BREAKING: Trump has unveiled his proposed budget. ➡️$163 billion in cuts to health care, child care, education, housing, research, clean energy, food banks, and more ➡️$1 trillion for defense and homeland security - ThreadSky

moreperfectunion.bsky.social • 13 hours ago

BREAKING: Trump has unveiled his proposed budget.

➡️$163 billion in cuts to health care, child care, education, housing, research, clean energy, food banks, and more

➡️$1 trillion for defense and homeland security

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rebelgadfly.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Why? W/ accelerated shift of US capitalist leadership to China, we become what they once were + 1 xtra
➡️US desperate, cheap, surveilled workforce commodified to toil in US & foreign-owned factories
➡️Broligarch's tech-enhanced, US funded, for-profit military hired out to foreign/network state despots

digitalramble.bsky.social•12 hours ago

president of death

mikebr.bsky.social•12 hours ago

more money to the gestapo and fuck everyone else, basically

reluctantsocial.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Let’s also cut all birthday celebrations. Another few billion saved.

reluctantsocial.bsky.social•12 hours ago

How much can we cut just by cancelling all of Musk’s contracts?

jemartinez.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It’s not hard to imagine Trump proposing financial aid to cover things like healthcare, childcare, etc, but only to those who have performed military service. It wouldn’t be enough — the current funding isn’t even enough — but it’s the kind of snake oil, divide and conquer propaganda he’s skilled at

ahhaenlighten777.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Getting ready for war with Russia against the world....our tax dollars are going to kill us and other innocents...🤬

wernherneumann.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Literally the only thing Leon Musk accomplished is SHIFTING $160 billion FROM education, the environment, science, the arts, civil rights, etc TO defense and building a wall.

Leon saved NOTHING. He took it from those in need and gave it to defense and security contractors.

thewokestgamer.bsky.social•8 hours ago

This is the budgeting of one who rules through fear and misery, not one who serves the people.

yummymaichi.bsky.social•11 hours ago

can he just slip on a banana peel already

nahenni.bsky.social•12 hours ago

We need the defense budget because we have been made unsafe. A large part of that budget should be put under expenses of the president.

chirimoyajoyful.bsky.social•5 hours ago

You guys should just kill him, grow some balls and fucking end him

mikeregister.bsky.social•12 hours ago

A budget reveals the true values of an organization. This budget reveals an America that values war and death above all else.

jstrider.space•12 hours ago

Win the House and the Senate during the midterms and impeached this asshole.

colonquake.bsky.social•12 hours ago

“Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” but we’ll write blank checks for the military

vapidchuckles.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Do republicans understand that “a hundred billion” is still less, not more, than “a trillion”?

patterson.bsky.social•12 hours ago

So… less for things people rely on and more for a department that fails audits because they can’t account for how they spend what money they already get.

serfthewave.bsky.social•12 hours ago

A general strike would fix this.

barbarianreed.bsky.social•12 hours ago

That’s what we think @generalstrikeus.bsky.social

serfthewave.bsky.social•8 hours ago

And to anyone who says it's illegal to do a general strike in America... have ya'll seen this administration? Are we really concerned about what's legal? I'm not at this point.

barbarianreed.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Exactly! Also if you’re not in a union, it’s not illegal, but you could get fired - but you could get fired/laid off anyway.

shadowraven999.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I thought they were concerned about the deficit?

670rv.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Our NEIGHBORS:

https://bsky.app/profile/theradr.bsky.social/post/3lo76agb7m22e

ninefates.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Countries that are trying to care about its citizens vs. A country that actively despises its citizens

670rv.bsky.social•12 hours ago

"despises" - yes indeed!

https://bsky.app/profile/670rv.bsky.social/post/3lo6mumryhc2c

heikofennec.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Everything unlisted: in his pockets.
Corrupt, evil orange menace

chasmaine.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Why did Elon spend $300 million to help Trump win the presidency?

Rest assured — it wasn’t about principle. It wasn’t about government efficiency. It was never about making America a better country.

Rather — it was about Musk’s wallet.

It always was.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/elon-musk-spacex-trump-budget.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE8.NgH5.MOKHlh3xf_1t&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

vorixian.bsky.social•11 hours ago

What the fuck? Why do we need so much military budget? This only would make since if war is planned.

0t-y.bsky.social•12 hours ago

They stealing all this money

magiik.bsky.social•12 hours ago

he definitely cares about the wellbeing of you and your family though, promise

mrnagrom.bsky.social•13 hours ago

what are we defending if he he defunds it all? dirt?

thewokestgamer.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Defending their ill gotten throne from those they're stealing from (us).

serfthewave.bsky.social•12 hours ago

What they've always been trying to defend. White men

mikeregister.bsky.social•12 hours ago

And white men’s capital.

pinogap.bsky.social•8 hours ago

And white men's feelings

serfthewave.bsky.social•12 hours ago

At the end of the day, that's all they really care about. If they actually even cared about white men, they'd be thinking of all the poor white men in trailer parks across America. They don't do that. It isn't care for the person. The person could lose it all, and would be nothing to them.

mikeregister.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Bingo. It’s really about the money. They just use racist tropes to dupe poor white people.

serfthewave.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Yes, they've accidentally said it out loud a few times in history. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9150190-if-you-can-convince-the-lowest-white-man-he-s-better

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

samaelmorningstar.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Johnsons point t is proven true everytime

profdet529.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Himself and his donors.

queenkoddi.bsky.social•8 hours ago

They are defending the profits they make off terrorizing people in the global south.

hard2bgreene.bsky.social•8 hours ago

* Terrorizing everyone who isn't in their inner circle.

queenkoddi.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Oh they do that with other things besides the military budget though, I was just staying on topic

hard2bgreene.bsky.social•6 hours ago

As was I, as they are already activating the military to "help local police" in advance of the tariffs fully hitting and in response to ongoing protests.

nuckles13.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Ah, yes, the Trump Reich has reared its ugly head.

samaelmorningstar.bsky.social•12 hours ago

1 trillion for Homeland Securty and DOD ? Bro what ? The hell does HLS need this money for ?

carpederpum.bsky.social•12 hours ago

EDIT: $1 trillion for war

And $1 trillion per year buys a lot of war. They're going to need hands and eyes to make those weapons fire. Now more than ever is the time to NOT JOIN THE MILITARY.

mikebr.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The funny thing is that money doesn't win wars either

theinfamousroo.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Especially when a growing part of the military economy is just scams. Money certainly a tool to win wars, but if it is handled so ineffectively it just removes any value it has.

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