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Trump’s federal worker cuts are destabilizing the nation’s 2 richest Black counties
Baltimore Banner ^ | 04 14 2025 | Greg Morton and Sapna Bansil

Posted on 04/14/2025 5:22:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Since opening in 2022, Herb Banks’ Waldorf-area distillery has served as a gathering spot for federal workers, including four men who used to reconnect over cocktails in the tasting room every Friday evening.

Lately, the group hasn’t stopped in as often. Nor have other regulars. Many in Waldorf, a booming, majority-Black bedroom community in Charles County, are scaling back their spending amid the Trump administration’s aggressive cuts to the federal workforce.

“The revenue has decreased significantly,” Banks said of his business, Copper Compass Distillery.

Charles and Prince George’s counties, Maryland neighbors with intertwined histories, are the nation’s richest majority-Black counties, with median household incomes that exceed $100,000. Nowhere else comes close. Dotted with megachurches, greenery and stately homes, they serve as powerful symbols of Black affluence and opportunity.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackneighborhoods; federalworkers
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1 posted on 04/14/2025 5:22:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Yep, should have guessed it; all that tariff thing is just to launch a Jim Crow attack on those two black counties. Talk about racism. Plain as the nose on your face.


2 posted on 04/14/2025 5:25:07 PM PDT by odawg
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To: yesthatjallen

Ahhhhh....learn to code.


3 posted on 04/14/2025 5:25:17 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..)
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To: yesthatjallen

The grift is ending.


4 posted on 04/14/2025 5:25:35 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: yesthatjallen

In other words, government hires are disproportionally Black.


5 posted on 04/14/2025 5:26:37 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: jacknhoo

Exactly, they had or have jobs with no purpose.


6 posted on 04/14/2025 5:27:01 PM PDT by Clean_Sweep
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To: yesthatjallen

Izz waciss ta cut da budget!


7 posted on 04/14/2025 5:27:12 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: mbrfl
In other words, government hires are disproportionally Black.

They hire and manage the white contractors that do all the work.

8 posted on 04/14/2025 5:27:56 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: yesthatjallen

Just like the rest, they’re only rich because of graft.


9 posted on 04/14/2025 5:32:45 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: yesthatjallen

In a few years, those neighborhoods will become just like Detroit.

Graffiti, crime and prostitution will be it’s namesake, like all other urban ghettos. /spit


10 posted on 04/14/2025 5:34:36 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: mbrfl

In other words, whether you have a “job” or not, the Federal government is just a source of entitlements...


11 posted on 04/14/2025 5:34:46 PM PDT by BB62
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To: yesthatjallen

Can’t argue with the logic. We need to keep spending because we are employing black people.


12 posted on 04/14/2025 5:37:32 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: yesthatjallen

Waldorf MD is a crime ridden shxthole. It’s now DC’s suburb with all the drugs crime etc and can guess who’s doing the crime.


13 posted on 04/14/2025 5:42:54 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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100%
Charles County used to be a nice place to live.
No more.


14 posted on 04/14/2025 5:49:41 PM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: yesthatjallen

Without reading a word beyond the headline I’ll go with....

Alex, I’ll take for $1000 who are the blood sucking DEI hires making six figures a year working for the Fed. Gubermint on the back of taxpayers.

How did I do?


15 posted on 04/14/2025 5:52:23 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: yesthatjallen

That sinking feeling you get when your grift gov job is ending and you realize that there are no more manufacturing jobs to be had in the USA....


16 posted on 04/14/2025 5:55:06 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: yesthatjallen

It seems like the people who hate everything Trump is doing are the one’s who were making money off of the American government.


17 posted on 04/14/2025 5:56:00 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: yesthatjallen

More Pothead News. Has this been Fact Checked yet?


18 posted on 04/14/2025 5:58:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The RAT "media" and their lies is the greatest threat to America.)
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To: yesthatjallen
distillery ?

so....

they are drinking less ?

GOOD

the only downside to that is the leftie feds will live longer before they meet their maker and collect their due reward.

19 posted on 04/14/2025 6:00:44 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: Flavious_Maximus
Lived near there since the late 80's. A nice new mall, good place to shop...The mall went to crap in the 2000's as D.C. residents moved in.

Waldorf has a shell of a mall now, not safe for people who lack color. Waldorf is now a just a rich ghetto.

20 posted on 04/14/2025 6:08:28 PM PDT by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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