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My statement on funding DHS:
The proposed Appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security released today puts no meaningful constraints on the growing lawlessness of ICE, and increases funding for detention over the last Appropriations bill passed in 2024.

Trump says he would 'rather not' extend Obamacare tax credits 'at all' The president said he prefers to let the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire on schedule at the end of December, saying if anything he wants the money to go to "the people directly."

NEW: Donald Trump says he wants ACA funds to end after 2025

“I’d rather not" extend them, he tells reporters on AF1. "I don’t want to extend them for two years. I’d rather not extend them at all."

He wants cash to go "directly" to people. Unclear how that'd work.

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Obviously callous, but also a tacit admission that the bill they think is “beautiful” will kill people - all for tax cuts for the ultra-rich

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Unserious and unpopular.

They can’t keep our intelligence secrets safe, our families safe, our economy secure, nor even keep their safe seats safe.

Angry crowd boos Georgia congressman Rich McCormick over support for Donald Trump agenda, DOGE U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick said during a town hall that he does not want to see any president be “too powerful.”

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Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition In Oregon’s 2nd district Rep. Cliff Bentz (R) got a rude awakening...

holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

"The crowd again started shouting “tax Elon,” “tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich” and “tax the billionaires.” " www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

Constituent: When will you stand up to them and say that is enough?

Rep. Fitzgerald: The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered

Crowd: Booo

They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S.military to a faraway country, Panama They were stripped of their passports and most of their cellphones, they said, and then locked in a hotel, barred from seeing lawyers and told they would soon be sent to a makeshift camp near the Panamanian jungle. At the hotel, at least one person tried to commit suicide, according to several migrants. Another broke his leg trying to escape. A third sent a plaintive missive from a hidden cellphone: "Only a miracle can save us."

In one window visible from a sidewalk below the hotel, a woman clawed at a latchless glass pane in an attempt to escape. When she noticed journalists below, she held up a piece of paper that read "Afghan. She made hand motions that indicated an airplane, then her head falling off. The message seemed to be clear: A flight home meant death.

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle.

One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

This Mr. Beast thing is somehow even worse.

Whatever this Kevin hart thing is worse than any low point of another all star game of the last decade.

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.

(Photos shared with me)

Screenshot of tweet posted by Eric Levitz.

Trump is letting the richest man in the world wreak havoc on our government. It's unconstitutional and it's dangerous. Democrats must fight back. And that starts by voting no on his nominees. I urge my colleagues to join me. We cannot confirm any more of Trump's chaos cabinet.

The ordinary questions you might ask: Is Elon Musk a government employee? Are his lieutenants? Does he personally hold a security clearance and do his “lieutenants”? Have they all undergone a background check? Are they subject to foreign influence? Have they ever done a sieg heil on stage?

Why is this piece of shit not in jail or under injunction yet

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
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Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk’s Requests on Payments Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team sought access to the government’s vast payment system, part of its bid to choke off federal funding.

Elon’s lieutenants demanded access to the government’s payment system and all the data therein. A longtime civil servant refused. He was put on administrative leave, and is now out. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit A settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president.

These are not “settlements” they are “bribes” and should be described accurately. The reporting even explains that CBS executives believe this payment will help avert Trump blocking their merger. Thats a bribe. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

Staffing Was ‘Not Normal’ at Air Traffic Tower During Plane Crash The report, reviewed by The New York Times, said that one controller was communicating with both helicopters and planes. Those jobs are typically assigned to two people, not one.

DCA staffing on Wednesday was reportedly not normal — with one air traffic controller handling the job of two people.

These shortages will only be worsened by federal budget cuts and Trump's hiring freeze.

We should be investing in public workers, not attacking them.

Jennifer Jacobs & @JenniferJJacobs Follow back BREAKING: Trump officials are putting a pause on most federal government websites. They are expected to go dark at 5 p.m., Trump officials told me. @CBSNews 4:49 PM • 1/31/25 • 487K Views

I oversaw HealthCare.gov, Medicare.gov sites 2014-2016 .

Gov’t websites do more than provide critical information to help people — they connect people to life-saving services.

Families and kids will pay a steep price for Trump dismantling the gov’t.

elon musk directed the primary regulator of his primary business -- a federal contractor -- to resign. he holds no office other than 'president's largest donor.'

at an oligarch's command, he resigned. one week later, the first aviation crash in the last sixteen years happened.

Trump is going to take heat on this crash because of the moves he is taking (gutting an air safety board, eg)

But also clear that he’s going to take heat because he’s just letting Elon cook- tremendous weakness on Trumps part and abdicating his own power -something I thought he cared about hoarding

Whittlaker’s resignation was at the behest of Elon.

Fork in the road email was mirroring Elon at X, and reporting shows he was behind it.

Elon Musk, who has not been elected or officially appointed to any office, successfully pushed the FAA Administrator to resign 9 days ago.

Just a guy watching tv and posting, with no sense that he’s personally responsible for massively disrupting most of the institutions involved and the lives of their personnel

headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Also, if you're a federal employee what's your confidence you're going to get the "buy out" for typing "resign" in the body of the buyout email since there doesn't seem to be any legal authority to make the offer?