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Trump's Second Term

we’ll see how fast and how bad the economy gets. this kind of disruption of order isn’t good. spending freezes, labor disruption, looming tariffs, none of that spells “make a major purchase” to anyone who ain’t an idiot.
 
dirtywick said:
we’ll see how fast and how bad the economy gets. this kind of disruption of order isn’t good. spending freezes, labor disruption, looming tariffs, none of that spells “make a major purchase” to anyone who ain’t an idiot.
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That still leaves more than half the electorate making major purchases.
 
As expected, a judge has issued a temporary block to Trump's ceasing of grants.
I think the issue is that the money was legislated by congress, and the Potus has no right to overrule conresionally mandated spending.
 
dudalb said:
As expected, a judge has issued a temporary block to Trump's ceasing of grants.
I think the issue is that the money was legislated by congress, and the Potus has no right to overrule conresionally mandated spending.
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Congress first approves an expenditure, then appropriates for it, then apportions it through the Office of Management and Budget. Once the apportioned funds are obligated, they must be delivered to the receiving agencies and contractors. The President doesn't get to exercise his policy preferences by impounding funds that have already been obligated.
 
JayUtah said:
Congress first approves an expenditure, then appropriates for it, then apportions it through the Office of Management and Budget. Once the apportioned funds are obligated, they must be delivered to the receiving agencies and contractors. The President doesn't get to exercise his policy preferences by impounding funds that have already been obligated.
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This is what it looks like when an authoritarian administration consolidates power.
 
so really, best case scenario is many of trump’s actions are held up or struck down in court while he blatantly frauds and cons taxpayers personally enriching himself and his allies and gets away with it all. worst case is dictatorship while he steals everything.
 
likely, there’s a bunch of looming federal employee job loss, the disruption to any projects involved in green energy, and anyone dealing in imports or exports is probably slowing spending and anticipating a rocky future right now. they’re not gearing up to expand.

uncertainty is not good for the economy
 
stanfr said:
So Jim Acosta finally quit CNN (live on air) which has Trump overjoyed. He is now one step closer to his goal of having complete state controlled media...
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Of course the MAGA morons are saying he was fired. Technically, they wanted to move him to the graveyard shift (why? He was one of the best reporters they had!) and he refused, so it was a roundabout way of getting him to go. I used to like most of the team there when the POSOTUS was active the first time around. Now a lot of them are gone (and a couple that I would like to see gone -- Dana Bash, what a vapid presence. To put it in the vernacular, "No rizz".)
 
Press Secretary Leavitt:
"This is a temporary pause and a freeze to ensure that all of the money going out from Washington DC is in a line with the president's agenda"
 
JayUtah said:
Yes. This is an undisguised, full-throated attempt to put the White House in ultimate control of federal expenditures and fiscal policy.
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Some comments by some GOPers in both houses indicate this is one issue they will push back on.
If you do it carefully, you can push back on some Trump things, without upsetting Trump voters.
 
dudalb said:
Economist saying the grant freeze could trigger a recession.
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Indeed, it is as bad as or worse than the perennial government shutdown threats that attend the Congressional budget deliberations.

Andy_Ross said:
Press Secretary Leavitt:
"This is a temporary pause and a freeze to ensure that all of the money going out from Washington DC is in a line with the president's agenda"
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That proposed discretion is not part of the President's constitutional authority. The Constitution clearly gives Congress the "power of the purse." When Congress passes the budget, it is a law. The President's duty is to "see that the laws be faithfully executed." He does not have the authority to adjust, add, or withhold funding based on his own policy preferences. Toward that end, there is a hedge of statute describing exactly what it means to faithfully execute the budgetary policy of Congress. Clearly the Trump administration is testing the boundaries of Presidential authority, and we may have only the Supreme Court to decide this.
 
EHocking said:
Turkey was changed to Türkiye at the request of the Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.
Whether you actually need the UN to approve the GoM name change I have no idea.
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That's not the same thing at all. That's just asking that the endonym be used as the exonym, like changing Ivory Coast to Côte d'Ivoire. What's being proposed here is changing from Ivory Coast to Rhinoceros Horn Coast.
 
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