Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Orders Pause in All Federal Grants and Loans
This is a gutting of the scientific research establishment which has created much of American prosperity since World War II, when the US used the promise of survival and stable funding to lure academics from Germany.
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Further confusing the situation, it is uncertain that President Trump has the authority to unilaterally halt government funds allocated by Congress. Under Constitutional separation of powers, Congress passes spending bills, and the president executes the law as it is written.
Get fucked NYT this waffling fucking language is what enables this. It is certain he doesn't have the authority, and not being able to say so is allowing Trump to dictate the terms of how our fucking government works.
who's gonna stop him?
this congress?
this scotus?
That's completely missing the point. The point is the press has been talking like this since 2015. They have given him every avenue to just pretend this is how things work. It has only gotten to this point due to this kind of waffling bullshit not willing to call a spade a spade.
It's not about the fact that no one is going to stop him, we haven't even had a press that's been willing to point out that he doesn't have these powers for almost ten fucking years now.
Because guess who owns the press.
C Montgomery Burns
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Good news: People are starting to become aware of the class war that has been going on for the past 50 years.
Bad news: We lost that class war.
You may be underestimating the amount of the US economy directly or indirectly impacted by a freeze like this. This is a big deal not just because it's usurping powers, but for simple economic reasons. Lots of rich people and Republican representatives that can't be too happy about this. They want MAGA nonsense to be distracting people so they can get big fat tax cuts, not actually be hurting their business interests.
hi
I mean, maybe when they stop getting paid and the lights at the government buildings get turned off?
The milquetoast whitewashing of Trump's transgressions are really all itll take for him to be successful in destroying this country. If our media apparatuses fail to mobilize us, we'll be an easy herd to thin.
The parallels to our Media and the media of Germany before Hitler took over is frighteningly similar.
The parallels to our Media and the media of Germany before Hitler took over is frighteningly similar.
It's the Faithful Execution Clause (Article 2, Section 3, Clause 5) and he's absolutely violating it.
What's the remedy though? Likely a Russian-ectomy from the GOP to actually stand up to him. Even if SCOTUS rules against Trump they have no method of enforcement. I wonder if SCOTUS should have any kind of power to impeach or even expell a President (high bar, maybe unanimous decision).
Get fucked NYT this waffling fucking language is what enables this. It is certain he doesn’t have the authority, and not being able to say so is allowing Trump to dictate the terms of how our fucking government works.
Biden could have acted like this too. He would have been shot down by the courts, but there would be precedent so that trump couldn't.