Breaking news: The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.
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This is not how one conducts governmental reviews or audits. This will harm our country in the days & weeks to come. Donald's deliberately stalling our country dead in its tracks. https://youtu.be/2ajp_-U1b8c
When you have a moron sitting in the newsroom at the WH what can one expect? We can only help that all the grants and loans that go to support the MAGA cult means they will begin to fail and cycle into the sh*thole that their leader lives.
How to use maximum effort to shut government down with by using intentional chaos to make it so dysfunctional that the only response is to sit, keep your head down and hope the new trump snitch employee working at the desk next to you never looks your way.
I wonder if you’ll ever report on the immediate and widespread destruction these actions will cause to our economy.
And perhaps eventually you might venture to guess why he’d want to destroy the greatest economic power the world has ever known.
The treasury has been hijacked by a con artist & fraud who has no problem lining his pockets from the government coffers via conversion, misappropriation, influence peddling & other types of graft.
He's trying to tear down the American people. He wants Americans to be like Russian people, no power, no say in their government, lied to over national media. Financially broke. That's what the tariffs are really about. Trump wants to break the American people.
I’d say it’s Putins doing and orange, dumb, shit diaper is doing as told. He’s not smart enough to think of this. He doesn’t know how the government works. I’d bet everything I own he’s never read the constitution, much less understands it.
He’s flooding media looking for coverage & chaos. It’s hard to keep calm. I don’t think We the People ( WTP) who didn’t vote for him can do this alone. We need to work on enlightening WTP who didn’t to see the adverse impact on them e.g. Top three states receiving FEMA $: FL, TX and LA.
The lack of critical thinking skills and compassion is appalling. I thought the DOGE billionaires were going to analyze and make recommendations. How many people have to lose their jobs, go hungry, etc etc before citizens have had enough.
Their goal has always been to destroy the govt from within because they (rich people) will be just fine. Chaos benefits the lawless because it weakens or distracts the institutions that are built to protect the rest of us. But you are stupid if you think us common people will benefit from chaos.
So, which already unbalanced scientist, who just had their funding cut off and life's work ruined, will be pushed to become a supervillain? Of course, if the president's evil then they'll be good...this timeline is so confusing
Trump is on course to rapidly raise the unemployment and homelessness rates.
The ripple effect of his first 10 days in office will cause a loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs.
It's gonna rule when the Dems get back in power and don't turn all this shit back on by executive order, because of some arcane rule they found that they now have to abide by
If we can wake up our neighbors and family who voted for this it may help out the representatives that are in their fighting for us. Collect the evidence, map his blatant lies so they at least start to doubt the MAGA nonsense and we may have a chance.
Democrats?? Democrats!? Do you mean Democratic Leadership? We can’t wait for someone to tell us what to do. We need to participate more locally, and to raise our voices to our representatives, local and state government. They need to take a stand and reach out more to us.
Grow a pair. Start obstructing. Anything than what they're doing now, which is sitting on their asses waiting for more EOs to drop, grants to be pulled, agencies to shutter, and people to be fired. There are levers you can pull when you're out of power.
You're right. We should never ask our representatives to take action of any kind unless it's a guaranteed success. We are but poor peasants and they are lords and ladies too fine to dirty their hands.
Americans voted for a felon that literally tried to overturn their election with faux electors. I want to see these retard suckers suffer for taking the bait.
Left wing media online doesn’t support the party. Dems are virtually dead.
I was wondering the same. I'm hoping not. My college sent me an email that my loan for this semester had been dispersed and a refund would be on its way to my bank account. I'm hopeful that means it wasn't affected by this.
Here are MAGAts, milling around like the sheepish dung beetles they are, trying to look official & like they know what they're doing.
So why is it that Dems can't get it together & do collective press conferences giving information in a media-friendly conversational way & showing strength & unity?
This is huge and will be ridiculously damaging if continued. Damage done could impact all levels of government, critical nonprofits, infrastructure projects, funds for small businesses, faith-based organizations, and much more. These aren’t funds distributed thoughtlessly. Idiocy and dangerous.
Democrats need to inform anyone waiting for results of a scientific study or watching a new manufacturing plant being built in their community with the message: “This pause and possible cancellation of previously approved funding for your project brought to you by President Donald J. Trump.
You've spent 9+ years 'normalizing' Trump's insanity. Until you report that Trump is a sadistic psychopath, who's completely divorced from reality, and lost in a world of delusion--you are derelict in your duty, as journalists.
Just as SNAP and WIC payments are about to hit folks accounts. They will find none. Food banks will be overwhelmed and make the pandemic hit on food banks look tame in comparison.
Project 2025 was available for everyone to read months before the election . It seems that most of the voters didn't read it or they couldn't read . I warned as many as I could because this Project 2025 will hurt everyone except the Super Rich .
Also, despite media reporting the opposite, government funding is really tightly monitored. There are entire list of things you can’t spend money on. It’s not a free-for-all.
How do you know it’s wasteful if it hasn’t been analyzed? Also, it’s not the executive branch’s job to determine whether it’s wasteful or not if it’s been authorized and allocated by the legislative branch.
The pause targets specific programs tied to executive orders, not all federal assistance. Critical programs and legally mandated actions are exempt. Review period is temporary.
I don’t think that’s the case. The memo requires a review by every agency of all fed financial assistance as defined by 2 CFR 200.1. That totals ~30% of the entire federal budget. The review is to ensure alignment with executive orders but is not limited to programs tied to executive orders.
The pause targets specific programs tied to executive orders, not all federal assistance. Critical programs and legally mandated actions are exempt. Review period is temporary.
How long before we say it’s a dictatorship? He’s literally controlling all branches of government and nobody is stopping him. How long exactly? Until his cabinet appointees are all confirmed?
The US Govt is risking staying ahead of not only our friends but also our adversaries (enemies). Just a 1-day halt can result in serious damage-n-decline.
Medical Advancements will slow.
Our security will be at risk — think abt …
the health both mental & physical heat of the people including those securing our country in all aspects.
Knowledge and intellect will be at a standstill without reliable information and data.
I'm ordering a revocation of the pause, and I have just as much authority to do that as the executive branch has to order a pause.
Trump is again trying to be a dictator by executive order.
Chaos/Instability/disruption/fear/erratic are the descriptive words of the GOP takeover of our Federal Government. Clearly, Republicans cannot govern. They can only attack, destroy, disrupt, generate fear, divide, hate, lie, obstruct and insurrect.
It's really just a very sad thing. Like, in addition to all the other adjectives. Scary, infuriating. But it's really just sad that we decided to let them do this. I cannot believe how badly mainstream media failed the American people.
Project 2025 is in the works and has been for many years. Don’t pretend like no one knew this was going to happen. People were warned, and they didn’t listen.
When the bottom falls out of the bond markets tomorrow, and companies start scrambling for liquidity, I hope people remember that this is what their president was doing at the time.
I heard that KATHERINE RAMPELL and WaPo are nazis.
Is this true ?
I want to know.
I gotta be sure, cos if they are, I gotta contaxt Bezos and question him about his ties to nazis.
Please answer my question.
Yes I could believe that as Powell wasn't confirmed yet when he wrote the memo. And I'm sure it wasn't his first political go around. They are all connected Nixon, Powell etc. Just as it hasn't changed much today. Thanks for the photos.
In the late 1960's the Kochs gathered in retreats in Aspen, CO. to discuss how to return the Gilded Age of the early 1900s. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
France showed us how: stop work for 2 weeks. We need MAGA behind us too. Everyone.
“The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.”
The only thing Republicans care about are their money and their culture wars.
What the Trump administration has effectively instituted in its first week is a government shutdown potentially more complete than when congress allows our budgets to lapse. Americans have show. Repeatedly that they hate when their government stops working. That is what is happening right now.
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The spending stopped.
The wallet and blank checks are gone.
And perhaps eventually you might venture to guess why he’d want to destroy the greatest economic power the world has ever known.
They’re fulfilling the wishes of Yarvin/Musk/Thiel/Bezos/Zuck and if not thru Trump, there’s Vance, Thiel’s guy.
They aren’t hiding it anymore. AFD support, Sieg Heil, etc. All P2025/accelerationist policy
The ripple effect of his first 10 days in office will cause a loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Left wing media online doesn’t support the party. Dems are virtually dead.
So why is it that Dems can't get it together & do collective press conferences giving information in a media-friendly conversational way & showing strength & unity?
Here are the numbers from investigative reporter Greg Palast...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
...congress won't.
... maybe the judicial will?
I hope the price he got for his soul was worth it.
Or is it?
This needs to be shared far and wide
Medical Advancements will slow.
Our security will be at risk — think abt …
Knowledge and intellect will be at a standstill without reliable information and data.
While decreasing the US standing in …
Just understand the magnitude of that, silencing National Institutes of Health, cutting off the World Health Organization, etc.
Our medical system needs that information daily.
Trump is again trying to be a dictator by executive order.
Civilized society needs a stable gov. NOT this!
Is this true ?
I want to know.
I gotta be sure, cos if they are, I gotta contaxt Bezos and question him about his ties to nazis.
Please answer my question.
It's gotten worse as private money corrupts academia:
In the late 1960's the Kochs gathered in retreats in Aspen, CO. to discuss how to return the Gilded Age of the early 1900s. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
France showed us how: stop work for 2 weeks. We need MAGA behind us too. Everyone.
Well, federally at least. The COPS program provides funding for police recruitment and training for local police nationwide.
The only thing Republicans care about are their money and their culture wars.
https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump