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.
Have to imagine this will disproportionately hurt red states and then they’ll blame it on Obama or Biden or something. Really hoping some state will withhold federal taxes but I know our leaders are too spineless for that :[
Then, magically unemployment will go down and they’ll call it a success. Even though all that’s happened are fewer people qualifying for unemployment, and more than likely it will result in a net increase in unemployed people.
It says they will take funding from states that don’t comply with their bullshit so I’m sure the red states will be fine
If you take the top 10 states by unemployment rate, half of them are red states. Top 20, almost 3/4.
California funds its own unemployment benefits, of course Trump is too stupid to know this.
There’s not really a mechanism for withholding federal taxes
Sounds like something easy to fix, just don’t pay them
Waste and fraud… If only someone hadn’t started a war with Iran and then paid them $300B three months later to end it, gaining precisely nothing…
And spent 14 million painting a pool blue?
And renaming the color green to blue
The waste fraud and abuse are coming from inside the house.
And the senate, and the White House, and mar a lago
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
I’m not sure you’re getting the reference.
The house is part of congress, the other half being the senate, there was ambiguity and I ran with it
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.
Wow, you may be the only one who gets very popular cultural references.
How do empires die?
Gradually then suddenly.
The US is in the latter stage.
Burnt through their head start after ww2 and squandered it all.
Punctuated equilibrium.
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
We effectively had our Hannibal moment getting locked into a stalemate with Iran.
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.
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.
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.
Perfect time to declare martial law and lock up anyone who doesn’t play by their rules and then hold power forever
Don’t stop your enemy from committing a terrible mistake.
And time to both think about that fact, and to do something.
Correct they are effectively rolling back as much as they can to before the New Deal
Being AGAINST Fraud means
NOT Taking Bribes!NOT giving Handouts to Illegal Immigrants that FIRED Hundreds of Thousands of Americans!NOT using Taxpayer Dollars on Vanity Projects!NOT giving my Friends Billions of Dollars in a Slush Fund!NOT giving Single moms Unemployment Benefits! And there’s NO WAY this Backfires!If he’s worried about fraud in government he outta check his pockets.
Oh he knows
The new distraction from the Epstein files is here!
Make the masses even more desperate. Surely they won’t resort to extrajudicial means to survive.
I think they want that so they can go full blown totalitarian with an excuse
There’s more of us than there are of them. All we need is the will to do the needful, regardless of how distasteful it is. Pushing people to the edge increases that will.
So Trump is tanking the economy and burning through cash so bad he has to take money from people without jobs.
Technically this would boost “the economy” in the way these guys measure it by increasing corporate profits and stock values because companies will be able to squeeze there workers for more output with the greater threat of unaided unemployment.
But lowering wages would decrease consumer spending
A majority of consumer spending is now done by the top 20%, as long as this doesn’t effect them the corporate overlords don’t give a fuck.
Kamala probably would have done the same thing, so we really didn’t have a choice.
Based on what exactly? I don’t care for her policies nor her as a person but explain the logic behind such a dumb statement
I think it was sarcasm
Text is hard but this was pretty obviously sarcasm. Not enough vitriol to be genuine.
I can only assume you missed the loud WHOOOSH! as a giant s flew over your head …
Yeah maybe, last time I checked saracasm doesn’t translate through text dumbass
Yeah, I’m the dumbarse in this situation… good one.
Nice rebuttal, sod off
Harris would have started a war with Iran to boost her shitty poll numbers, gave them three hundred billion after losing that war then taken unemployment benefits to pay for it.
Based on what exactly? I don’t care for her policies nor her as a person but explain the logic behind such a dumb statement
Just die already.
How to speedrun the revolt
Turns out bombing innocent fishermen, killing Americans in the street, destroying the whitehouse, crashing the economy, fucking up gas prices, letting disease run rampant, enslaving migrants, stopping production of physical cash, implementing a surveillance state, threatening to annex our neighbors, cutting any and all trade while alienating our allies didn’t do the trick.
How long until they just blatantly start air striking entire states ya think?
