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Trump to direct federal agencies to move into ‘Opportunity Zones’
NY Post ^ | 8/24/20 | Ebony Bowden

Posted on 08/25/2020 10:23:37 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday will order federal agencies to prioritize moving their offices to Opportunity Zones to spur investment in some of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, The Post has learned.

The move will apply to all federal agencies and asks that they stop prioritizing city centers and central business districts and instead base themselves in any of the 8,769 low-income communities designated as Opportunity Zones by the Trump administration...

...A senior White House official said the order would see immense federal resources poured into distressed communities and also drive down the high cost of locating government offices in expensive business districts...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: opportunityzone
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I think this is brilliant. It may even go a long way to weeding out some bureaucrats that are in it for the perks.
1 posted on 08/25/2020 10:23:37 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Joe 6-pack

Before the day is over the democrats will begin condemning this. Do you think they want to give up one square foot of the area they control? (and have deliberately ruined.)


2 posted on 08/25/2020 10:26:29 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

YES!

Get them out of DC.


3 posted on 08/25/2020 10:26:51 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

ALthough it puts them at harms way as easier targets for the far-left insurrectionists.

On the other hand, it also would give a reason for federal deployment of LEO to protect the federal agencies.

And anything that takes federal dollars away from rich city liberals would be a boon.


4 posted on 08/25/2020 10:27:23 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Joe 6-pack

BRILLIANT!!!!


5 posted on 08/25/2020 10:27:36 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (This is all a communist plan!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

LOVE IT!

L


6 posted on 08/25/2020 10:29:29 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Also, if there is unrest in the area, he can quickly ignore the democrat mayor and bring in the feds to protect federal offices.


7 posted on 08/25/2020 10:30:27 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

I just posted basically this. You beat me to it.


8 posted on 08/25/2020 10:30:58 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Wow !


9 posted on 08/25/2020 10:33:38 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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https://youtu.be/hmFZ4OrappE

Reminds me of a scene from Walking Tall.


10 posted on 08/25/2020 10:34:28 AM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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Yet Pres. Trump is a racist.


11 posted on 08/25/2020 10:35:53 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated)
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DJT plays 3D chess...

I just read that Trump has reached a trade deal with the EU to eliminate the up to 20% Tariffs on Maine lobsters...

Tonight there is a speaker, Jason Joyce, who is a Maine Lobsterman...!!!

Guess what he’ll be talking about???

Maine could be moving into the DJT electoral orbit!


12 posted on 08/25/2020 10:37:32 AM PDT by MCEscherHammer
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Exactly lol


13 posted on 08/25/2020 10:39:10 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Bkmrk.


14 posted on 08/25/2020 10:40:29 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: hardspunned

Good post.


15 posted on 08/25/2020 10:40:47 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: I want the USA back

Oh absolutely. The is Federal Gentrification of the poor communities. Gentrification forces out the poor, increases property taxes and mortgages. It does little to “help” the existing people in the area. It simply forces them out.


16 posted on 08/25/2020 10:45:10 AM PDT by EBH (It is time. We need to take the upper hand. The Election time will be too late.)
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Be like this
17 posted on 08/25/2020 10:45:53 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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I think this is brilliant. It may even go a long way to weeding out some bureaucrats that are in it for the perks.

The demonRATs know that this is the death knoll for the black vote monopoly and they are shitting in their fag partner's pants.

If this goes through, the demonRATs can commit hari kari.

18 posted on 08/25/2020 10:46:23 AM PDT by USS Alaska
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If this goes through, the demonRATs can commit hari kari.

I'd have been happy if they just moved to Canada like they promised...but I'll take this as an alternative.

19 posted on 08/25/2020 10:49:06 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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" I think this is brilliant."

👍

20 posted on 08/25/2020 10:51:04 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it] today.)
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