Hey, I wonder if any of them have considered that it’s a mistake to run everything through Los Federales and be dependent on Los Federales for these types of programs and funding, instead of doing it themselves as the Constitution deems?
California, New York and other blue states to sue Trump over $10B cut to welfare funding
California and four other Democrat-run states are planning to sue the Trump administration over $10 billion in cuts to welfare programs.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta told POLITICO he and attorneys general for New York, Colorado, Minnesota, and Illinois will file a lawsuit on Thursday to challenge the funding freeze announced earlier this week by Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services. The cuts are in response to what federal officials have alleged without evidence is widespread fraud and waste of public funds by the states’ welfare agencies.
“They literally just targeted Democratic states because they’re Democrat,” Bonta said in an interview. “They have not one shred, not one shred of evidence, and to turn off the funding with no justification. It’s unlawful and it’s also petty.” (snip)
On Tuesday, federal officials notified the states of plans to withhold $7 billion in funding from the TANF program, as well as $2.4 billion from the Child Care and Development Fund and $870 million in social services grants for children.
Bonta accused Trump of overstepping his powers by trying to cut off money Congress had already allocated to the states.
In addition to the funding cuts Trump officials also requested data from the five states on how they administer their welfare programs. Bonta seized on the data request, saying it illustrated the administration’s misplaced priorities.
Trump didn’t just target those stays on a whim. Except perhaps Minnesota. Do they have whistleblowers? Some inside information? Obvioiusly, trying to make sure that The People’s Money doesn’t disappear into a blackhole of graft, waste, and abuse is “misplaced.”
Speaking of graft, waste, and abuse, otherwise known as “what could possibly go wrong”
Trump is very angry that most people hate him
His approval ratings are horrible.
When the Supremes tell him that his tariffs are illegal taxes and that only Congress has that power God only knows what he will do. He is already threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. And cancel the Constitution
Nice try, Johnny-he has abided by every court ruling either against him or for him. The Insurrection Act, nor using the Insurrection Act, isn’t unconstitutional
Betting odds on the House remaining GOP have fallen even further. From 1 chance out of 4, to 1 chance out of 5, I got in with Predict when the odds were 1 out of 3.
Unlike Pelosi who was more moderate and said “impeachment is off the table”, I expect that with the gavel in Jefferies hand, impeachment will be first in the to do list
Let ’em sue. Just make them bring the receipts for that money. If the money is going to fund the Democrat party they will lose.
Turns out the sweet innocent dead lesbian was a trained provocateur.
Renee Nicole Good was member of ICE Watch group that monitors and interferes with immigration enforcement operations
https://www.foxnews.com/us/renee-nicole-good-part-ice-watch-group-dhs-sources-say
FAFO.
Our esteemed host began:
No, of course they don’t consider it a mistake, because yeah, they’ve been sucking at the federal
di . . .teat since the Nixon Administration and “revenue sharing,” so yeah, they might lose some dollars now, but they’ve been getting them for 57 years now.Revenue sharing was a bold, bold plan which has enabled the states to spend more than they have been willing to tax their citizens themselves, because most states have balanced budget requirements, and Uncle Sam does not. The states have, in effect, passed their own deficits on to the federal government, and now we’re 38 trillion in debt.
The concept of federal progressive taxation, which saved AND built the nation and working class after WWII, has been dying since 1981.
Conservatives consider that FDR was a commie, what with all his communist ideas about the wealthy sharing their good fortunes with the working class – especially programs like Social Security, WPA, not to mention his authoritarian FDIC, SEC, NLRA etc! Oh yeah, he also won WWII and ended the Great Depression and made America a global superpower.
The richest nation in the history of nations (current total household wealth approaching $200 TRILLION!!!) could pay off the debt today!! The superwealthy (richest 1%) holds about $60 TRILLION. Good for them. Each and every one, including the Walton heirs, the trump kids, the Musk kids, have worked really hard to earn their money.
And this is all getting worse for working Americans under trump (but better for the 1%!!!).
Policies enacted over at least the past 50 years (both Dems AND Repubes) either directly or indirectly redistribute resources from the working class to the leisure class!
Trade policies push jobs overseas. Labor policies squelch unions. Healthcare policies take money out of workers pockets and gives it to wealthy corporations (see Senator Scott (R-FL). Immigration laws permit the abuse and underpayment of immigrant workers. The War Department pays billions to contractors but peanuts to troops – who are being used to enrich the oil industry – underpaid, brave troops are being used to enrich the wealthy!!!
Bankruptcy law permits the wealthy to avoid justice. Pardons reward the biggest of fraudsters. Tax policy speaks for itself – most years, YOU pay a higher percentage of your income than does Gates, Buffett, trump, etc (by the way trump and the MAGATs CUT tax enforcement). Sales taxes, insurance laws, energy regs, etc, etc and so forth. Don’t forget election law – where Citizens United vs the FEC permitted billionaires nearly unlimited access to control elections. Elon made a fourth quarter, quarter BILLION $ donation to trump likely winning him PA, WI, MI.
Do you really believe today’s superwealthy have the best interests of average Americans in mind?
Most of your federal tax dollars pay for the Dept of War, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Interest! You pay a higher percentage of your income to finance America than does trump, Musk, Bessent, Gates, Huang, Ellison, the Waltons etc!!
Who has all the political power? trump, Musk, Bessent, Gates, Huang, Ellison et al. Two-thirds of our Senators are millionaires!! About 50% of the People’s House are millionaires! The People’s House, right, LOL.
America’s elites have been building a plutoccracy where the wealthy control the levers of government. It is now built.
“Concept of progressive federal taxation dying since 1981..”. Total BS. Since tax rates were lowered the percentage of the total amount of taxes has risen for the top 1%. It’s actually become more progressive than it was earlier
Bullshit. Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford managed to cut the massive WWII debt from 120% of GDP to 23%!! The top marginal tax rate (look up what that means) during and followning WWII was 94%, dropping to 70% in 1964, to 50% in 1986, to 28% in 1986, 31% in 1990, 38% in 1993, to 35% 2006, 39% in 2013, 37% in 2017… At the same time the debt was plummeting Americans built the incredible American working class – colleges, schools, highways, bridges, airports, water and sewage infrastructure, research, protections for workers…
In 1974 the debt had dropped to a low and sustainable 20% of GDP but started to rise after. Vietnam was costly. Then tax cuts and Dept of War spending in the 80s caused a 3 fold increase in the debt! The rest is history! Continued low taxes and the mid-east wars, two major recessions… and here we are. Debt to GDP of 81-83%.
The debt was driven by structural factors like an aging population and rising healthcare costs, significant tax cuts, increased defense and emergency spending (for wars, recessions and pandemics), and rising interest payments on the debt itself.
LOL. Your Lard and Savor, Mr trump, is not helping your movement at all.
Even in Big Blue states like NY, CA, most of the counties vote red, and are poor!! Stupid don is hurting his own people!!
Please insist that AG Blondi follow the law and release the files, so Stupid don can stop with the dangerous distractions. Yes, yes, we know whatever info is in the files must by horribly, horribly bad for trump – but his distractions – Venezuela, Greenland, Minneapolis, Portland, Nigeria, Iran, Caribbean, Canada, ICE, Colombia, ballroom are worse for the nation, the once UNITED States of America.
trump is willing sacrifice the nation.
Rimjob with his daily dose of
rabble.
CumBreath with a bad, bad case of DOS!!! Dowd Obsession Syndrome! LOL. He responds to every comment with the same silliness.
He ain’t never discussed nuttin’! LOL. Rumor is he is William’s Down Syndromed big brother, paid by William. So give him a break.
Must really bug ya, huh?
Bwaha! Lolgfy Rimjob!
MAGA47 Motherfucker!
So in other words the US tax system has become more progressive since 1981.