I guess this is the way our government works now

The Trump administration is cutting off $10 billion in funding for social services like childcare and aid for poor families in five deep blue states.

The New York Post reported Monday that the Department of Health and Human Services will freeze funding for California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York. The freeze will affect $7.35 billion from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, program, which gives cash assistance to very poor people. The administration is also blocking $2.4 billion in Child Care Development Funding and another $869 million from the Social Services Block Grant for all five states, citing benefits going to immigrants.

  New Republic

I wonder how the millions of Trump voters in these states feel about it.  They're likely the greatest number of people who will be affected.

They don't plan on the shoe ever being on the other foot.

The Big Billionaires Bill isn't there just yet

 

FMAP = Federal Medical Assistance Percentage.  It determines how much federal funding for Medicaid and social services states will get and match.

Uh-oh.

He won't deport him.  And casually discussing deporting any American citizen is anathema to the Constitution.  We're outside the Constitution now.  Kind of like when we divorced the dollar from the gold.   Nothing is stable.

And, btw, who is his tailor?  Look at that shoulder - 5 inches of suit beyond where his actual shoulder is.  

Making it obvious Trump and GOP Congress critters don't care whether the public likes it or not.

Additional developments will be updated here.

UPDATE 02:13 pm:  Done.

51-50.  5150 is police code for a situation involving psychotic people.

Tillis, Paul, and Collins (!) voted no.  JD Vance cast the tie breaking vote.

American gulag archipelago.

Big, beautiful lies.

Vote "yay".  Fucking idiot.

Wow.  That's incredible.  Who knew Lisa Murkowski would turn into a weak cunt?

CALL YOUR REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVES IN  THE HOUSE.  Right now, they're more afraid of Trump than you when it comes to keeping their jobs.  Change that.

UPDATE 07/02/2025:

You knew it was coming

Republicans have wanted to destroy and then privatize Medicare and Social Security for ages.  MAGA loyalists aren't going to be so eager when their Medicare and Social Security get messed with.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

This is what defunding the police means