Should the US be a Dictatorship?

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Illinois is officially shut out of Medicaid: https://chicago.suntimes.com/politi...d-federal-funding-freeze-trump-administration

 

[Kaitzilla]

Can a federal judge put a temporary restraining order on this executive order like the birthright citizenship executive order?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1884271636230332562

Guess we'll find out.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Medicaid is officially down in all 50 states

 

[EnglishEdward]

The individual US states should respond by legislating that their residents and
businesses must pay federal taxes due, not to the federal government, but to the states.

The states could then pass on what was left, after deductions for medicaid
and other stopped programs, to the federal government.

 

[Zardnaar]

Medicaid is officially down in all 50 states

For non Americans.....?

 

[Broken_Erika]

For non Americans.....?

For Everyone.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

For non Americans.....?

Medicaid is a government health insurance program for low income Americans (adults and children), although low income is up to 250% of the poverty line. About 80 million people use it.

 

[Zardnaar]

Medicaid is a government health insurance program for low income Americans (adults and children), although low income is up to 250% of the poverty line. About 80 million people use it.

Cheers.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Welp, figured out exactly why they did this. I need to always remember:

Pedocon theory is real.

From there, you simply ask yourself; does this further conservative’s goal of pedophilia and child abuse?

In this case, yes! This freeze stops the Internet Crimes Against Children task force.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

A full list of programs affected: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000194-ad9c-de9c-a5b6-efbd29400000

It is a massive 52 page sheet in very small print. Department of Agriculture and the Interior appear to be hit the hardest just in raw numbers of programs.

 

[Lexicus]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/trump-funding-freeze-medicaid-state-portals-omb.html

@Farm Boy whose class interest is this in?

 

[Kaitzilla]

Another update.

Trump pauses federal loans and grants, putting trillions at risk: ‘Preposterous waste of taxpayer dollars’

The sweeping halt, which encompasses a slew of longstanding government assistance disbursements including foreign aid, was set to go into effect Tuesday at 5 p.m.

nypost.com

The sweeping halt, which encompasses a slew of longstanding government assistance disbursements including foreign aid, was set to go into effect Tuesday at 5 p.m., teeing up a legal showdown over the extent of a president’s powers to spend or not spend money appropriated by Congress.

The number of programs affected and the exact amount of funding at stake is unclear, because the memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was rife with carveouts subjecting the freeze to what is “permissible under applicable law” and allowing for exemptions on a “case-by-case basis.”

I guess Trump wants everyone to beg for an exemption so he can pick and choose.

He can also decide how long the 'temporary' funding halt is based off his mood I guess.

The Trump administration insisted Tuesday afternoon that programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Section 8 rental assistance, and Pell grants would not be impacted.

However, Democratic lawmakers from Connecticut, Florida, Illinois and Hawaii claimed that their state’s online Medicaid portals were down after the memo was issued.

Meanwhile, the attorneys general of six Democrat-led states — California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island — announced they were suing to challenge the hold.

How long before Trump complains Medicaid being down is malicious compliance by The Deep State?

 

[Farm Boy]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/trump-funding-freeze-medicaid-state-portals-omb.html

@Farm Boy whose class interest is this in?

I think we both know.

But I still voted against him twice for every time you did, so it's not like I'm going to be ashamed for calling out liberal douchebaggery elsewhere.

 

[Lexicus]

I think we both know.

But I still voted against him twice for every time you did, so it's not like I'm going to be ashamed for calling out liberal douchebags elsewhere.

This isn't about how anyone voted, it's about framing Trump as a tribune of the plebs

 

[Farm Boy]

Is that actually what you read?

That'd be amazing.

That they can be bought off so rhetorically cheaply says more about what he's arguing against that what he claims he's for.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

No worries everyone! They’re going to get back to us on whether or not they closed down a program that represents 11% of the federal budget. Please don’t panic! Tomorrow is a new day.

 

[Gorbles]

says more about what he's arguing against

Does it though? It reads as an attempt to push culpability thataway. Hoping I'm wrong. Haven't hit my target for the week yet.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Trump's purpose is to cut enough costs to enable his tax cuts the rich.

 

[Broken_Erika]

No worries everyone! They’re going to get back to us on whether or not they closed down a program that represents 11% of the federal budget. Please don’t panic! Tomorrow is a new day.

Now they're "Aware" of it
Starting to look like incompetence.

Meanwhile

Access to other federal health programmes appear to be blocked​

As well as difficulty accessing Medicaid payments, which we reported on earlier, other recipients of federal health dollars have also reported being locked out - according to CBS News - the BBC's US partner.

This includes the Head Start early childhood education programmes and community health centres.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c360k9rl1znt

 

[Lexicus]

Trump's purpose is to cut enough costs to enable his tax cuts the rich.

I think it's much more likely he wants to draw litigation and then have SCOTUS basically rule that Article 1 of the Constitution is an unconstitutional restriction on the President's power to control the federl budget unilaterally (okay, not literally that, but something like that).