I thought that much like all of the hand wringing about egg prices in February, it’s completely asinine to blame budget numbers from the first 3 months of his term on him.
But the whole idea of DOGE was to bring down spending immediately.
Don’t forget: DOGE has huge downsides. No regard for impacts of disruption, makes the US Govt look foolish and irresponsible when they have to reverse their decisions, tramples the Constitutional role of Congress, etc.
So if it’s not bringing down spending immediately, then that’s a total failure with huge unnecessary damage.
Speaking of which, do you blame him for not working with Congress to cut spending in a way that is consistent with the Constitution?
The premise of doge is that the president is the head of the executive branch and has jurisdiction over it. Liberal courts which went to no end to prosecute Trump with sham charges are doing what they can to stop him.
The expansion of the federal government was largely accomplished the dubious executive action and it stands to reason that that’s the only way it’s going to be reduced.
This is largely like the liberal strategy of actively facilitating the invasion of the country by 10s of millions of unknown immigrants and then clamoring about due process when anyone tries to undo it.
Don’t give me that ‘sham charges’ nonsense. You know as well as I do that he committed serious crimes. If you had any sense of civic responsibility you should be appalled by the corruption that means he will avoid accountability for his crimes.
But you don’t have any such sense of responsibility. Your last paragraph gives you away: you’ve swallowed the culture war bait and you’ll ignore any atrocities by Trump as long as he plays to your sense of fear and prejudice.
His crime was not filling out the memo line of a check correctly, for which he was charged with dozens of crimes (past the statute of limitations) by a prosecutor who literally campaigned on the promise to charge DJT with “something”. It was clearly, obviously, a sham, politically-motivated charge.
The irony of course is that that court case did more to “damage Democratic institutions” than anything Trump has done.
And how do you propose that the size of the federal government be reduced? Or do you just think it should continue to expand in perpetuity until everything becomes the government?
Everything inside the state, nothing outside the state - Barack Obama
“Cutting the scope and size of Big Government”… not so much.
From the hippies at the Wall St Journal:
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doge-government-spending-increases-5903992d
Maybe the bill for those El Salvadorian prison camps is too high?
Or maybe it’s the extra troops for the Greenland invasion?
I wonder if the Government should cancel those SpaceX contracts to save some money?
The WSJ are globalist neocons like all the rest.
You’ve got to be pretty far up your own ass to trot out the WSJ as some sort of dissident publication. 2004 called.
You’re still talking about “neocons” and then accusing others of living in 2004?
I’m sorry you didn’t get the joke about the Wall St journal. What did you think of the chart?
Neocons are alive and well they just wear blue ties now. And then there’s McConnell and co. still going strong.
What did you think of the chart?
I thought that much like all of the hand wringing about egg prices in February, it’s completely asinine to blame budget numbers from the first 3 months of his term on him.
But the whole idea of DOGE was to bring down spending immediately.
Don’t forget: DOGE has huge downsides. No regard for impacts of disruption, makes the US Govt look foolish and irresponsible when they have to reverse their decisions, tramples the Constitutional role of Congress, etc.
So if it’s not bringing down spending immediately, then that’s a total failure with huge unnecessary damage.
Speaking of which, do you blame him for not working with Congress to cut spending in a way that is consistent with the Constitution?
The premise of doge is that the president is the head of the executive branch and has jurisdiction over it. Liberal courts which went to no end to prosecute Trump with sham charges are doing what they can to stop him.
The expansion of the federal government was largely accomplished the dubious executive action and it stands to reason that that’s the only way it’s going to be reduced.
This is largely like the liberal strategy of actively facilitating the invasion of the country by 10s of millions of unknown immigrants and then clamoring about due process when anyone tries to undo it.
The premise of DOGE is to put on a cruel authoritarian show, rather than upholding Article 1 of the Constitution and the Impoundment Control Act: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-primer-on-the-impoundment-control-act
Don’t give me that ‘sham charges’ nonsense. You know as well as I do that he committed serious crimes. If you had any sense of civic responsibility you should be appalled by the corruption that means he will avoid accountability for his crimes.
But you don’t have any such sense of responsibility. Your last paragraph gives you away: you’ve swallowed the culture war bait and you’ll ignore any atrocities by Trump as long as he plays to your sense of fear and prejudice.
His crime was not filling out the memo line of a check correctly, for which he was charged with dozens of crimes (past the statute of limitations) by a prosecutor who literally campaigned on the promise to charge DJT with “something”. It was clearly, obviously, a sham, politically-motivated charge.
The irony of course is that that court case did more to “damage Democratic institutions” than anything Trump has done.
And how do you propose that the size of the federal government be reduced? Or do you just think it should continue to expand in perpetuity until everything becomes the government?
Everything inside the state, nothing outside the state - Barack Obama
Let me refresh your memory:
Federal Election Interference (District of Columbia)
Conspiracy to defraud the United States
Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding
Obstructing an official proceeding
Conspiracy against rights (i.e., conspiracy to deprive citizens of their civil rights)
Georgia State Election Interference
Violation of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act
Solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer
Conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer
Conspiracy to commit forgery
Conspiracy to commit false statements and writings
Filing false documents
False statements and writings
Federal Classified Documents Case (Florida)
Willful retention of national defense information
Conspiracy to obstruct justice
Withholding a document or record
Corruptly concealing a document or record
Concealing a document in a federal investigation
Scheme to conceal
False statements and representations