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The waste fraud and abuse are coming from inside the house.
And the senate, and the White House, and mar a lago
I'm not sure you're getting the reference.
They could have been thinking of the House part of Congress, since they only listed the Senate.
“The American people will no longer tolerate the blatant waste, fraud and abuse of their hard-earned tax dollars — no state should allow it either,”
Excuse me? If anything, the 2024 election made it crystal clear that the American people will, in fact, tolerate the blatant waste, fraud, and abuse of our hard-earned tax dollars. 77 million people actually voted for it.
they even published a fucking playbook called project 2025.
dumbfucks
But they super promised they never even heard of it or was going to use it. Then installed its writers in key positions. Purely by happenstance.
One of the things I hated so much about the 2024 election was all the fucking gaslighting about it, too. There were plenty saying "isn't that just a liberal conspiracy theory" and bullshit about "blue maga" (lol, whatever) and lots of the corporate media doing that sort of collective shrug about a documented plan.
Trump and the Republicans want to kill poor people.
& they are succeeding, worldwide
And you know what happens? This makes the next group of people, i.e. middle class, the next poors! Guess what they want to do to the new poors?
Jesus Christ, shut the fuck up already.
You really think suddenly taking millions of people off unemployment is just a distraction from something else?
This is life-ruining shit on a national scale.
Not everything is a "distraction" from the thing EVERYONE ALREADY FUCKING KNOWS ABOUT
But by now, everyone either knows or refuses to acknowledge that the President is a notorious pedophile.
A sudden spike in unemployment followed by waves of debt default, foreclosure, and police actions on the unemployed would seem to be the more pressing issue.
This just feels like the Iran "Today's bombing a girl's school distracts from who the President was fucking in 1997" Epstein War bullshit.
president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
Projection much, huh?
Also privilege, Republicans see themselves as privileged, it's not fraud when they do it, they are allowed, it's fraud when others without sufficient privilege do it.
This stunt actually has nothing to do with "fraud" in government spending, but as someone with experience in government procurement, contracting is where the waste is. The government actually doesn't do too badly when we keep the work in-house. It's these multimillion dollar contracts to some private company that are where the waste, fraud, and abuse are. Go fucking audit SpaceX. Revisit those contracts. Bet we can save billions every year on just one companies stupid fucking defense contracts. Then go after the rest of these contractors. Threaten to bring the work back in house and see how they react. Follow through and actually bring the work back in house, build the public sector engineering and manufacturing expertise, and see where we are.
Contracting as in having the reflection pool painted?
Waste and fraud… If only someone hadn’t started a war with Iran and then paid them $300B three months later to end it, gaining precisely nothing…
How do empires die?
Gradually then suddenly.
The US is in the latter stage.
"Lets do something fast and stupid so they stop talking about me starting and losing a war."
If they remember that, they remember I started the war to distract from my child prostitution ring.
He's gotta do something to pay Iran 300b.
If I were real honest, I'd say that I'm not sure this guy is good with money.
This is next distraction away from his complete failure in Iran and his green, moldy swimming pool. He's giving $300 billion to Iran in his total surrender, what's the total amount of assistance to be withheld in funding here?
Nah, this is social safety net cutting. Don't you know that desperate people don't care what those above them are doing? (Also, truly desperate people turn to violence, which is casus belli for a nationwide crackdown)
Not everything is a distraction, most things are moves in and of themselves. It's just that it takes place inside so much noise that focusing on one thing loses everything else.
the "fraud" starts and ends at the oval office. investigate that s.o.b. first.
Thats not true. My state governor is also a criminal and is grifting on a state level too...
pls no, this would make the crime rate skyrocket
That's the idea. Make it so the poor have no choice but commit crimes and then lock them up for it
And then, per the 13th, legal slavery!
Have to imagine this will disproportionately hurt red states and then they'll blame it on Obama or Biden or something. Really hoping some state will withhold federal taxes but I know our leaders are too spineless for that :[
California funds its own unemployment benefits, of course Trump is too stupid to know this.
They want you so desperate to cling to employment that you will no longer care about working conditions or fair wages or be willing to endanger said employment by being politically active.
Yeah...
But they're idiots.
There's not enough jobs to go around, people won't quietly starve. And the only people with anything to steal from are the wealthy.
They just created a shit ton of people with literally nothing to lose.
It’s like they are testing limits. They keep doing crazier shit week after week then say well no one is doing anything about it so let’s keep going.
Good do it. Let the states that still have a sense of sanity group up and implement a multistate unemployment assistance strategy. Seriously, perhaps its time blue states encourage the disempowerment of the federal government and transfer those programs to mutually aligned state initiatives. Leave out all the welfare red states and redirect that transfer of wealth from blue states to red states, back to their own ppl. Americas system of statehood and states rights is something dems should probably start proposing making more use of. If feds under Trump don't want social programs then build multistate programs that serve that function, leaving out the Maga central states altogether.
Jokes on them, it's basically impossible to get unemployment here to start with.
An actual traitor president and it looks like we're just gonna ride it out with our fingers crossed.
Check me if I’m wrong but the only thing he can cut is the administration funding. The actual benefits are funded by a type of insurance companies pay into. Trump can’t take that away.
All this will do is make processing claims a bitch.
He’s such a dick.
I don’t know why this is a surprise to anyone. Trump is famous for not paying contractors and workers. He waits it out until they sue and his expensive lawyers beep the plaintiffs dry or settle for some fraction of the contract price.
Wait, do we actually have unemployment assistance in the US? I thought it was just a slush fund for boondoggles I was forced to pay into. Every time I've tried to apply for it over the last 20 years I was rejected.
The new distraction from the Epstein files is here!
