USAID is an agency created by Congress and it can’t be closed by presidential fiat - or whatever role Musk pretends to have. Is there really going to be no pushback at all? Where is Congress?
I also want to know how secure are these servers that they’re using to lock others out of these systems? Did Elon just hand over all our government data to Chinese hackers?
They haven’t got to discovery (at least I don’t think so) in any of the lawsuits. Pretty sure it’s just been pleadings and leaks to the press. Official document requests, subpoenas to third parties, depositions, etc is when parties explore the proof the other side has for their claims and regardless how strong you may feel, it’s too early to predict a win for anyone
30 prosecutors from the Washington DOJ office walked tonight for prosecuting J6ers. That’s quite a large percentage of the field office. Oh and DC is a unique place with federal jurisdiction so the local DOJ office handles most crimes in the city with the local “state” AG office takes stuff like traffic and juvie cases. Anyone feel safer? Who wants to drive to DC and commit felonies?
Trump likely believes HIV is a gay and/or black people problem. Aid to gays and blacks is inconsistent with his priorities so it has to go.
More likely- reports saying if review of web material was too voluminous to get through by 5p today then it came down
So wait. The guy nominated to run the FBI received $900k from Trump’s media company this Tuesday and not one article in a major newspaper blasting the corruption? Surely this is at least half as important as one time when Bill Clinton was on the same plane with the AG while his wife ran for president- right? I mean what the actual fuck.
Is it political to point out that these tariffs are prohibited by the trade agreement his administration negotiated and signed? You’d think it’s in the government’s interest to respect treaties or trade agreements with our allies - but nah fuck all that. Let’s disrupt favorable international relations for funsies.
Oh also you seem to be missing impacts on housing due to lumber tariffs, increased costs for aluminum, the Fed keeping interest rates high, private sector more likely to implement hiring freezes to stockpile cash in case of an economic downturn, and the retaliation against goods we export which all will inevitably make kitchen table issues more expensive and also destabilize the stock markets.
Should we also ignore that it seems a material motive for the administration is rooted in misunderstanding the definition of a trade deficit? Because that seems like an important part of this whole situation too
What absolute bull shit - Also, what’s worse: the intentional constitutional overreach or that some random jack off can freeze billions in appropriated funds without authorization?