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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel Bitecofer: The OMB total federal freeze disaster is the most incompetent thing any administration has ever done
to itself.https://bsky.app/profile/rachelbitecofer.bsky.social/post/3lgvkr5bfjk2u
Lovie777
(15,943 posts)Psychos running the country from executive branch , congress, judicial, states, etc.
I saw the headline from a German paper and could not agree more.
Psycho ll
Republican Party - Psychoville USA
RockRaven
(16,721 posts)... so far.
Hugin
(35,214 posts)I apologize. I couldnt resist saying that.
lame54
(37,355 posts)ScratchCat
(2,529 posts)It was all Stephen Miller's idea. It didn't take 24 hours for word to get back to Trump that taking billions of dollars away from the economy would cause an untold number of rich Trump voters to lose their government gravy train and more importantly crash the stock market in record time.
Everything you are seeing is distraction for Putin. Within weeks, expect war crimes in Ukraine and an invasion of another sovereign country.
LetMyPeopleVote
(157,107 posts)On the one hand, Team Trump is launching legally dubious power grabs and wreaking havoc. On the other hand, these guys have no idea what theyre doing.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lgv4ypo7t22y
Eight years to the day later, he did it again with an ugly and poorly thought-out spending freeze.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/chaotic-freeze-gambit-trump-white-house-shows-incompetence-rcna189776
With just minutes remaining before the freeze was scheduled to take effect, U.S. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan agreed to halt the process. NBC News reported:
A federal district judge on Tuesday granted an administrative stay in a case challenging the Trump administrations planned freeze of federal aid, pausing the plan for a week and setting a hearing for further arguments Monday morning. The order applies only to the pause of disbursements in open grants, Judge Loren AliKhan said. And it doesnt get into the legality of the freeze; instead, it gives her time to hear more fleshed-out arguments from a coalition of nonprofit groups about why she should issue a temporary restraining order that could block the freeze for an additional two weeks.
......It began with a terribly written memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which The New York Times Jamelle Bouie accurately described as delusional. White House officials spent much of the day insisting that it was perfectly clear, and news organizations were to blame for any confusion, but many of those same White House officials struggled badly to answer specific questions about the details of the policy most notably related to the impact on Medicaid beneficiaries. (Ill check back on that, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at her first briefing.).....
In case that werent quite enough, the White House also spent much of the day defending the freeze by referencing the Green New Deal, which is a broad progressive agenda that, in reality, never actually passed and therefore cant be defunded.
The resulting image was unsettling. On the one hand, the president, his political operation and his policy team are engaged in ugly and legally dubious power grabs, wreaking havoc as part of a radical scheme to transform the American system.
On the other hand, these guys still dont know what theyre doing. As The Washington Posts Dana Milbank summarized in his latest column, In just eight days on the job, Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the federal government, and he and his aides apparently couldnt be bothered to give any thought to the damage and chaos that would ensue.
TFG is a very stupid person. His staff is just as incompetent as the idiots who tried to do a Muslim ban 8 years ago