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I guess for all the crazy unpopular shit they want to do- just add ‘Mandate’ to it and it magically becomes what the people wanted.

maybe the word “illegal” should be in there, since it is. or would that make your fascist bootlicking owner clutch his pearls.

This is not how one conducts governmental reviews or audits. This will harm our country in the days & weeks to come. Donald's deliberately stalling our country dead in its tracks. youtu.be/2ajp_-U1b8c

This is going to close down many not for profit and state/county/local governments if long term.

When you have a moron sitting in the newsroom at the WH what can one expect? We can only help that all the grants and loans that go to support the MAGA cult means they will begin to fail and cycle into the sh*thole that their leader lives.

Oh boy, it’s going to be a lawyer-feeding-frenzy. We will make the Trump administration pay dearly.

How to use maximum effort to shut government down with by using intentional chaos to make it so dysfunctional that the only response is to sit, keep your head down and hope the new trump snitch employee working at the desk next to you never looks your way.

This is the chaos we wants

What are they holding it for? Would be fascinating to hear the logic.

Total s**t show 😡

Pausing federal grants to conduct a review of the ridiculous things that the federal government borrows an obscene amount of money every year to fund is long overdue. www.heritage.org/budget-and-s...

I wonder if you’ll ever report on the immediate and widespread destruction these actions will cause to our economy. And perhaps eventually you might venture to guess why he’d want to destroy the greatest economic power the world has ever known.

The treasury has been hijacked by a con artist & fraud who has no problem lining his pockets from the government coffers via conversion, misappropriation, influence peddling & other types of graft.

It should be halt - or “pause” in quotes. Who actually thinks even 1/3 of these will resume? He is saving$2 trillion by closing down the government.

He's trying to tear down the American people. He wants Americans to be like Russian people, no power, no say in their government, lied to over national media. Financially broke. That's what the tariffs are really about. Trump wants to break the American people.

so that means Elon too right?

Nuts

He’s flooding media looking for coverage & chaos. It’s hard to keep calm. I don’t think We the People ( WTP) who didn’t vote for him can do this alone. We need to work on enlightening WTP who didn’t to see the adverse impact on them e.g. Top three states receiving FEMA $: FL, TX and LA.

The lack of critical thinking skills and compassion is appalling. I thought the DOGE billionaires were going to analyze and make recommendations. How many people have to lose their jobs, go hungry, etc etc before citizens have had enough.

Creating confusion? Maybe you should get out a dictionary and explore a little bit

Before people announce “he can’t do that” - Who’s to stop him? SCOTUS declared him immune. They’re fulfilling the wishes of Yarvin/Musk/Thiel/Bezos/Zuck and if not thru Trump, there’s Vance, Thiel’s guy. They aren’t hiding it anymore. AFD support, Sieg Heil, etc. All P2025/accelerationist policy

To have no bottom, no rock bottom to the hatred and do this to children and Sr citizens

Their goal has always been to destroy the govt from within because they (rich people) will be just fine. Chaos benefits the lawless because it weakens or distracts the institutions that are built to protect the rest of us. But you are stupid if you think us common people will benefit from chaos.

Nah, they voted for this and we’ll make sure they know that.

He and his MAGA are afraid of smart people. How crazy is that?

There go the infrastructure projects underway. FDJT.

Dr Evil? Megamind? Dr Robotnik?

Trump is on course to rapidly raise the unemployment and homelessness rates. The ripple effect of his first 10 days in office will cause a loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs.

This is going to kill the economy and a lot of people will get laid off because there's no cash flow to pay them.

This won’t do any long term damage

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

I was wondering the same. I'm hoping not. My college sent me an email that my loan for this semester had been dispersed and a refund would be on its way to my bank account. I'm hopeful that means it wasn't affected by this.

We have no idea, because they have no idea what they’re doing

No one, truly, no one will be paying for the harm that all these orders will be causing to Americans.

That does not affect Jeff Bezos, poised to receive tens of billions of dollars in payments.

This is not going to End well for many

Special education and Title I funds are “grants” to the states…

You guys couldn't run a candy store.

This is huge and will be ridiculously damaging if continued. Damage done could impact all levels of government, critical nonprofits, infrastructure projects, funds for small businesses, faith-based organizations, and much more. These aren’t funds distributed thoughtlessly. Idiocy and dangerous.

Democrats need to inform anyone waiting for results of a scientific study or watching a new manufacturing plant being built in their community with the message: “This pause and possible cancellation of previously approved funding for your project brought to you by President Donald J. Trump.

TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won. Here are the numbers from investigative reporter Greg Palast... hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost...

Yea, right.

They should. A possible citizen’s argument:

But congress has repub majority

We’re fucked

Jeff must be so proud. I hope the price he got for his soul was worth it.

It will be interesting to see if anyone gets their tax refund this year.

nice job Bezos. wtf have you helped lead us to?

There's that 'normal' Trump y'all were talking about...

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing

People are about to find out how much the federal government does for them.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day you’re supposed to venerate the victims and not the perpetrators

So the white house can just ignore Congress?

WaPo had an opportunity to help the country see what was coming…..and punted….

The money may eventually get distributed through Trumps personal bank accounts.

Trump is causing confusion?!?!? Do tell. Trump just blows things up and fixes nothing.

How long before the collective We starts doing something?

Party of the working class, eh?

Absolutely crazy, I am sure there are other places to cut spending. Many smaller agencies that help people in your local area depend on these grants.

He's a dictator. We told you he would be.

Why they don't they suspend Congress's pay until they court martial all MAGA.

That is incredibly dangerous and stupid. Then again, so is this administration.

I'm ordering a revocation of the pause, and I have just as much authority to do that as the executive branch has to order a pause. Trump is again trying to be a dictator by executive order.

Chaos/Instability/disruption/fear/erratic are the descriptive words of the GOP takeover of our Federal Government. Clearly, Republicans cannot govern. They can only attack, destroy, disrupt, generate fear, divide, hate, lie, obstruct and insurrect. Civilized society needs a stable gov. NOT this!

It's really just a very sad thing. Like, in addition to all the other adjectives. Scary, infuriating. But it's really just sad that we decided to let them do this. I cannot believe how badly mainstream media failed the American people.

Confusion and chaos is the goal. They've been saying that for years. My unending contempt and resentment goes to those who voted for the Monster.

That's what happens when you have no idea what you're supposed to be doing. This is definitely worse than the first time when Trump was in office.

I hope it includes pause in student loan repayments.

Project 2025 is in the works and has been for many years. Don’t pretend like no one knew this was going to happen. People were warned, and they didn’t listen.

When the bottom falls out of the bond markets tomorrow, and companies start scrambling for liquidity, I hope people remember that this is what their president was doing at the time.

He’s messing with students, home loans etc .. this mf gotta go

Yes I could believe that as Powell wasn't confirmed yet when he wrote the memo. And I'm sure it wasn't his first political go around. They are all connected Nixon, Powell etc. Just as it hasn't changed much today. Thanks for the photos.

scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/

Koch corrupted my state

Yeah I’m aware. This is just crazy to watch in real time.

Well, I did not have Trump defunding the police on my bingo card. Well, federally at least. The COPS program provides funding for police recruitment and training for local police nationwide.

Just remember they want rioting…

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Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years  www.propublica.org/article/nati...

What the Trump administration has effectively instituted in its first week is a government shutdown potentially more complete than when congress allows our budgets to lapse. Americans have show. Repeatedly that they hate when their government stops working. That is what is happening right now.