Trump Executive Action thread

[Winehole23]

USAID is humpty-dumpty, wonder which executive agency is next on the presidential chopping block

[Winehole23]

“By removing long relied upon medical resources without explanation, it is likely that the each agency failed to ‘examine the relevant data and articulate a satisfactory explanation for its action including a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made,’” he wrote in his opinion. “Hand in hand with the lack of explanation, it is also likely that the agencies ‘failed to consider’ the ‘important’ issue of the substantial reliance by medical professionals on the removed webpages.“

[Winehole23]

A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's bid to pause a lower court's order that temporarily halted a massive freeze in federal funding.

A judge in Rhode Island on Monday blocked the funding freeze and ordered the government to “immediately restore frozen funding.”

In its ruling Tuesday, a three-judge panel for the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that the "defendants do not cite any authority in support of their administrative stay request or identify any harm related to a specific funding action or actions that they will face without their requested administrative stay."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...eez-rcna191671

[ChumpDumper]

How can these morons reform government if the STILL don't know what the government actually does?

[Winehole23]

they have no notion of reforming it, they're wrecking it on purpose

[Winehole23]

"fire, aim, ready"

Russ Vought is an own-the-libs kind of guy, an ideological warrior who delights in watching the world burn. Shutting down the CFPB is his idea of paradise; now the rugged capitalists can get back to work making America great again without interference from meddling bureaucrats determined to punish success.

Then he heard about the APOR tables.

APOR stands for the “average prime offer rate,” and it’s a little tool that keeps the mortgage market running. It involves public servants, every week, going in and calculating it. Those staffers work at the CFPB, and if they’re locked out, you have no APOR tables. And over time, if you have no APOR tables, you have no mortgage market, or at least an uncertain and economically damaging mess.

In the face of this, tough guy Vought blinked, and in so doing revealed why even the most John Galt-ian banker needs the government every now and again.

Georgetown Law professor Adam Levitin explained the stakes in a post late Monday night. Lenders would either not make loans at risk of coming in above APOR, or would raise rates on loans below APOR to compensate, costing borrowers potentially tens of thousands of dollars in financing. Home values could get skewed, and credit access could be cut for many borrowers. “In other words, shutting down the CFPB does not reduce regulation. It actually increases it because it results in the [APOR tables] being miscalibrated,” Levitin wrote.

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-02...tgage-markets/

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

NIH rate change hit with a TRO

could easily have been avoided by giving a few weeks notice and having a rationale for the change

another own goal here, handwaving seldom works in courtrooms

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration's move to drastically lower some of the funding that universities and research ins utions receive from medical and scientific grants.


U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley -- nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden -- issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the National Ins ute of Health from taking any steps to implement or enforce their rate change notice.


Judge Kelley ordered the NIH to issue a status report within 24 hours – then at bi-weekly intervals – to confirm “the regular disbursement and obligation of federal financial assistance funds.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/billio...y?id=118661569

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

"centralize ideological control over the federal agencies" and "wipe out left wing ideologies"

in other words, a purge

[SnakeBoy]

"centralize ideological control over the federal agencies" and "wipe out left wing ideologies"

in other words, a purge

[DarrinS]

"centralize ideological control over the federal agencies" and "wipe out left wing ideologies"

in other words, a purge

Yeah, get that out.

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah, get that out.

So the next Democrat can do the same to your ideology?

[Winehole23]

[SnakeBoy]

So the next Democrat can do the same to your ideology?

What would they purge?

[ChumpDumper]

What would they purge?

Your toxic ideology and anyone who espouses it.

[Winehole23]

Red states generally are more dependent on federal transfers, El0n/Trump are courting fiasco

Colorado's governor and both of the state's U.S. senators asked the director of the federal budget office Monday to unlock what they said was more than $570 million in federal funds that remained inaccessible to state groups after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to lift a sweeping funding freeze.

In a letter, Gov. Jared Polis, and U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper asked Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to ensure that the funds are unfrozen, citing a federal court ruling that put a pause on the administration's freeze.

"The consequences of this continued uncertainty are severe and could have a devastating effect on the programs and people this funding supports," the Democrats wrote. "Companies are considering staff furloughs. Employers in rural communities are rescinding job offers. Long-standing Colorado businesses, some with over 40 years of operation, now struggle to pay contractors working on facility expansions."

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/new...e5de45258.html

[Blake]

"centralize ideological control over the federal agencies" and "wipe out left wing ideologies"

in other words, a purge

Yeah, get that out.

You guys don't even know what you want to get rid of.

[Winehole23]

Red states generally are more dependent on federal transfers, El0n/Trump are courting fiasco

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/new...e5de45258.html

Oopsie, farm belt Republicans just figured out El0n's cuts are hitting their cons uents

*clean up*

Republicans Try to Save USAID Food Program


New GOP bill proposes moving oversight of the $1.8 billion program to the Agriculture Department

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...ogram-86751fc4

[Thread]

Your toxic ideology and anyone who espouses it.

That's why we can't ever let ya's get the guns.

[ChumpDumper]

Oopsie, farm belt Republicans just figured out El0n's cuts are hitting their cons uents

*clean up*

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...ogram-86751fc4

Impossible!

Elon and his racist kid squad know exactly what they're doing.

[Thread]

Impossible!

Elon and his racist kid squad know exactly what they're doing.

...AND are doing it!!!

[Winehole23]

Rep. Tom Cole (OK), the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, recently pretended he didn't know if appropriations were laws or not. Said he'd need to ask a cons utional lawyer.

[Winehole23]

Appropriations Clause

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

https://www.heritage.org/cons utio...iations-clause

[Winehole23]

A member of the Chickasaw Nation, Cole is one of four Native Americans in Congress who are enrolled tribal members. The others are fellow Oklahoma Republicans Markwayne Mullin (Cherokee) and Josh Brecheen (Choctaw), and Democrat Sharice Davids of Kansas (Ho‑Chunk). In 2022, Cole became the longest-serving Native American in the history of Congress.^[1][2]