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lots of spending exempted from normal review this year
All lip service
Sounds about right
lots of spending exempted from normal review this year
arbitrary and capricious government and impoundment are Trump signatures
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...nding-43773351
this runs afoul of the Antideficiency Act, POTUS isn't supposed to be able to spend money all by himself, nor can he solicit private companies for money to go around Congress
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...icopter-issue/Trump begins construction of unannounced White House helipad
The project, funded with a Lockheed Martin donation, is intended to resolve a years-long problem with the new Marine One helicopters: They run the risk of scorching the White House’s grass.
Trump 2.0 disdains public notice and comment of intended bureaucratic changes
arbitrary and capricious all the way
https://bsky.app/profile/gabrielmalo.../3mowe2kmjam27One of the corrupt features of this administration is that it could, if it wanted, make regulatory changes ... through the normal notice-and-comment process under the APA.
Partisan disaster relief, not for the first time
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...tates-00989418President Donald Trump denied disaster aid to four Democratic-led states in a move that is raising new questions about whether he’s injecting political motivations into emergency management decisions.
Trump on Friday rejected $227 million in aid requests from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island for help recovering from a major snowstorm in February. Two days earlier, Trump approved Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster aid for six Republican-led states, while extolling the political virtues of GOP politicians and candidates in the states.
Trump sics FBI on NYT for reporting he didn't like
The White House directed Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, to oversee a leak investigation into reporting by The New York Times about security issues with the new Air Force One, leading to a flurry of subpoenas to several Times reporters Friday night, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Mr. Patel scuttled a planned trip to Chicago and spent roughly eight hours at the White House on Friday, running the investigation from there rather than F.B.I. headquarters — a major departure from historical practice. Mr. Patel also briefed senior administration officials on the investigation, two people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal discussions.
The White House’s deep involvement in the case came after officials said that President Trump was enraged about the coverage of the Qatari-donated plane, which The Times reported Thursday lacks the same defensive countermeasures of the previous Air Force One.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...core-ios-shareMr. Patel’s role in the investigation, in close coordination with top administration officials, reflects a further dismantling of the wall that had separated the White House and the F.B.I. in previous administrations. The government’s effort to immediately seek information from journalists, when such cases are typically centered first on identifying potential internal wrongdoing by officials, comes as the Trump administration has intensified pressure on news organizations.
subtext: Trump is big mad he had to ditch his deluxe bribery jet
Mr. Trump has basked in the luxury of the new plane, which is more than a decade old but has the kind of opulent furnishings the president prefers. He has repeatedly described the Qatari jet as cost free to the United States. But in reality, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were spent to upgrade its security systems. Officials have said that he plans to take the plane with him as a donation to his presidential library when he leaves office.While Mr. Trump has said the Qatari plane was upgraded with the necessary security “bells and whistles,” The Times reported on Thursday that it lacks the defensive countermeasures that were security features of the old model, including its advanced antimissile capabilities.
Trump has gone from unlawful attempts to deny permission to wind energy projects, to heavy bribes with public money
Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation.
Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...6172.106.0.pdf
But perhaps the most startling misstatement advanced by Plaintiffs is their characterization of this case as “ordinary.” (DE 89 at 9). The Parties here are not private actors to a mine-run dispute, recounting their proficiency in the art of the deal they negotiated. Lead Plaintiff and Defendants are public servants—the pinnacle of the Executive Branch—sworn to uphold the law, faithfully perform the duties of their office, and protect the interests of the American public. The issue before the Court is whether, instead, they ignored ethical norms, court rules, and legal authority to manipulate the judicial process. The issue is whether they did so to gild their efforts to gain unprecedented access to the public fisc with the patina of legitimacy. There is nothing “ordinary” about this case; it is the very definition of sui generis.
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Trump tried to steal $2B from the USA
Trump and everyone who tried to help him do it should be impeached, removed and prosecuted
lol Trump is attacking them again
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...smid=url-share
(once you identify the sheep, remember to shear them every year)
Todd Blanche btw vowed to revive the Comstock Act
Trump is coming after mifepristone
POTUS directing IRS to start or cease audits is impeachable all by itself, firing the official who warned against breaking the law probably is too
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/...violating-law/Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies has been ousted after he reportedly warned that the Trump administration was potentially violating a law prohibiting White House officials from intervening in IRS audits, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Kies also serves as acting chief counsel of the IRS. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Journal said Kies will be exiting in the coming weeks. The report said:
Kies at times clashed behind the scenes with White House officials, the people said. That included a recent meeting in which he contended that a potential White House request would violate Section 7217 of the Internal Revenue Code, one of the people said. That law prohibits the president, vice president, White House staff and certain agency heads from directly or indirectly requesting that the IRS conduct or terminate an audit or investigation of any particular taxpayer.Section 7217 of the IRS code deems it “unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.”
Trump shook down media companies for 10s of millions of dollars in 2025, promising the money would go to his presidential library
Nobody will say where the money went
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-librar...mocrats-letterLast September, the original recipient of the settlement payments, the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund Inc., was administratively dissolved by Florida’s Department of State after it failed to file a mandatory annual report.
In May 2025, a second en y, the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, Inc., was incorporated in Florida with nearly an identical mission, but whether it received the settlement money has not been publicly do ented. (In an April letter to Trump, the lawmakers directly questioned why two en ies with the same purpose had been created, and why the foundation was “preferred instead of the fund.”)
The lawmakers wrote to executives at the four companies in March to ask what happened to their money after the original fund’s dissolution. According to the letter, the companies indicated they had no information they were willing to share publicly about where most of the settlement money had gone.
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Taylor Farms pleads for special treatment after sickening hundreds with infected produce
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/h...smid=url-share
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