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Trump's Second Term

ZiprHead said:
There is no money budgeted anywhere to pay these buyouts. Is Elon going to pay them?
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The money ostensibly comes from the salaries those workers would have been paid had they continued in their employment. You can't lawfully give it out as a lump sum because it hasn't been apportioned that way. You have to pay it out over time, which then puts those workers in legal limbo. Are they still employees during that time? Are they contractors?

The rights of federal workers are currently protected by law. The President doesn't get to ignore that law, but he appears to want to. And the only pseudo-legal way to get around that would be to press the unitary executive theory and hope a court buys it. This would effectively give the U.S. President more direct and personal control over a 21st century, first-world government workforce than actual kings.

But the bigger legal problem from the "theory of government" perspective is that Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose. It is unlawful for agencies to use that money for another purpose. If you appropriate money for a person to be, say, a park ranger, it's arguably unlawful to pay that person not to be a park ranger.

The biggest legal problem in the practical sense is that as lawyers start looking at the fine print it becomes increasingly possible that these are unenforceable agreements. If the Trump administration decides not to pay these "deferred" workers, they may not have a cause of action in court to get the money. This then becomes a ploy to get all the workers to voluntarily quit and thereby absolve the government of their responsibility as an employer.
 
Andy_Ross said:
US President Donald Trump's proposal to resettle Gaza's population would only be temporary, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.

Trump's proposal was not "hostile", but a "generous move", showing "the willingness of the United States to become responsible for the reconstruction of that area".

He said the idea was for Gazans to leave the territory for an "interim" period while debris was cleared and reconstruction took place.

Karoline Leavitt told journalists at the White House on Wednesday that the president was committed to rebuilding Gaza and "temporarily" relocating its residents during the process.

She also said the president had not committed to putting "boots on the ground" in the territory but declined to rule out the use of US troops in Gaza.

Trump said the displacement would be permanent.

www.bbc.co.uk

Trump says Israel will hand over Gaza to US after fighting ends

The president reiterates that the idea would mean resettling Palestinians, and that no US soldiers would be needed.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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This is going to really upset the Trump supporters in the USAID thread who were crowing about Trump cutting government spending.

Haha just kidding. They don’t care.
 
On his plans for Gaza


Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting.
The Palestinians, people like Chuck Schumer, would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region. They would actually have a chance to be happy, safe, and free.
The U.S., working with great development teams from all over the World, would slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth.
No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed! Stability for the region would reign!!!
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jt512 said:
Absolutely! It practically goes without saying that the rights of a small number of trans women supersede the rights of biological females!

Liberals Outraged As Trump Says Men Can't Punch Women In The Face For Sport

You're right! It was only 900 medals according to the United Nations. That's almost four times better!

Female Athletes Lost Almost 900 Medals to Trans-Identifying Men Worldwide, U.N. Report Finds
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Votes for a sex abuser and then with a straight face pretends to care about protecting women.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Donald on USAID corruption and the payments for the subscription to the Politico news service over the years.
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Yes, indeed maybe we should look at what other news outlets are being subscribed to on the public dime. No, USAID wasn't subsidizing Politico; it was just subscribing to it, along with other government agencies and along with other news sources. How about the Wall Street Journal? I don't agree with them much, but I have no problem with tax money being spent to put WSJ in the hands of government workers who might do their jobs better for having read it. Who pays for the Fox News cable subscription so that the President can sit in the office and watch it all day?

This is why it matters who does "audits" in the real world. If your auditor is motivated by animus to accuse you of fraud, it won't be surprising when they discover "evidence" of fraud.
 
Applying the Law of Conservative Projection gives us an admission they will be taking that money for themselves and paying off friendly media. They'll spend a fraction of what they steal on programs that will superficially look like foreign relief and get praised from right-wing media for "actually solving problems with their own money".
 
JayUtah said:
The biggest legal problem in the practical sense is that as lawyers start looking at the fine print it becomes increasingly possible that these are unenforceable agreements. If the Trump administration decides not to pay these "deferred" workers, they may not have a cause of action in court to get the money. This then becomes a ploy to get all the workers to voluntarily quit and thereby absolve the government of their responsibility as an employer.
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The buyout requires employees to waive their rights to take any future legal action against the govt. regarding their employment, so it's possible that the employees would have no legal recourse if the govt. decides not to pay them.
 
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It's not a Christian Taliban at all. Nope. Sure it's not.

Trump reveals executive order requiring Pam Bondi to prosecute ‘anti-Christian bias'

President Donald Trump revealed on Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast an executive order instructing Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek out and prosecute "anti-Christian bias."

"To confront such weaponization and religious persecution, today I'm signing an executive order to make our Attorney General, who's a great person — she's going to be a great Attorney General — Pam Bondi the head of a task force, brand new, to eradicate anti-Christian bias," Trump said. "About time, right? Anti-Christian bias. Yeah, never heard of that one before, right?"

"So many times you hear, but you don't hear the anti-Christian bias," he continued. "The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible."

Trump suggested the FBI and IRS were "terrible" for targeting Christians.

"In addition, the task force will work to fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide," he added. "You've never had that before, but this is a very powerful document I'm signing."

"You get it now. First time you've had it. If we don't have religious liberty, then we don't have a free country. We probably don't even have a country."
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Immediately, all of the world's irony meters exploded.
 
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "The water comes down from the northwest parts of Canada, I guess, but the Pacific Northwest. And it comes down by millions and millions of barrels a day and uh, I opened it up. It wasn't that easy to do. But I opened it up and it's pouring down."
 
"Remember in 2016, that was a whole big part of my campaign -- 'you're gonna say Merry Christmas.' Well, now they do it again. I don't know if you've been watching, but we got rid of woke over the last 2 weeks. Woke is gonezo."
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "The water comes down from the northwest parts of Canada, I guess, but the Pacific Northwest. And it comes down by millions and millions of barrels a day and uh, I opened it up. It wasn't that easy to do. But I opened it up and it's pouring down."
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"He blessesd the rains down in Ameeerica..."
 
Norman Alexander said:
I can read. Perhaps you should not mistate what that report was about.
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If you actually read the article (which I'm pretty sure you didn't) and claim that I misrepresented it, then you have just admitted to be incapable of comprehending what you read.
 
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