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BREAKING: Trump's budget office has ordered a temporary freeze on federal financial assistance, a move that could pause payments to states and households receiving aid like SNAP food aid.

This is nuts.

Destroying relations with your allies while also raising prices dramatically.

The “Golden Age of America” sucks.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Nancy Mace voted against wildfire prevention funding in December.

Now Nancy Mace says, “We stand with those who are losing everything—homes, memories, and a sense of safety.”

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Something I've flagged in the newsletter recently is that groups like Texas Right to Life have been scouring men's rights groups to find aggrieved boyfriends, ex-husbands and the like who are angry their partners got abortions without their 'permission'

I wish the media spent half as long on the fact that Donald Trump pardoned Charles Kushner only to appoint him an ambassador as they did bashing President Biden for the Hunter pardon.

The President has no unilateral power to create new government "Departments."

All he can do is create an "Office" within the White House (like Bush and the "Office of Homeland Security" after 9/11).

Actual "Departments" with actual powers require Congress to enact (filibuster-proof) legislation.

Matt Gaetz. Matt Gaetz? MATT GAETZ FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL????