Trump has cut the NIH budget by more than half in defiance of Congressionally mandated appropriations for the agency. No comparison historically, not even the Great Recession. This is clearly not legal and Congress needs to address it.
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Americans are too slow in understanding that they are now living in an *entrenched autocracy* where the rule of law is gone as far as the Trusk regime is concerned.
Meanwhile the Dems are functioning largely as a mere democratic fig leaf ("bloc party").
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This is an absolute tragedy...and illegal. Where are Congress and the courts? Where is the media? Where are the tens of thousands of people whose loved ones have cancer?
Federalist 47 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
I’m not understanding why dems in congress can’t take some legal action against this. it’s already law, they don’t need to pass new legislation, shouldn’t need a majority to get courts to intervene. can a legal expert explain this to me?
Dems are the minority - no power in our system. Minority Rule in every branch of govt & SCOTUS. This was engineered over a 59 year period & financed by the uber-wealthy & the most pious & wealthy of all religions.
Reagan killed Truth in Broadcasting, Fox began RU propaganda to brainwash religious
*Republicans* need to address it. Perhaps *journalists* could render assistance. Maybe in the form of cutting off a Sunday show filibuster by say Sen Lankford, and asking a well-researched follow-up question.
I think all these regime edicts are unlawful. It will come down to SCOTUS. The majority are right wing Christian Nationalist White Supremacist. Do they want a dictator? We will find out
This was not a budget cut per se, but mainly a result of the NIH interim leadership canceling the decision meetings where peer reviewed grants are approved for funding. Grant reviews also postponed. They basically shut off the flow for typical grant award approvals. “Effectively cut” for sure!
At least it was 1 republican attempting to doing something (underline, italics) about illegal withholding of congressional appropriations - Susan Collins being the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Money is being retained in Treasury which dispenses it - it will be stolen & put into Crypto & we shall be penniless.
Social Security we paid into our entire lives will disappear with a touch of the button.
Thiel’s Palantir software installed in DOO & CIA and now every agency DIGE has entered.
The problem is that I currently have zero faith that congress will do anything to push back against the illegalities of this administration. As the days pass, it just feels more and more surreal. I don't recognize my government any more.
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Meanwhile the Dems are functioning largely as a mere democratic fig leaf ("bloc party").
Thread: https://bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3ljxag4z5u425
Reagan killed Truth in Broadcasting, Fox began RU propaganda to brainwash religious
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https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/32725letterreemergencydesignations.pdf
Social Security we paid into our entire lives will disappear with a touch of the button.
Thiel’s Palantir software installed in DOO & CIA and now every agency DIGE has entered.