Trump’s choice to lead HUD has a history of voting against protections for poor tenants. His pick to lead the IRS once pushed to abolish the agency entirely. Revisit our reporting on some of Trump’s key appointees: - ThreadSky

propublica.org • 75 days ago

Trump’s choice to lead HUD has a history of voting against protections for poor tenants.

His pick to lead the IRS once pushed to abolish the agency entirely.

Revisit our reporting on some of Trump’s key appointees:

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kellygrochow.bsky.social•75 days ago

There is already a resolution in the house to dismantle the IRS. Was introduced on January 3rd.

8therich-hurl.bsky.social•75 days ago

Please share this with @kaine.senate.gov and @markwarner.bsky.social who think it's 1990 politics as usual. Resistance is key, not abdication.

njcnlr.bsky.social•75 days ago

It’s what one does to bring down a government. We are now Germany in the 1930s.

sdbauer.bsky.social•75 days ago

Ronald Reagan started the trend of appointing people who oppose the mission of the agency. See James Watt and Ann Gorsuch.

admin-user.bsky.social•75 days ago

The reason Trump and musk want less government is the same reason why criminals want less cops.
Because they’re literally both criminals, and want less cops. In particular less financial cops… to chase them for their financial crimes.

nishb.bsky.social•75 days ago

Among every other agency, HUD will be drastically changed under #Project2025. He is installing more puppets to fulfill project 2025.

retiredmohel.bsky.social•75 days ago

According to most sources… our shitstain’s nominations for key leaders of the American military and intelligence agencies…

Has given Putin the largest and longest lasting erection of his life

sylvie2u.bsky.social•75 days ago

25th the 47th

sylvie2u.bsky.social•75 days ago

25th the 47th

vinniewarlock.bsky.social•75 days ago

Trump is doing a wonderful job of dismantling the government and sabotaging the country. Daddy Putin is very proud of him.

eddievega.bsky.social•75 days ago

He appoints people that have an opposite view on the missions of each department you listed. Which leads me to understand, he doesn't want to govern, he wants to destroy.

mushymiddle.bsky.social•75 days ago

A deeply destructive administration. Trumpism is the ability to wrap oneself in the flag while cheering for the country's destruction from within.

justdisa.bsky.social•75 days ago

I just don't understand what people in deep red Trump states think is going to happen to them if people in blue states stop paying federal taxes.

stephscythes.bsky.social•75 days ago

#BigTruth: https://l.smartnews.com/p-ix2b2Hu/36WOlh
#VichyAmerikkka
#VichyDC
#VichyFrance
#PuppetAmerikkka
#FelonRapistTrump🟠💀🟠
#ElonNAZI While Trump has rapidly & ruthlessly sown chaos, the #centrist Democratic #gerontocrats 🔵🐀🔵 have offered up little more than limp banalities & platitudes, 🔥as expected.

billga2603.bsky.social•75 days ago

He didn't manage to come up with that himself. We need to out his paymasters. They sadly will still be among us after we have gotten rid of him.

gobird.bsky.social•75 days ago

How very true.
We know his ideas tend towards things like gold sneakers or autographed bibles.

billga2603.bsky.social•75 days ago

Autographed by the main man himself? Wow!

gobird.bsky.social•75 days ago

As I understand it, autographed by Trump himself!

billga2603.bsky.social•75 days ago

Ah. Given it was a bible I imagined Trump would have had it autographed by THE man ( if such he be).

gobird.bsky.social•75 days ago

I believe Trump considers himself to be THE man.

timotea.bsky.social•75 days ago

Good article. 🙏

kamauatl.bsky.social•75 days ago

All this tracks for a movement that wishes to dramatically reduce federal government

jon639.bsky.social•75 days ago

Per Vought: Trumps administration involve building a “shadow” Office of Legal Counsel...The office, part of the DOJ, advises the president on the scope of their powers. Vought made clear he wants the office to help Trump steamroll the kind of internal opposition he faced in his first term.

truenorthpoint.bsky.social•75 days ago

No need. Most of us understand exactly what he is doing. What we do need to know is who will step up to pull us out of this trump toilet?

rosebud-97.bsky.social•75 days ago

Re-read Mary Trump’s books to see how son Drumpf follows in the ways of slum landlord Father Fred Drumpf…cut from same cloth.

artweber.bsky.social•75 days ago

Trump's end goal is to transform our entire government into an oligarchy working for HIM, *not* the American people. He gets there by lying, hiring loyalists, and sowing chaos, doubt, fear, and hate. Trump is doing Putin's work FOR him.

Resist!
https://usa.gov/elected-officials
https://indivisible.org
https://aclu.org

nereus9.bsky.social•75 days ago

Yeah. He told us a zillion times before the election that he was going to basically destroy the federal government.

And then make a Trump government. It's in Project 2025.

Idiots still voted for him.

thewritingchef.bsky.social•75 days ago

Idiots also didn't vote for the one person who could have kept him from doing this and thousands of other destructive things. The simplest and most elegant solution to the Trump problem. Because now we have to take thousands of individual actions to try to mitigate the damage instead.

crochet-millenial.bsky.social•75 days ago

I mean, we knew his idiots would vote for him no matter what he said. I’m mad at the idiots who stayed home or voted for Jill Stein.

shawnfeb24.bsky.social•75 days ago

This where Felon 47 really gets to make his vile, sick mark.

dd-dd-nov.bsky.social•75 days ago

I guess we can get someone more unqualified than Ben Carson.

sundancer04.bsky.social•75 days ago

What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Do we want Trump making ALL the decisions affecting our lives?

callmedon.bsky.social•75 days ago

I just want to know when that eternal audit is going to end so we can get a peak at the corrupt joke that is Felon47’s taxes?

bozo777.bsky.social•75 days ago

A consistent characteristic of Trump nominees is total disdain for the department they are proposed to lead.

kristies.bsky.social•75 days ago

These cabinet nominations do not support the average American at all. People need to read more, and press Congress to fight for us. 😡

hhgirl208.bsky.social•74 days ago

HUD has been increasing rent every year for the last 7 years. They also are given priority to refugees. What America does for them they damn sure don't do for an American citizen. Refugee husband and wife with 8 children get all the benefits while American citizens can't get anything. DAMN SHAME!!

hhgirl208.bsky.social•74 days ago

HUD is getting grant money to fix up apartments and 2 bdrm apartments are charging tenants high rent even when playing 30% gross income.

shebatiti.bsky.social•75 days ago

In 2023, there were 300 million phone calls to the IRS. Because of their staffing shortage they were only able to answer 40 million calls.

iwanttobreakfree.bsky.social•70 days ago

Trumps dad had no problem kicking poor family's out to the street. We are in crisis mode.

fredahadley.bsky.social•75 days ago

Just like most want to be dictators they wanted silence anybody or anything that would hinder them to the path of total domination. Trump is just like them but look what happens to those who try to be dictators. They don't last long and if they do they normally come to a bad end one way or another.

gallomachisimo.bsky.social•75 days ago

At this point it's pretty obvious that Donald is choosing people that will either damage, dismantle, or foment chaos in the departments to which they are appointed. If he were still alive, Trump would probably appoint Josef Mengele for Director of HHS. Good people on both sides you know...

orangeintheroc.bsky.social•75 days ago

You thinking hard to buy a house now….just wait…lols!!!

lovedogs8.bsky.social•75 days ago

He kicked an old lady out of her home to build his failed casino.

ms-lj.bsky.social•75 days ago

Ok. There is nothing we can do apparently because #gop and most democrats care more about their portfolios than constituents. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

mungomortimer.bsky.social•75 days ago

President Look-Before-Leaping

toddadam.bsky.social•75 days ago

george-ken.bsky.social•75 days ago

When does rump administration become a Criminal Enterprise ?

sublime1847.bsky.social•75 days ago

For all the trump isn't a racist chump people out there, why does he keep picking black people who have ZERO experience in housing as HUD secretary? Someone explain this to me because it seems blatantly obvious to me.

chaosexplained.bsky.social•75 days ago

Trump’s appointments are a direct attack on government oversight. The people he’s picking have actively fought against the missions of their agencies. This isn’t about leadership—it’s about gutting institutions from the inside. We must pay attention and push back

krissss.bsky.social•75 days ago

And just how are we supposed to push back or “resist” any of this?? It doesn’t seem to phase any of them and they hire who they want anyway. It seems to be all bad news with no resisting from the top at all.

cowgirl52.bsky.social•75 days ago

They are the Administration of Cruelty. Look out Rednecks! 🤠

sublime1847.bsky.social•75 days ago

If this picture didn't happen before AI was widespread I would say it was fake. 😜 Supreme race on full display here ladies and gents. bow down in subservience. (seriously no, just point and laugh)

donelser.bsky.social•75 days ago

The trees are voting for the axe because it claims to be made of wood like them.

erin2go.bsky.social•75 days ago

"And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw."
- Rush

lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social•75 days ago

The poetry of putting foxes in charge of henhouses reaches new heights. What better way to dismantle government than to appoint leaders who've made careers of trying to destroy the very agencies they're meant to lead? The art of sabotage becomes federal policy.

plumber4america.bsky.social•75 days ago

They're trying to abolish the IRS rn.

reigart.bsky.social•75 days ago

This country will stop functioning without the revenue the IRS bring in. So there's that..... Morons.

gobird.bsky.social•75 days ago

And launch the external revenue service!

plumber4america.bsky.social•75 days ago

Where everything is crypto and the rich poop out gold.

dogs-cats9064.bsky.social•75 days ago

Trump is nothing but an old fart who is set in his ways

idushka.bsky.social•75 days ago

I certainly don’t want to pay taxes during this administration.
I don’t want my money used by criminals.

crochet-millenial.bsky.social•75 days ago

Ugh - choosing a man who wants to do away with the ban on asbestos to be second-in-command of the EPA is just insane. We know that it causes cancer…good grief 🤦‍♀️

drg2.bsky.social•75 days ago

Disgusting people

idunnowhy.bsky.social•74 days ago

It's like they are trying to tear down the country...wait...maybe so?

gobird.bsky.social•75 days ago

Trumpers cheer the dismantling of our government with nary a thought as to how it will be rebuilt.

gobird.bsky.social•75 days ago

This is no different than his first term, except he can now choose loyalists that also wish to dismantle the agency they head.

bikeguy2024.bsky.social•75 days ago

Resist the stupidity, racism, and death care policies of FOTUS!

cmcarr.bsky.social•75 days ago

Instead of DEI, he prefers TEI, Trump Endorsed Incompetence

artsaveslives1.bsky.social•75 days ago

Of course they do.

clairemarz.bsky.social•75 days ago

Demolishing protections for tenants is nostalgic for Trump.

michael-iger.bsky.social•75 days ago

They clearly will reshape Government as Trump attacks Civil Service to put in compromised replacements based on loyalty to him and MAGA. MAGA isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the pack. We have proof in Trump's first weeks in office, and the new hires royally screwing up along with with him.

michaelsolomon2.bsky.social•75 days ago

It's a fascist regime pure-and-simple. All toadying to the "dear-leader-for-life"

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