Bashear and Moore? I'm with it.
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Bashear and Moore? I'm with it.
Possibly but first he's opening/ removing public parks from federal exclusions on fracking, logging, oil drilling... etc
Article is a little dated (Nov 2024), but info on his plans is pretty clear
Trump has ambitious plans for federal land use. This is why he may not be able to accomplish them all.
President-elect Donald Trump has ambitious goals for utilizing U.S. federal lands for extraction of oil and other resources.
Having a BHM event at the WH while systematically removing anything relating to Black's and our History is next level diabolical.
This mfkr has a thing with kids in 3's.... his ex-wife had 6 total, then Grimes had 3 and the exec at Neuralink had 3 as well......
Ashley may not have thought this one through, her book deal is through BRAVE Books, an extremely Conservative Christian imprint...... being a womb for hire for a serial bastard maker doesn't quite fit into their ideologies.
Put the dude on ignore. I came off ignore a few times and there is nothing worth of value he adds to this thread. Sort of like king whatever in the bball thread going on and on about LeBron.
Hey @HNIC and @Lexx Diamond if you bros want to make money for the board? Do an ebook between 5 and 10 dollars going over the history of the board and the back and forth. Throw it in when we get new subscribers. People that are lifetime members get a discount or get it for free? We can also do a legend of all the usernames that different people have used.
@playahaitian @TEN @largebillsonlyplease @DJ @tallblacknyc @@DC_DUDE @4 Dimensional
Always remember the Healthcare industry makes shit move in DC
That’s why I laugh when people post shit about AIPAC. Yeah they spend money, but healthcare lobbyists spent $700 million
Where to start........
This is just so damn false..... also it wasn't just 93 mail trucks total, as in thats it. No, that's just how many have been produced (read , completed) as of years end due to various delays.... building materials, staffing, design delays, testing and retesting said designs...
But a lot of that went into building the damn factory to even make the mail trucks.
United has hundreds of millions to spend on lobbying and C Suite bonuses...... off the backs of denying care for 30% it's PAYING customers
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Is There a Constitutional Crisis?
Trump’s actions are aggressive, but they aren’t an executive coup.
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Free Expression: Judging by Democrats' reaction at USAID, the Treasury and the Department of Education, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency looks less DOGE and more DOGA, a Department of Government Accountability. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP/Jemal Countess/Getty Images
Well, that was fast. The same people who predicted Donald Trump would be a dictator now say a “constitutional crisis” has already arrived, barely three weeks into his Presidency. They’re overwrought as usual, and readers may appreciate a less apocalyptic breakdown about Mr. Trump’s actions and whether they do or don’t breach the normal checks and balances.
Mr. Trump’s domestic-policy decisions so far strike us as falling into three categories. Most rest on strong legal ground. Some are legally debatable and could go either way in court. In still others Mr. Trump appears to be breaking current law deliberately to tee up cases that will go to the Supreme Court to restore what he considers to be constitutional norms. None of these is a constitutional crisis.
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The first category includes the Administration’s decision to pause discretionary spending to ensure it complies with the President’s priorities. Democratic state Attorneys General say this is illegal, and Judge John McConnell on Monday agreed. The Administration is appealing, and judges can’t force a President to spend money that Congress has left to his discretion.
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Most of these spending programs don’t include concrete disbursement deadlines. If Mr. Trump is violating the law, so was the Biden Administration, which delayed disbursing grants under the 2021 infrastructure bill and 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to review applications and attach conditions. What Mr. Trump is doing is no different.
Government unions are challenging Mr. Trump’s buyout offers for federal workers on grounds that Congress hasn’t funded them, but this doesn’t make them illegal per se. If Mr. Trump later doesn’t pay these workers, they could sue in federal claims court.
Unions are also challenging Mr. Trump’s Schedule F reform, which removes civil-service protections for some high-ranking career employees. Here, too, Mr. Trump is on strong legal ground. The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 exempts positions “determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character.”
Mr. Trump has expanded these exempt positions to employees who supervise investigations, develop regulations and exercise power under an agency’s discretion. Congress has expanded the discretion of agencies such that federal workers now boast far more power than they did 50 years ago. A President should be able to hold them accountable for performance to ensure laws are faithfully executed.
A second category are decisions on more debatable legal ground, such as effectively dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and U.S. Agency for International Development. Congress established these agencies and it would have to act to eliminate them. Less clear is whether a President can order employees to cease doing their jobs.
Harvard law professor Hal Scott recently argued in these pages that the CFPB is operating illegally because Congress funded the agency with earnings from the Federal Reserve. Because the Fed has incurred losses since September 2022, Mr. Scott says the bureau should close unless Congress appropriates money for it. This argument is plausible.
As for USAID, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the Administration’s plans to wind down its operations to have more time to consider the merits. Many Administration actions raise novel legal questions. This bucket also includes whether employees with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency can obtain access to Treasury payment systems.
Mr. Trump is stretching laws to see what he can get away with, but so have other recent Presidents. Barack Obama touted his pen-and-a-phone strategy of ruling by decree. “So sue me,” he taunted House Republicans. The Supreme Court blocked his Clean Power Plan and DAPA, which protected millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Joe Biden exceeded his power by canceling student loans, mandating vaccines and banning evictions, among other overreaches. After the Supreme Court blocked his first loan write-off, he declared “that didn’t stop me” and used other illegal means. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals last year rebuked his Administration for turning a lower-court injunction on his SAVE plan into a “nullity.”
The third category of Trump actions are clear violations of current law with a goal of inviting legal challenges to get to the Supreme Court. This includes his order barring birthright citizenship, and another dismissing a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. Trump believes he’ll win on both issues because he thinks previous Supreme Court rulings were wrongly decided.
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Mr. Trump may be wrong, but there is no constitutional crisis as the cases make their way through the courts. Liberals are flogging a recent tweet by JD Vance that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” But even liberal judges agree with this in principle as they interpret the proper separation of constitutional powers.
The real crisis would come if Mr. Trump defies a Supreme Court ruling. If that happens, and it could, the left may wish it hadn’t squandered its credibility by crying wolf so often about crises that didn’t exist. Readers can relax in the meantime.
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Full Remarks: Raskin Condemns President Trump and Elon Musk’s “Illegal” and “Unconstitutional” Abolition of USAID at Press Conference Outside the Agency
February 3, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), alongside a delegation of congressional Democrats, delivered remarks to members of the media outside the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters in D.C. amidst attempts by President Trump and Elon Musk to shut down the nation’s top humanitarian aid agency.Below are Congressman Raskin’s full remarks, as delivered, at the press conference.
“Elon Musk, you didn’t create USAID—the United States Congress did, for the American people.
“And just like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he doesn’t have the power to destroy it. And who’s going to stop him? We are. We’re going to stop him.
“Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payment systems of the United States Department of Treasury, but you don’t control the money of the American people. The United States Congress does that—under Article I of the Constitution.
“And just like the president, who was elected to something, cannot impound the money of the people, we don’t have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk. And that’s going to become real clear.
“This illegal, unconstitutional interference with congressional power is threatening lives all over the world. I’m hearing from my constituents who work for USAID, and USAID contractors, in Maryland, in Washington, all over the world.
“And they’re telling us that this is a killer: in terms of their cutoff of HIV and AIDS preemption.
“It’s a killer: in terms of anti-malarial education.
“It’s a killer: in terms of all of the efforts to shut down global viruses.
“Now, I don’t know what Elon Musk’s intentions are. I don’t know what Elon Musk’s motivations are. I don’t know what his purposes are—but they’ve got nothing to do with what has been lawfully adopted by the people of the United States of America, through the Congress of the United States. We’re going to defend USAID all the way.
“And I want to say, finally, this: I’ve heard some murmurings in support of this outrageous, scandalous, illegal maneuver that they just need some time to do some studies for evaluations. Well, I’ve heard from multiple constituents working at USAID that they have removed all evaluations from the USAID website and they have shut down—immediately, as of right now—all of the evaluations taking place, of USAID efforts all over the world.
“This has nothing to do with evaluation. This is about termination and obliteration of the major foreign aid programs of the United States of America, all of which together total less than $40 billion. We have a Pentagon budget of $900 billion. The Pentagon budget is where the defense contractor Elon Musk, who became the richest man in the world off of our money, collects his payments from. And now he’s trying to shut down USAID.
“We’re not going to allow this to happen. It will not stand.”
Yup and Big PHARM is probably spending even more with lobbyist....
Steele talking straight truth, black man ain't sugar coating shit.
So Michale Steele, the Republican, is more black than Obama ever was.
And people still promote the DNC as the “party of the black man”
No, Chelsea Clinton didn't receive $84M from USAID
Posts shared online connected the rumor to her work for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
www.snopes.com
...was thinking the same
I had to go do my own research on that Chelsea Clinton post cuz dude's "source" was some roid-raging nut job on IG. Mofos are lame af.
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Who said he was more black than Obama?So Michale Steele, the Republican, is more black than Obama ever was.
And people still promote the DNC as the “party of the black man”
No one.