| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Republican lawmakers are pushing back against sweeping cuts
| to the federal government launched by President Donald
| Trump and Elon Musk, as their downsizing crusade begins to
| hit GOP constituents.
| ...
<https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/14/doge-trump-omb-gop-00204435>
--bks
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLy2SaSQAtA>
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Although it's now on hold, The Trump Administration's move
| to stop foreign food aid shut off a market that farmers
| have relied on for 70 years has triggered a big Republican
| push to resurrect the "Food for Peace" program.
| ...
<https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5296876/republicans-push-to-resurrect-food-for-peace-amidst-efforts-to-dismantle-usaid>
--bks
Agriculture is the #1 defense industry.
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Although it's now on hold, The Trump Administration's move
| to stop foreign food aid shut off a market that farmers
| have relied on for 70 years has triggered a big Republican
| push to resurrect the "Food for Peace" program.
| ...
<https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5296876/republicans-push-to-resur rect-food-for-peace-amidst-efforts-to-dismantle-usaid>
--bks
Agriculture is the #1 defense industry.
On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:47:28 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Although it's now on hold, The Trump Administration's move
| to stop foreign food aid shut off a market that farmers
| have relied on for 70 years has triggered a big Republican
| push to resurrect the "Food for Peace" program.
| ...
<https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5296876/republicans-push-to-resurrect-food-for-peace-amidst-efforts-to-dismantle-usaid>
--bks
Agriculture is the #1 defense industry.
Why would we paying farmers in other countries?
Where would this stop?
On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:37:12 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
|
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Republican lawmakers are pushing back against sweeping cuts
| to the federal government launched by President Donald
| Trump and Elon Musk, as their downsizing crusade begins to
| hit GOP constituents.
| ... >><https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/14/doge-trump-omb-gop-00204435>
--bks
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLy2SaSQAtA>
Do you have anything against questioning the effectiveness and
staffing of any federal agency? If you do, you're clearly the
problem.
NoBody wrote:
On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:47:28 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Although it's now on hold, The Trump Administration's move
| to stop foreign food aid shut off a market that farmers
| have relied on for 70 years has triggered a big Republican
| push to resurrect the "Food for Peace" program.
| ...
<https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5296876/republicans-push-to-resurrect-food-for-peace-amidst-efforts-to-dismantle-usaid>
--bks
Agriculture is the #1 defense industry.
Why would we paying farmers in other countries?
Where would this stop?
D'oh!
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Trump Voters Splinter Over His Rapid Shake-Up of Washington
|
| Some core supporters love his no-holds-barred approach, but
| several swing voters are taken aback at his early moves
|
| Staci White said she voted for President Trump because she
| wanted lower prices and to stop fentanyl from coming into
| the U.S.
|
| Now, with widespread federal layoffs and expected cuts, she
| worries her family will lose their house if her partner is
| laid off from his government-adjacent job
| ...
<https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-voter-regrets-presidential-e lection-7b4fc43d?st=zk6sog>
--bks
The Last Major TV Factory in the U.S. Is
Shutting Down Because of President Trumps
Tariffs
Aug 8 2018
A South Carolina plant that assembles televisions using Chinese parts plans to shut down and lay off nearly all its employees because of new tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration, the company announced this week.
Element Electronics which describes itself as the only assembler of televisions in the U.S. plans to lay off 126 of its 134 permanent full-time employees and close the Winnsboro, S.C. plant on Oct. 5. Notably, there are still at least two smaller companies that continue to assemble speciality televisions in the U.S.
"The layoff and closure is a result of the new tariffs that were recently and unexpectedly imposed on many goods imported from China, including the key television components used in our assembly operations in Winnsboro," Carl Kennedy, Elements vice president of human resources, said in a letter to the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce on Monday.
https://time.com/5361394/tv-factory-closing-trump-tariffs/
Decent brand.
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Trump Voters Splinter Over His Rapid Shake-Up of Washington
|
| Some core supporters love his no-holds-barred approach, but
| several swing voters are taken aback at his early moves
|
| Staci White said she voted for President Trump because she
| wanted lower prices and to stop fentanyl from coming into
| the U.S.
|
| Now, with widespread federal layoffs and expected cuts, she
| worries her family will lose their house if her partner is
| laid off from his government-adjacent job
| ...
<https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-voter-regrets-presidential-election-7b4fc43d?st=zk6sog>
--bks
|
| "Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant. He wants to impose
| his freak experiments and play-act as God without any
| respect for the country's history, values, or traditions."
| Steve Bannon doesn't hold back when I meet him in the
| basement of his Washington townhouse.
|
| The triple-shirted architect of old-school Trumpian
| populism, briefly a White House advisor during Donald
| Trump's first term, has emerged as the counterpole to Elon
| Musk, whose ultra-libertarian agenda has come to dominate
| the President's second term. To Bannon, the billionaire X
| owner is more forceful and, perhaps, more dangerous than
| any figure on the Left. "Musk is the one with power at the
| moment," he says.
| ...
<https://unherd.com/2025/02/steve-bannon-is-ready-for-war/>
--bks
On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:47:28 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Although it's now on hold, The Trump Administration's move
| to stop foreign food aid shut off a market that farmers
| have relied on for 70 years has triggered a big Republican
| push to resurrect the "Food for Peace" program.
| ...
<https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5296876/republicans-push-to-resurrect-food-for-peace-amidst-efforts-to-dismantle-usaid>
--bks
Agriculture is the #1 defense industry.
Why would we paying farmers in other countries?
Where would this stop?
|
| "Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant. He wants to impose
| his freak experiments and play-act as God without any
| respect for the country's history, values, or traditions."
| Steve Bannon doesn't hold back when I meet him in the
| basement of his Washington townhouse.
|
| The triple-shirted architect of old-school Trumpian
| populism, briefly a White House advisor during Donald
| Trump's first term, has emerged as the counterpole to Elon
| Musk, whose ultra-libertarian agenda has come to dominate
| the President's second term. To Bannon, the billionaire X
| owner is more forceful and, perhaps, more dangerous than
| any figure on the Left. "Musk is the one with power at the
| moment," he says.
| ...
<https://unherd.com/2025/02/steve-bannon-is-ready-for-war/>
--bks
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
| Trump Voters Splinter Over His Rapid Shake-Up of Washington
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
| Trump Voters Splinter Over His Rapid Shake-Up of Washington
| After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump
| team for funds
|
| Republican senators are asking Cabinet secretaries and
| other Trump officials to let money flow back into their
| states.
| ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/19/trump-musk-senators-funding/>
| Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt urged the Trump
| administration to treat all types of energy production the
| same as it overhauls U.S. policy -- and to honor the clean
| energy contracts signed by the Biden administration.
<https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/02/politico-pro-q-a-oklahoma-gov-kevin-stitt-00204732>
| The senior Republican senator negotiating a deal to avoid a
| government shutdown in less than one month says the Trump
| administration might be breaking the law -- and flouting
| the U.S. Constitution.
| ... <https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/19/congress/susan-collins-elon-musk-warning-00204873>
Might!!???
NoBody wrote:
On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:47:28 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
|
| Although it's now on hold, The Trump Administration's move
| to stop foreign food aid shut off a market that farmers
| have relied on for 70 years has triggered a big Republican
| push to resurrect the "Food for Peace" program.
| ...
<https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5296876/republicans-push-to-resurrect-food-for-peace-amidst-efforts-to-dismantle-usaid>
--bks
Agriculture is the #1 defense industry.
Why would we paying farmers in other countries?
We aren't. Follow the link.
Where would this stop?
| Like many observers, I expected severe buyers' regret
| fairly early in the second Trump administration. After all,
| many Americans who voted for Trump did so because they
| believed he would bring down grocery prices. He was never
| going to be able to deliver on that promise and stopped
| talking about the subject as soon as the election was over;
| sooner or later, voters were going to notice.
|
| I did not, however, expect a MAGA civil war weeks before
| Trump had even taken office. But in retrospect I should
| have seen it coming.
| ...
<https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-is-already-eating-its-own-pass>
--bks
|
| The senior Republican senator negotiating a deal to avoid a
| government shutdown in less than one month says the Trump
| administration might be breaking the law -- and flouting
| the U.S. Constitution.
| ...
<https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/19/congress/susan-collins-elon-musk-warning-00204873>
--bks
| Trump's cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
| Trump Voters Splinter Over His Rapid Shake-Up of Washington
|
| After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump
| team for funds
|
| Republican senators are asking Cabinet secretaries and
| other Trump officials to let money flow back into their
| states.
| ...
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/19/trump-musk-senators-funding/>
|
| Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt urged the Trump
| administration to treat all types of energy production the
| same as it overhauls U.S. policy -- and to honor the clean
| energy contracts signed by the Biden administration.
| ...
<https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/02/politico-pro-q-a-oklahoma-gov-kevin-stitt-00204732>
--bks
|
| Fox News host Jesse Watters made an on-air plea that the
| Trump administration be "less callous" when implementing
| when laying off federal employees after a military veteran
| friend was "DOGE'd" in Elon Musk's Pentagon cuts.
| ...
<https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jesse-watters-makes-on-air-plea-to-trump-for-veteran-friend-who-got-doged-in-pentagon-cuts/>
--bks
Cruelty is the point, Jesse.
| Fox News host Jesse Watters made an on-air plea that the
| Trump administration be "less callous" when implementing
| when laying off federal employees after a military veteran
| friend was "DOGE'd" in Elon Musk's Pentagon cuts.
| The private GOP panic over the slash-and-burn DOGE firings
| I thought
| that someone with his business acumen would have come in
| with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of
| coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people's
| lives for no reason."
| Fox News host Jesse Watters made an on-air plea that the
| Trump administration be "less callous" when implementing
| when laying off federal employees after a military veteran
| friend was "DOGE'd" in Elon Musk's Pentagon cuts.
| ...
| It turns out that military veterans are disproportionately
| represented among the DOGE cuts, because they
| disproportionately work in federal jobs.
| ...
<https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-firings-hitting-gop/>
--bks
|
| The private GOP panic over the slash-and-burn DOGE firings
|
| A growing number of congressional Republicans are
| desperately trying to back-channel with White House
| officials as President Donald Trump's Department of
| Government Efficiency ramps up its slash-and-burn firings
| of federal workers.
| ...
<https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/gop-lawmaker-doge-cut-panic-00205282>
--bks
| The private GOP panic over the slash-and-burn DOGE firings
| ...
| One of the laid off IRS employees, Robert McCabe, told
| NBC10 he went into work on Thursday and had issues logging
| in. He and his coworker sat around and waited for
| instructions. He then received the layoff letter shortly
| before 11:30 a.m. McCabe said he had been a supporter of
| President Trump prior to the layoff.
|
| "You know when he talks about government waste and all
| that, yes, I'm behind it," McCabe said. "I believe there is
| a lot of stuff in the government that needs fixing. And
| that's part of the reason why I actually wanted to work for
| the government, actually. To help change. Help change the
| things that are wrong in the world, you know? I thought
| that someone with his business acumen would have come in
| with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of
| coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people's
| lives for no reason."
| ...
<https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-irs-layoffs-firings-union-president-trump/4114738/>
--bks
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:48:12 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
|
| The private GOP panic over the slash-and-burn DOGE firings
|
| A growing number of congressional Republicans are
| desperately trying to back-channel with White House
| officials as President Donald Trump's Department of
| Government Efficiency ramps up its slash-and-burn firings
| of federal workers.
| ... >><https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/gop-lawmaker-doge-cut-panic-00205282>
--bks
Lots and lots of "unnamed sources" = BS.
| Elon Musk's Slash-and-Burn Tactics Are Beginning to Unnerve
| Republicans
| Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) signaled Thursday that President
| Trump's threat to levy tariffs on key trading partners of
| the U.S. is hurting his constituents, saying "when we start
| losing, you back off."
|
| "Almost every industry in Kentucky has come to me and said,
| 'It will hurt our industry and push up prices of homes,
| cars,' and so, I'm going to continue to argue against
| tariffs," Paul said late Thursday in an interview with CNN.
| ... <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5182114-rand-paul-donald-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico/>
| Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for
| weeks, ever since his team effectively shuttered an entire
| agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio's control: the
| United States Agency for International Development.
| Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for
| weeks, ever since his team effectively shuttered an entire
| agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio's control: the
| United States Agency for International Development.
|
| The tolerance for Elon Musk inside of the White House is
| wearing thin, as they deal with the fallout of his
| calamitous interview with Larry Kudlow when he touched the
| third rail - entitlements. Even though Trump's staffers are
| terrified of Musk, they know that if you try to cut Social
| Security, Medicare and Medicaid, you die, politically
| speaking.
|
| "It's no longer simmering resistance, people are fucking
| furious," said a source with knowledge of the situation.
|
| "Medicaid is not just for Black people in the ghetto, these
| are our voters," said a Republican operative close to the
| White House.
| ...
<https://www.tarapalmeri.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-west-wing>
--bks
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:00:06 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
| Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for
| weeks, ever since his team effectively shuttered an entire
| agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio's control: the
| United States Agency for International Development.
|
| The tolerance for Elon Musk inside of the White House is
| wearing thin, as they deal with the fallout of his
| calamitous interview with Larry Kudlow when he touched the
| third rail - entitlements. Even though Trump's staffers are
| terrified of Musk, they know that if you try to cut Social
| Security, Medicare and Medicaid, you die, politically
| speaking.
|
| "It's no longer simmering resistance, people are fucking
| furious," said a source with knowledge of the situation.
|
| "Medicaid is not just for Black people in the ghetto, these
| are our voters," said a Republican operative close to the
| White House.
| ...
<https://www.tarapalmeri.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-west-wing>
--bks
Where has Musk said anything about cutting these programs?
|
| Elon Musk threatens Pentagon leakers after NYT report on
| secret China war briefing
|
| "They will be found," warns U.S. President Donald Trump's
| billionaire adviser as White House lashes out at the media.
| ...
<https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-threatens-pentagon-leakers-n ew-york-times-briefing-china-war/>
|
| The top two Republican lawmakers who lead the Pentagon's
| oversight committees in the U.S. Congress issued a rare,
| joint statement on Wednesday expressing alarm about a
| potential shake-up in U.S. military commands by the Trump
| administration.
| ...
<https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-republican-lawmakers-voice-alarm-o ver-possible-pentagon-command-shake-up-2025-03-19/>
--bks
I feel safer already.
| Elon Musk threatens Pentagon leakers after NYT report on
| secret China war briefing
|
| "They will be found," warns U.S. President Donald Trump's
| billionaire adviser as White House lashes out at the media.
| ... <https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-threatens-pentagon-leakers-new-york-times-briefing-china-war/>
| The top two Republican lawmakers who lead the Pentagon's
| oversight committees in the U.S. Congress issued a rare,
| joint statement on Wednesday expressing alarm about a
| potential shake-up in U.S. military commands by the Trump
| administration.
| ... <https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-republican-lawmakers-voice-alarm-over-possible-pentagon-command-shake-up-2025-03-19/>
--bks
I feel safer already.
| Elon Musk's frustrations with White House trade policy
| became public Saturday when he called for a vast free trade
| zone -- and took aim at fellow White House advisor Peter
| Navarro over Donald Trump's new tariffs plans.
| Elon Musk's frustrations with White House trade policy
| became public Saturday when he called for a vast free trade
| zone -- and took aim at fellow White House advisor Peter
| Navarro over Donald Trump's new tariffs plans.
| Trump adviser Navarro dismisses Musk as 'car assembler'
| after tariff comments
|
| Elon Musk has accused one of President Donald Trump's top
| aides of committing a federal crime.
|
| Weeks after the epic breakup between the president and the
| world's richest man, Musk has continued to snipe at Sergio
| Gor, the director of the presidential personnel office, who
| he believes fueled his falling out with Trump.
| ...
<https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-accuses-trump-aide-sergio-gor-of-federal-crime-as-feud-explodes/>
--bks
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