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Some of the steps the administration has taken are going to be challenged in the courts,
Bill Dudley, the former Federal Reserve Bank of New York president, told MM
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission terminated about a dozen probationary employees this week as President Donald Trump continues his bid to shrink the federal workforce.”
Cuts hit the CFTC — Bloomberg’s Nicola M White and Lydia BeyoudIf the Supreme Court says ‘you can’t do this,’ then the ball will be back in the administration’s court to decide whether they’ll abide,
he saidMore than 130 of the eliminated workers held jobs that directly or indirectly support the air traffic controllers, facilities and technologies that the FAA uses to keep planes and their passengers safe,
unions reps tell POLITICO[T]he grant-approval system which the courts believe they have unfrozen remains at least mainly frozen.”
Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall reports on similar conundrums in the world of medical research grant fundingWithout our team ... pilots would quite literally be flying blind.”
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It's money that's taken away from, from things that are destructive to the country, that and from organizations that hate you, to you. That's awesome."
Elon Musk, speaking at CPAC on February 20, regarding the proposed DOGE dividends
Even with the potential savings of recent cuts, stimulus checks are an incredibly expensive endeavor for a government already deeply in debt and facing no pandemic-level emergency to undertake. I would expect legislators will hold out hope of new proposals like tax cuts and less restrictions on some government benefit programs as a way to steer eyes away from stimulus checks being the sole way to help Americans."
Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin, told Newsweek
Politically that would be great for us, you send everybody a check,
Johnson said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland this weekIf it's a $5,000 check, I've got some heartburn."
He said in an interview with CNBCWhat I think people are seeing now is that the idea that by tearing down this foreign aid structure or by taking away the money we were sending from Ukraine, the idea that that would make everybody's lives better doesn't seem to be happening, doesn't seem to be bearing fruit,
she noted
We are not in the business of giving out money, and honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you if you are unable to find a job because I am telling people, we are headed towards a recession,
she added
If you do the no-tax thing for people that are already, say, struggling and aren't really paying taxes in the first place, it doesn't really matter,
she addedWhat President Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people,
he concluded
It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon is not elected fail to understand how government works. So I’m glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson,
he continuedStephen Miller explains in very clear and concise terms to the ignorant news media how Donald Trump was elected to represent the will of the American people, and that it isn’t the place of unelected career bureaucrats to run their own agendas,
conservative journalist Ian Miles Cheong said
I love this clip of @StephenM calling the media out to their faces about their refusal to cover Biden’s mental incompetence. So good."
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Stephen Miller goes straight Schoolhouse Rock!"
Knox County Mayor Glen Jacobs exclaimed
He's right, you know,
National Review senior writer Dan McLaughlin remarkedYou’re tempting me to say very harsh things about some of our media friends,
he began