Saturday, March 8, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
A few GOP senators are not happy with Trump on Ukraine
Republicans press Trump to resume military, intelligence aid to Ukraine
... Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) ...
... Susan Collins (R-Maine) ...
... One Republican senator who requested anonymity called the threat to deport thousands of Ukrainian refugees excessively “punitive.” ...
... Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, said he doesn’t support the decision to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine. “I disagree with it,” he said. ...
Republican Bill Huizenga (MI-4) is pissed off by all the people calling his office to complain lol, doubts all the in-coming is legitimate
Michigan Republican congressman would prefer it if people stopped calling his office
... he wants constituents to stop calling his office, claiming that inquires shared directly on his website would “legitimize” who is from his district. ...
Meanwhile in the real world full time employment as a percentage of population fell for a seventh consecutive month in Feb 2025 to 48.88% from 50.26% in July 2024
That's the worst February reading since 47.51% in Feb 2021.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Marco Rubio changes his forehead for Ash Wednesday
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A Russian "Grad" rocket launcher crosses the Kakhovka dam in March 2023 |
Internal polling must be really bad: Trump tries to reign in Elon Musk, or at least appear to be doing so
... The president’s message represents the first significant move to narrow Musk’s mandate. According to Trump’s new guidance, DOGE and its staff should play an advisory role — but Cabinet secretaries should make final decisions on personnel, policy and the pacing of implementation. ...
Trump plunges to -8 from +6 in Rasmussen Trump Approval Index
42% now strongly disapprove vs. 34% on January 23rd.
The House Freedom Caucus' Chip Roy, attacked by Trump in the past, is folding like a house of cards, will support yet another continuing resolution authorizing spending through September 30th
In shift, hard-line conservatives signal openness to stopgap to avert shutdown
... For years, members of the House Freedom Caucus have been predictable “no” votes on stopgaps and other spending measures that do not codify their priorities, railing against leaders for failing to approve appropriations bills on time.
But now, many of those members — happy with how the Trump
administration and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is taking a
sledgehammer to the federal government — are being atypically
cooperative and signaling support for Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.)
plan to pass a largely clean continuing resolution (CR) until Sept. 30,
the end of the fiscal year. Trump endorsed the full-year CR last week.
“My bottom line is: It’s a step forward, again, based on the word that we’re being given from the White House, that they will continue to do the work, that the president supports it and wants it, I’m comfortable,” said Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a deficit hawk who is part of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. ...
These bumblebrains really don't get it.
Elon Musk and DOGE have usurped the role of Congress and have made the Congress irrelevant by accomplishing what they never do.
They should just pack it in. Or maybe DOGE should just eliminate them.
After all, they can't list any accomplishments, can they?
Judge John McConnell blocks Trump's freeze on federal grants and loans, citing the executive's usurpation of Congress' power of the purse
A second federal judge indefinitely blocked President Trump’s blanket freeze on federal grants and loans, saying the administration “put itself above Congress.”
U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s preliminary injunction in favor of Democratic state attorneys general adds to a near-identical block imposed by a federal judge in the nation’s capital late last month.
Both lawsuits commenced after Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a now-rescinded memo that instructed federal agencies to pause grants and loans, a sweeping freeze that covered trillions of dollars of federal spending.
Under McConnell’s order, the Trump administration is indefinitely prohibited from implementing an across-the-board funding freeze under a different name. Agencies can still limit funding access on an individualized basis under applicable laws and regulations.
“The Executive’s categorical freeze of appropriated and obligated funds fundamentally undermines the distinct constitutional roles of each branch of our government,” wrote McConnell, an appointee of former President Obama.
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