Trump admin rescinds controversial funding freeze after two days of protest
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Jakelshark
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This feels like Trumps style in general. Huge proclamation, immediately walks it back, then the more "reasonable" cuts come after the initial outrage has tapered off.
I submitted a BUILD/RAISE grant app this week, because well I did work on it for two months, but I have zero belief it'll even be looked at.
I submitted a BUILD/RAISE grant app this week, because well I did work on it for two months, but I have zero belief it'll even be looked at.
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Did they rescind it, or was it blocked by the courts? Seems more like the second option
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But he learned so much in those two days. And he has a brand new health care system that he'll unveil very shortly.
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Here's hoping you are successful, even with the current climate....
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Everything they want to cut will still get cut, now it's a game of keeping it small enough that the media (more aligned idealogically with Trump than they are aesthetically) won't make such a fuss
The chaotic rollout and roll-back uses up a lot of the outrage, now it's "old news" when it comes through more quitely
The chaotic rollout and roll-back uses up a lot of the outrage, now it's "old news" when it comes through more quitely
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Chaos and unbridled unintended consequences with a hearty dosing of malice and hatred.
What is a Trump Administration?
What is a Trump Administration?
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The chilling effect will be real, anyway. Any investment or planning that relies in any way on government funding or approval will get put on hold for the next four years.
Maybe longer, if the GOP doesn't kick their addiction to fascism.
Maybe longer, if the GOP doesn't kick their addiction to fascism.
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Life comes at you fast, the WH is claiming that it doesn't stop the funding freeze, they're just trying to get around the court injunction
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Okay so the Administration is now claiming this in not a recension of the federal freeze, just of the OPM memo? I guess to try and get around the court order?
As always, nothing but confusion.
Comment from the Press Secretary on Twitter below.
As always, nothing but confusion.
Comment from the Press Secretary on Twitter below.
Karoline Leavitt said:
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I see a most of Trump's executive orders as deliberate distractions aimed at keeping attention away from his real agenda which is to grift more money for himself. He doesn't care if the EOs succeed or fail as long as they distract.
I'd suggest that what he really cares about and wants to keep attention from is his crypto scam which stands to net him billions if successful. YMMV.
I'd suggest that what he really cares about and wants to keep attention from is his crypto scam which stands to net him billions if successful. YMMV.
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This gives me a flicker of hope that Trump's proposed tariff trade war with Canada, which is based on the same sort of insane, completely non-thought-out and wholly fabricated dogmatic ideological phantasms (Canadian industrial scale fentanyl labs run by Mexican cartels) will last about as long as this once the shit hits the fan and the economic chaos and massive recession they create proves to be immensely unpopular among Americans.
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That might be what Trump cares about, but the Project 2025 jackboots running his administration very much want to smash the state and rebuild America in their white-hooded image.
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It doesn't matter that they've rescinded it, for now, because they've shown us a card in their hand we know they're willing to go after this stuff and that they don't care about the consequences. And they haven't rescinded any of their other damaging orders either
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And don't forget retribution/revenge, he's out for blood as a personal vendetta this time for those he thinks wronged or robbed him of what should have been his, as well as those of insufficient loyalty last time
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If you want to know why this happened, it's because the brain geniuses in charge of generating these Executive Orders are all Hillsdale College freaks who are so boiled in their own propaganda they saw "grants" and thought they went exclusively to Lesbian Safe Injection Sites and Vassar College's Bachelors Degree Program in Decolonizing Microaggressions.
They were surprised to learn that the government does not, in fact, spend a huge portion of taxes on free blue hair dye for non-binary tweens, and that mostly it goes to operating programs that feed starving children and keep veterans in homes and pays for newborns to go to pediatricians.
This is new information to them, because they believe that 80% of our tax dollars go to unemployed starbucks working (??) queer artist millenials and lazy unemployed illegal immigrants taking American's job's kidnapping blonde women from Idaho.
If you think I'm kidding, know that I am particularly professionally close to how these things work and I am certainly not.
They were surprised to learn that the government does not, in fact, spend a huge portion of taxes on free blue hair dye for non-binary tweens, and that mostly it goes to operating programs that feed starving children and keep veterans in homes and pays for newborns to go to pediatricians.
This is new information to them, because they believe that 80% of our tax dollars go to unemployed starbucks working (??) queer artist millenials and lazy unemployed illegal immigrants taking American's job's kidnapping blonde women from Idaho.
If you think I'm kidding, know that I am particularly professionally close to how these things work and I am certainly not.
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First one, then the other.
This does show that the Trump Administration does not have complete control. Outrage and pushback will cause them to back down.
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We just got a victory. Celebrate it. We don't need defeatism making people feel that whatever happens is inevitable. This just showed that it's not.
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Please stop posting this. It is utter dreck, barely disguised propaganda. You're just repeating the "Stab in the Back" legend with a nice Power Point presentation.
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Trump didn't win by a mile. He barely squeeked by. And Republican control of the House and Senate isn't in huge margins either.
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For a while anyways, it just means they need to try again harder/sneaker next time. Besides, this one most outrageous thing is now giving cover to all the other slightly less outrageous things they did that they haven't rescinded or backed down on. So claiming victory when only one out of X has been retreated on is both hollow and probably exactly what they want to happen
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It doesn't help that the average American apparently reads at the sixth grade level. What we have here is the malevolent misleading the ignorant.
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If they didn't care about the consequences, then why did they back down?
They want you to think they don't care, so they can get away with things. In reality, they're just as scared as anyone else.
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Scroll up a bit... This is not a victory, they're just getting around the court injunction, the underlying orders remain in place and will be enforced slightly differently
The point of my comment was that the underlying ideology behind these events stays in power, and it will be expressed in a less disruptive way if necessary to avoid backlash. It is not, nor will it ever be, time to go back to brunch.
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