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.
pls no, this would make the crime rate skyrocket
That’s what the federal cabal wants.
What the fuck are they trying to do? Why would they wanna destabilize the country?
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.
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
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!
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.
Currently on unemployment thanks to the tech industry. I wonder what my trump loving family members will think when I bring this up the next time they ask me how the job hunt is going.
“Have you asked ChatGPT for help finding a job?”
Knowing Trump fans, they’re going to say it’s a good thing, it’ll make you get up and get a job sooner rather than laying around “wasting time on the government dime”. Cause they all probably believe it’s very easy to get another job.
Was going to say the same thing. Besides, if they know you don’t support PEDOnald, they’ll take it as your comeuppance.
I’ve had a conservative in-law tell me that maybe I should not be getting by financially, and that was implied as part of the problem under Biden - that I was doing okay. Because I went to college, etc. No, I should be doing less well and that would mean things were properly balanced or something. That somehow PEDOnald didn’t “get” people like me the first time around and somehow harmed me and others like me (meaning, again, someone who went to college) - and maybe not only financially and that hopefully that would be different in his second term.
It’s just as fucked as it sounds. Did this in-law think it through and realize it would harm not only my kids, but his direct blood relative? If he did, he didn’t give a fuck, apparently.
If you aren’t conservative and don’t support Donvict, you deserve to suffer, in their worldview.
An actual traitor president and it looks like we’re just gonna ride it out with our fingers crossed.
This is next distraction away from his complete failure in Iran and his green, moldy swimming pool. He’s giving $300 billion to Iran in his total surrender, what’s the total amount of assistance to be withheld in funding here?
Nah, this is social safety net cutting. Don’t you know that desperate people don’t care what those above them are doing? (Also, truly desperate people turn to violence, which is casus belli for a nationwide crackdown)
Not everything is a distraction, most things are moves in and of themselves. It’s just that it takes place inside so much noise that focusing on one thing loses everything else.
You’re arguing a pont without purpose, it’s both. They always have a hopper, packed full of bullshit, and constantly ready to deploy. It’s definitely intentional timing, go read up on his relationship with roy cohn and bannon still advising from sidelines. This is how they operate
Oh! You think they plan things. Think tanks definitely have wish lists, but the admin just does whatever, switching as fast as possible between them so that news of one rides over the news of others.
The issue with framing it as just distraction is that that language feeds into the idea that this is a smokescreen for something else that’s actually important. They’re both important, just timed to take air from each other in the media space. It’s like a magician robbing a guy and using the illegal demolition of a building he wanted destroyed as the distraction. Both acts are things that are important to the person making the decisions, but one is definitely going to be the bigger attention grabber.
The waste fraud and abuse are coming from inside the house.
And the senate, and the White House, and mar a lago
I’m not sure you’re getting the reference.
They could have been thinking of the House part of Congress, since they only listed the Senate.
I’m fairly certain that’s what they were thinking.
The house is part of congress, the other half being the senate, there was ambiguity and I ran with it
Wow, you may be the only one who gets very popular cultural references.
Yes… the white house… exactly… that’s the “joke”
The house is part of congress, the other half being the senate, there was ambiguity and I ran with it
“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.
“Lets do something fast and stupid so they stop talking about me starting and losing a war.”
If they remember that, they remember I started the war to distract from my child prostitution ring.
How do empires die?
Gradually then suddenly.
The US is in the latter stage.
Living through the fall of the US is the fucking worst but also fascinating. It isn’t too often that folks get to see this kinda thing. I hate this so much, but I am very curious to see how shit plays out. I’m doing what I can to improve conditions, but I can only do so much
Burnt through their head start after ww2 and squandered it all.
We effectively had our Hannibal moment getting locked into a stalemate with Iran.
Punctuated equilibrium.
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…
It doesn’t matter what it is, if it’s for working class, then it’s a terrible idea and needs to go.
Sesame Street FFS.
I do think this is Vought though. Trump is too addled at this point in time.
Check me if I’m wrong but the only thing he can cut is the administration funding. The actual benefits are funded by a type of insurance companies pay into. Trump can’t take that away.
All this will do is make processing claims a bitch.He’s such a dick.
I dunno if you’ve noticed, but he can do anything he wants because there’s no opposition.
They want you so desperate to cling to employment that you will no longer care about working conditions or fair wages or be willing to endanger said employment by being politically active.
Correct they are effectively rolling back as much as they can to before the New Deal
Yeah…
But they’re idiots.
There’s not enough jobs to go around, people won’t quietly starve. And the only people with anything to steal from are the wealthy.
They just created a shit ton of people with literally nothing to lose.
Don’t stop your enemy from committing a terrible mistake.
And time to both think about that fact, and to do something.
Perfect time to declare martial law and lock up anyone who doesn’t play by their rules and then hold power forever
