Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use “every available tool” to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including “withholding administrative funds from states” for the first time in history.
There is no single national program for unemployment support, though the federal government partners with state agencies to support temporary financial assistance to out-of-work Americans. Nearly 2 million people are currently receiving those benefits, while roughly 229,000 people are filing initial jobless claims every week, according to the Labor Department.
the “fraud” starts and ends at the oval office. investigate that s.o.b. first.
Thats not true. My state governor is also a criminal and is grifting on a state level too…
Jokes on them, it’s basically impossible to get unemployment here to start with.
Where is here?
America.
Are we at the beheading part of history yet?
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Not with that attitude it won’t
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He just had dinner at Versailles, home of Marie Antoinette.
He’s had numerous “Let them eat cake moments,” most recently his “I love the Inflation” moment, and sooner or later he’s going to cross the wrong line when the timing is right, and he’ll meet the same fate.
I think he said “these things happen” in relation to the price of tickets - possibly even more recently than the idiotic inflation comment.
The biggest waste in the USA right now is the oxygen keeping him alive.
Does that equal an amount intended for ballrooms or Iran?
When he breaks California, I hope the red states will like living in cardboard boxes and eating dirt.
Seriously. He wants to destroy the United States by having blue, wealthy, supportive states succeed. Then let’s see how his supporters pull themselves up by their own boot straps and levitate.
You mean fail?
Man, he is hell-bent on losing the midterms, isn’t he? The only way Republicans are going to hold onto anything after the midterms, is if they cheat…hard.
The only way Republicans are going to hold onto anything after the midterms, is if they cheat…hard.
Which is exactly what’s going to happen. Not enough people are willing to “Make MAGA Afraid”, they’d rather make it into something silly. The far-right and alt-right are not afraid of us, and that empowers them. MAGA needs to be truly terrified, then we’ll win the midterms and the next presidential election. If MAGA is not scared, we won’t have another presidential election.
Don’t believe me, continue to keep doing what you’re doing.
Do you wanna fight? Then “Make MAGA Afraid”.
It’s really hard to really cheat in a Midterms. A presidential election comes down to one race in only seven states, it’s fairly easy.
But there are too many Congressional districts, that are watched too closely by locals, to make it work. The best you can do is manipulate the election environment, and hope it causes enough chaos to benefit your side. But those strategies can often help the other side, too.
And no matter what you do, if you’ve just been raging shitheads for 2 years, you just piss off enough people that they overwhelm your cheating strategies, and win anyway.
So, interesting points. However, consider that just in the last few years:
- A Trump ally bought Dominion, the largest producer of electronic ballot boxes and the ones used by a LOT of states. Several studies have shown that via a hardware-side injection, it would be quite easy for anyone with physical access to the…power strip, I think, could manipulate the ballot recording without leaving a significant trace.
- DHS has asked for voter rolls from all states, and ICE/CBP have conducted raids on prominent voter activism groups.
- The FBI has also normalized raiding election offices and has seized ballots from at least the 2020 election, and at least one sheriff’s offices has also attempted to do the same in very similar fashion in California, with very similar warrants, looking for very similar “fraud”, and have also attempted to seize ballots.
The big problem with fucking with a midterm isn’t ease, it’s just scale. When you have cops, the federal and a lot of state and even local DOJs, the President’s personal goon squad (which has now been significantly inflated and equipped), and the FBI willing to harass, intimidate, or arrest voters, steal ballots, and challenge every single race, everywhere, all the time, all backed by think tanks and funding orgs that are backed by some of the richest people in the entire world, it suddenly becomes a lot easier to stop up the gears of democratic elections.
Sure, your locals can challenge the results. They can make noise. But at the end of the day, “move fast and break things” works surprisingly well as a governance tactic if your desired end result is maintaining power, because by the time people have untangled the knots you’ve woven, you’re already ten steps ahead and "well it’d be REALLY HARD AND EXPENSIVE to run a special election (if your locality even has a legal way to do that - most don’t).
Hahaha, do it. I’ll get the pop corn.
Bro this is the most boring shit ever, trump does something crazy half the judges say it’s fine half say it’s not and we go back and forth until the next stupid scandal takes over the headlines
Seems to buzz people everytime.
Cool. Do it. I cannot wait to see what happens before he realizes that his base are beneficiaries of unemployment.
“The American people will no longer tolerate the blatant waste, fraud and abuse of their hard-earned tax dollars — no state should allow it either,”
Excuse me? If anything, the 2024 election made it crystal clear that the American people will, in fact, tolerate the blatant waste, fraud, and abuse of our hard-earned tax dollars. 77 million people actually voted for it.
they even published a fucking playbook called project 2025.
dumbfucks
But they super promised they never even heard of it or was going to use it. Then installed its writers in key positions. Purely by happenstance.
One of the things I hated so much about the 2024 election was all the fucking gaslighting about it, too. There were plenty saying “isn’t that just a liberal conspiracy theory” and bullshit about “blue maga” (lol, whatever) and lots of the corporate media doing that sort of collective shrug about a documented plan.
yuuup. so fucking gross - hey we’re getting the fascist back in the white house, let’s make a list of horrors he can execute!
and the idiots ignored it. the media shrugged. Everyone I know was screaming about it but that tells you a lot about my peers - otherwise, the country just kinda shrugged and said “Yeah but harris slept her way to the top so-”
like, dude, if KH had such a magic vagina that the concept was even conceivable, even then, fuck you, she’s way more competent and they are WAY FEWER FASCIST PLAYBOOKS WAITING FOR HER you goddamned dolts
Amen to all that. Also, I forgot about all the “Heels Up Harris” nonsense…a certain type of individual will do almost anything not to vote for a woman, though.
yup. or POC. it’s amazing the gymnastics they’ll go through to justify voting for their grifting cult leader
oops did a bunch of fascism. whoopsie.
the question is in november, how much pain can they put on all the fucks that made this happen? I want to see dems showing up with receipts, blowtorches and pliers
My biggest fear is that even if we somehow manage to defeat all the cheating Dems STILL won’t take it far enough when it comes to punishing these assholes. They need to be treated like Confederates but actually held to account.
They need to be treated like Confederates but actually held to account.
for real, there must be consequences.
But you see, we have to heal and reach across the aisle or something
hopefully they’ll realize there is no healing until the cancer is cut out.
Yeah and what about that $300B in taxpayer dollars we’re giving to Iran? Seems like the definition of waste, fraud, and abuse.
president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
Projection much, huh?
It’s rationale: how would anyone need unemployment benefit with the best economy the
USA, theworld, sorry: the Universe have seen sincethe US existthe creation of Earth by God??Also privilege, Republicans see themselves as privileged, it’s not fraud when they do it, they are allowed, it’s fraud when others without sufficient privilege do it.
The orange shitstain wants to use that cash to create more corruption.
An actual traitor president and it looks like we’re just gonna ride it out with our fingers crossed.
pls no, this would make the crime rate skyrocket
That’s the idea. Make it so the poor have no choice but commit crimes and then lock them up for it
And then, per the 13th, legal slavery!
That’s what the federal cabal wants.
What the fuck are they trying to do? Why would they wanna destabilize the country?
Peter Thiel and a bunch of the other billionaires want to carve the US up into city states, they’re not particularly secretive about it either. The point is to destroy the country
It’s a quiet revolution most aren’t even aware is going on
Is there any literature on this?
Project 2025.
I look forward to the day people stop thinking it will end in 2028
Because in its an excuse to send in soldiers, try to justify martial law, suspend elections, and otherwise drag the country deeper into authoritarianism. It’s not quite a dictatorship yet, after all.
It’s like they are testing limits. They keep doing crazier shit week after week then say well no one is doing anything about it so let’s keep going.
I’m a cynical bastard who hates that fat orange child raping corrupt disgusting blob of gonorrhoea to my very core and my first thoughts were this is one of two things.
Either corruption. Such as: “why give this money to those poor people when I can have it, I’ll funnel it through numerous companies. Plus with that new ruling about me and my family not being investigated by the tax people then there’s no way anyone will do anything about it”
Or a scare tactic. “Vote for me in the midterms or lose your benefits. By the time this gets to the courts and reversed you’ll be starving or dead AND it’s obvious that no one will do fuck all to me for doing this to you”"why give this money to those
poorLAZY people when I can have it, I’ll funnel it through numerous companies…I can imagine that in their minds it’s fraud because they don’t understand employment insurance and just see lazy unemployed people getting paid. They imagine that everyone who receives E.I. are welfare kings and queens.
