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.
Are we at the beheading part of history yet?
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.
I don’t know if it’s ever going to come.
Not with that attitude it won’t
I like it, just losing hope.