Showing posts with label federal spending. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federal spending. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Trump 2.0 - All chaos, all the time







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UPDATE 01:22 pm:  Trump's brilliant press secretary weighs in...



It was the court's injunction that caused the confusion.  Got it.


FFS.  They CANNOT govern.  







I wouldn't bet on it.

UPDATE 01/30/2025:
As I understand it, the order to freeze funds remains in place, while the OMB’s guidance on how to implement the freeze has been rescinded, and now every agency head can just guess at how Trump might want his order to be interpreted.

  Elie Mystal


Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Judge blocks freeze




Also...



UPDATE 01/29/2025:


I heard Tim Walz say Trump won't adhere to a court ruling, and I think he's right.


Isn't that one of the first arenas of attack of every authoritarian government?  They rely and survive on the ignorance of their people.

UPDATE 01/29/2025 12:49 pm:


Trump 2.0 - all chaos, all the time.

UPDATE 01/30/2025:
As I understand it, the order to freeze funds remains in place, while the OMB’s guidance on how to implement the freeze has been rescinded, and now every agency head can just guess at how Trump might want his order to be interpreted.

  Elie Mystal


Not bending the knee




Click here for a fulsome explication of the action and its illegality.

Usurper in Chief






He's counting on "his" judges at SCOTUS.


An impeachable action.  You think GOP Congress will do anything about it?


What are you prepared to do about it, Chuck?


Unconstitutional, Dan?


UPDATE 01/28/2025:





UPDATE 01/28/2025:




And what are you prepared to do about it, Ron?

I wonder who they think is on Medicaid.  It's going to be mostly MAGA voters.


She's White House Press Secretary, and that statement is going to be used against the administration in lawsuits fighting it.  These are not smart people.*

Case in point:


Something tells me she really is that simple.



But if they force a change, they're still doing their job.

 UPDATE 07:46 pm:



*UPDATE 01/30/2025:
As I understand it, the order to freeze funds remains in place, while the OMB’s guidance on how to implement the freeze has been rescinded, and now every agency head can just guess at how Trump might want his order to be interpreted.

[...]

The Trump administration will undoubtedly argue that it is not in violation of this doctrine: Its lawyers will say that the administration really did change its implementation of the policy and so all lawsuits against the policy should be moot until the administration announces a new implementation strategy. But Karoline, bless her heart, effectively announced that her team’s lawyers will be lying. She acknowledged, by the witness of her Lord and Savior Elon Musk, that the administration is running a gambit to try to get around the current injunction against its unchanged policy.

  Elie Mystal