroactively imposed — without due process?
By Friday this won't even be in the news, it's on to the next horror
And schools, hospitals, research, housing ....
The only recourse for a President violating the law is impeachment. Which requires 2/3 of the Senate. A majority of the Senate is MAGA.
this is the result of decades of control of information and outright propaganda.
if you actually talk to a trump voter who is cogent enough to have a conversation they don't agree with most republican stances. but republicans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-threatens-disciplinary-action-usaid-staff
So, good luck with that.
Well done, garbage country.
2/3 of the people either voted against this or not for it (didn't vote). And even the ones who voted "for" it didn't want this.
Either help fight back or shut up
I hardly lifted a finger in the recent election.
Then again, as a Canadian, living in Canada, I felt this was somewhat appropriate.
Just assume I take no responsibility or that I am doing nothing so it's easier to attack me.
It's the weakness of men that will lose this country.
#WeFightWeWin If we don't fight, we are lost.
Man what’s it going to take to get off our asses ..
More money in their corrupt government meme coins. @davetroy.com
And when he tries to take the money go after him!
He doesn't control the bank accounts. Stop acting like everyone is powerless but him
I’m not optimistic that agencies will decide that they can ignore an Executive Order based on their own reading of its legality. Or that any of these EO’s will be thrown out in court.
Thank you!
When social unrest ensues, he'll use our Armed Services to detain and jail citizens. He said he would go after us "vermin," and "Enemies From Within."
Believe what this vindictive narcissist said. It's his M.O.
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/14/its-magas-problem-now/
They told us what they were going to do and we wasted the last chance we had to stop it.
https://www.change.org/shadowcabinet
(see https://snyder.substack.com/p/shadow-cabinet)
#peoplescabinet
He'd make sure all pet food and animal feed was actually tested! Taste tested lol 😆
Meanwhile, everyone on the left seems to be installing window blinds in a house that's on fire...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gtUWkGcBTP8&t=54s&pp=ygUYaGFtbGluZSBtaWR3YXkgY29hbGl0aW9u
Activism is being obstructed as the essential resources of existence are made harder for all to access.
Read “A Terrible Thing to Waste” by Harriet Washington. Even a week of extreme stress and malnutrition can affect a child’s health for life.
Just more of the same, only it'll affect white people now.
If the President doesn't like any federal law, he needs congress to repeal it, otherwise he has a DUTY to take care that laws are executed.
him!
Why are you sitting back and letting this happen?!
As in...Allowing?
As in...Giving permission?
Let's hear *Your* solution. Hmm?
SMH
If he acts like a dictator…
aka
If it quacks like a 🦆…
Is anyone surprised?
The Dems should have immediately begun impeachment procedures 100 EOs ago. I know it won't mean any real change, but at least it would show us that they've not fully abandoned us.
And there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.
No Firefighters are coming to our rescue.
Fascism takes hold
If this is day 7, what will happen in 6 months? In three years? There will be nothing left but prisons
I think people are gonna demand the power back real quick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yF5HM0cOko
They are the American Marcos family.
What can be uncovered/leaked and publicized about them?
What can be megaphoned into their home districts and not just on the national level where only certain channels report it?
Really Trump??? You are the disaster! 🤬🤬🤬
Jesus Christ people learn how things work.
Things are bad but not as bad as you seem to think. Catastrophizing helps nobody.
Nothing else.
Now tell me: what do we do about it?
Alarm is easy. Solutions are hard.
NOBODY.
#rankedchoicevoting for better representation (if we get a chance again)
You don’t realize how the gov works? You need the majority to do that. Democrats never had that.
Mostly bc people like you refuse to do anything to help until it’s too late.
Trump can stiff his vendors but the US government isn’t a business.
My disability is directly caused by something the US government did to my father .... Nice right.
Why comply if it isn’t lawful?
Illegal? Yes
Will anything be done about it? No
Many of the actual owners think so too.
So he dictates every waking dream into our nightmares.
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated?
Welcome to the machine.
They are going to try to procedurally drag it out in the courts as long as possible.
I know legal experts say it will get to SCOTUS quickly, but for student loan recipients, NIH grant recipients it won’t be soon enough
YES… I AM SCREAMING IT.
APPARENTLY THE MEDIA IS JUST FINE WITH EVERYTHING GOING ON!
Dems need NEW leadership.
Pass it on.
He has no appreciation for the fact that there will be reactions to and consequences from his ill-considered and illegal reckless moves.
If the law doesn't get enforced, then it's legal.
And the milquetoast Biden justice department proved that no laws bind Trump.
Those courts put a crown on him.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/27/trump-freezes-federal-aid-omb-00200891
@maddow.msnbc.com @chrislhayes.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @aclu.org @jenpsaki.msnbc.com
Both has been helped in their raise to power by the same US actors.
Milei's declared goal? To destroy the state.
While using the apparatus of the state's security forces to crush dissent against that.
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lgrgum76322h
I know those are big IFs
Those who hold the power are quite willing to usher in a totalitarian society; that is #TotalitarianCapitalism, in which the wage slaves are merely consumers, kept in line with cheap gewgaws, misinformation, and rubbishy entertainment.
Activism is being obstructed as the essential resources of existence are made harder for all to access.
Read “A Terrible Thing to Waste” by Harriet Washington. Even a week of extreme stress and malnutrition can affect a child’s health for life.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gtUWkGcBTP8&t=54s&pp=ygUYaGFtbGluZSBtaWR3YXkgY29hbGl0aW9u
—Ché Guevara
https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-project-2025-ghostwriters/
Trump & co are shutting down everything they can, until they can make it serve them.
Just like Tik Tok.
https://bsky.app/profile/fizzily.bsky.social/post/3lgffttgus22g
Less a wrecking ball than a drunk behind the wheel of a garbage truck
Tho sadly, many of the results may be the same
https://open.substack.com/pub/stevevladeck/p/120-the-impoundment-crisis-of-2025?r=1tftai&utm_medium=ios
-unilaterally rewrite constitution (see birthright citizenship)
-summarily “nullify” regulations (see civil service rules, OPM memo dated 1/27/25)
-supersede congressional powers (see impoundment of funds)…
-vilify and delegitimize existence of minorities (see anti-transgender orders)
-empower oligarchs (see Musk et al)
-and on and on and on…..
-appoint unqualified cronies to lead national security agencies (see Hegseth, Gabbard, Patel, etc, etc, etc)
-cash in on elective office (see $Strump, and too many more to count)…
-rewrite history (see Jan 6 pardons)
-empower and validate paramilitaries (see again Jan 6 pardons, subsequent appearance with president on stage)…
-threaten to invade foreign countries (see Panama, Greenland)
-purge internal watchdogs (see inspectors general)
-threaten civil servants to get them to inform on dissenters (see anti-DEI orders/memos)…
Who wants to bet that these "exceptions" will be granted to the president's oligarch friends.