Posted on 02/23/2025 7:30:27 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk look like they’re having a blast in Washington, clear-cutting elements of the federal government and seizing power from states and Congress.
Their glee is at odds with the growing evidence of repercussions and anger out in the country at their approach of cutting first and asking questions later.
The success of Trump’s second term may hinge on how and whether these cuts, imposed indiscriminately and without transparency, are felt out in the country. How small should a bureaucracy be for a country of more than 330 million people that brings in and spends trillions of tax dollars each year?
The White House trolled its critics this week by sharing an image of Trump dressed up like a smiling king after his administration moved to end a congestion pricing program long in the works in New York City.
Musk, who recently bragged of feeding USAID to a “woodchipper” and essentially ending foreign aid, carried the lumberjack metaphor to a new level when he put on sunglasses and wielded a chainsaw onstage to wild cheering during an annual convention for conservatives just outside Washington on Thursday afternoon.
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Probationary workers have been fired at agencies across government, including hundreds at the Federal Aviation Administration just as the agency deals with a deadly plane crash and a string of other incidents that have spooked fliers.
About 6,000 Internal Revenue Service workers were laid off from locations around the country, including at a call center in Utah, just before tax season, sparking a protest in Ogden.
In Roswell, McCormick tried to channel Musk’s point about efficiency, suggesting that some CDC jobs could be done by AI, a comment that did not go over well.
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“I have heard from the Jackson Laboratory, the University of Maine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, the University of New England, and MDI Biological Laboratory, among others, that these cuts, which in some cases would apply retroactively to existing grants, would be devastating, stopping vital biomedical research and leading to the loss of jobs,” Collins said
No dummy that’s Trump and Musk and the rest real Americans.
Of course, T&M need to be careful. There could be a severe backlash if they screw up, leading to another impeachment for T and loss of credibility for M.
THEIR OXES are getting gored-—
THEY NEVER GAVE ONE WHIT WHEN TAXPAYERS WERE HIT HARD—especially by INVADERS.
Well wait until the education money stops to Maine. $250,000,000 because they want boys playing in girls sports.
I’m having fun watching them
About 6,000 Internal Revenue Service workers were laid off from locations around the country, including at a call center in Utah,
HOW MANY PEOPLE REALIZE BIDEN ABSOLUTELY REFUSED TO LET MUSK GO UP & RESCUE OUR ASTRONAUTS???
The IRS answers calls?
From individual taxpayers??
Ha Ha. HA HA HA HA!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
The whining by The Usual Suspects, is music to my ears.
There is gping to be a lot more of this.
“”She also planned cuts to grants from the National Institutes of Health will hit her state in multiple areas.””
Susan Collins is planning cuts to grants from NIH? That sentence does not make sense.
don’t stop here any more. Cry harder.
Trump is just doing what needed to be done.
The Governor should immediately move to have their state legislature impose a series of state, property, and sales tax increase to cover the $250 million federal shortfall so they can keep letting men beat up on women in sports in Maine, robbing women of scholarships. Records. Medals. Etc.
Raise gasoline, propane, coal, fuel oil taxes as well. Add $20 per night hotel room taxes for tourists too. Show those Feds what is important to Maine people.
That and “cuts pile up” - sounds like they were removing carpeting.
The idiot that wrote this fails to understand the real problem.
“ How small should a bureaucracy be for a country of more than 330 million people that brings in and spends trillions of tax dollars each year?”
The problem is too much money coming in and way too much money going out and the massive overhead that these agencies are taking off the top.
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