Trump using rare power to revoke expenditure with bipartisan approval to aid immigrant services
Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1bn in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives.
Trump’s office of management and budget described the funding cut as focused on “the most harmful government spending”.
Most of the cuts are focused on services for immigrants, including non-profits that serve refugees and unaccompanied minors accused of being in the country illegally. The administration says the funds are no longer necessary because illegal border crossings have diminished considerably.
It’s not fucking “rare and contested.” It’s just blatantly violating the Constitution. Congress has control of the budget, not the president. It’s his job to execute on the law, not to pick and choose which laws to follow.
I was gonna say, does this not constitute a line item veto?
If that were true then the president couldn’t cancel it 🤷♂️
The president does a lot of things that he isn’t allowed until the courts tell him to fuck off. Just wastes valuable judge time having to babysit his every move because he doesn’t know what he is doing.
You are wrong though. He or his handlers know exactly what they’re doing. This has been his strategy his entire life. Break the law, then tie up the ensuing suits in the courts so long that he still effectively gets away with it and/or it costs his opposition too much to continue.
He is proof positive that delayed justice is not justice at all.
If murder is illegal then why are you dead? Boom, checkmate.
I mean, if the authorities don’t arrest/charge then functionally yes. This demented old pedo has legit killed hundreds of thousands through inaction during Covid and killed millions globally by letting that dipshit Musk gut USAID. He’s a murderer on par with any other fascist but will he see consequences?
Well, yeah, murder or sexual abuse against minors is illegal, yet you see the rich and powerful engage in these things constantly without consequence.
The law is words on paper, enforcement is what makes law reality, otherwise it’s just a suggestion.
If you deny someone their life-saving medication you might go to jail for it. If a rich person does denies life-saving medication to someone because it makes them a few dollars more, they get praised for it.
They’ll sue, it’ll get overturned and the only losers are the taxpayers.
Sorry, is this your first visit to this timeline?
“rare and constested” does this apply in court if I rob a bank? Like is my claim on the money in the vault a “rare and contested” legal defence?
If you bought the judge and the jury, then yes. It’s legal.
Great news for when I finally become a billionaire!
Just gotta keep voting Republican and eventually everyone will be billionaires.
yea, they’ll tank the economy so hard $1billion will be the new $100.
Most of the cuts are focused on services for immigrants, including non-profits that serve refugees and unaccompanied minors accused of being in the country illegally
They’re literally doing the Ophan Crushing Machine!
Trump wants to provide them company himself
Bet that billion somehow ends up in trumps pocket.
But like I actually bet. someone bet me.
it’s already in his pocket
Sorry, the odds on that bet are so low, after the transaction fees you would be out money - so, just hand yourself a dollar and be done with it.
Sure, or some other project that will harm us.
They really should start clarifying, the people manipulating and controlling Trump did this, Trump is not smart enough to fight his was out of a paper bag
Correct your speech, citizen: Trump is not smart enough to America his way out of an American America.
America your America, America: Trump is America America to America his America out of an American America.
(Oops All Amercas!)
Ah, Susan Collins trying to get her name out there in a better way. Too late, Susan!
Her issue was Abortion, and she blew it. Unforgiveable. No half-assed attempt at morality is going to earn her a second chance. Besides, nobody in Maine cares about immigration, she was just grasping at the first straw she could.
What a chickenshit sane-washing headline. Shame on you, Guardian.
Genuine question. What headline would you have chosen?
Trump Derelicts Duty and Fails to Dispense Funds as Legally Appropriated
I desperately hope that a deathly illness happens to Trump. I’m so fucking tired of him.
I vote for Ebola, Marburg, or rabies. Those are some terrible ways to go.
Or spinal cancer. I know someone who had that. Killed himself when even opioidS stopped relieving the pain.
I’ve been hoping for a lightning strike on the golf course.
Make damn sure those evangelical Christian supporters see exactly what their God’s opinion of Trump was…
“A sYstEm oF cHEckS aND bALanCes”
And what will he do with the billion dollars?
Give it to Isreal.
#AmericaFirst
Rape and/or murder children. Not necessarily in that order.
Put it in his diaper
Ne wants so bad to be a king that the hasn’t even considered the possibility of ending up with his head chopped off.
That and the toxic grandpa who knows that everybody hates him and puts up with his sadistic bullshit because of the inheritance and is making sure to get a kick out of it.
This fucker is speed running civil war.
Probably so he he can funnel it to his family.
And nothing of consequence will be done.
And the cons have the gall to still be whining about “cancel culture”.
