LEAVITT: "I think it is insulting you are trying to test my knowledge of economics... I now regret giving a question to the Associated Press."

LEAVITT: "Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries. Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people."

AP REPORTER: "Have you ever paid a tariff? Because I have. They don't get charged on foreign companies, they get charged on the importers."

I don't have the words to describe this. The people of the United States have had to topple a statue of a king in NYC before. We can do it again. 😡
(For context, this is a photo that is on the official WH Facebook page, celebrating Trump's rescinding NYC's congestion pricing.)

Musk maintains that the DOGE website is their answer to the calls for transparency in the process. They also post on Twitter under the DOGE handle. But guess what all this lacks? Content. The Receipts tab that I have shown here? It has had ‘content coming’ labels for weeks.

This is a real website. This is a real government website. This website is SUPPOSED to tell you what the US DOGE Service is reviewing and cutting. It does not do that.

Are you tired of winning yet Trump voters?
"Career staff and U.S. DOGE Service aides have clashed over efforts to freeze new hires. A backlog of unfilled positions is building even in critical agencies — such as the Department of Veterans Affairs

I was surprised by this. In that sense, it is both a surprise and not a surprise, as I’ve been waiting for this to start happening. Those Evangelical votes that Republicans covet so much are emboldened by their success, and it’s now time to start attacking the ‘other’.

Government employees are your neighbors, your friends, and loved ones. They do the work of the Federal Government so that we can enjoy beautiful National Parks, feel safe due to efforts in the US and abroad, eat safe food, and a million other things we don’t even think about in our daily lives.

Trump, Musk and their allies have never had nice things to say about government workers, but their language has gotten more overtly hostile. Due to willful ignorance about what people do and a pathological distrust of expertise, they alone have determined that they know what is right and wrong.

For some reason, this has been one of the hardest of these missives to write. Then, I had a meeting with my therapist that teased out the issue. I’m too close to this one. Given what I studied, it’s not a surprise that I have a lot of US Government employees as friends.

"The president acknowledged that such extensive tariffs could cause Americans “some temporary short-term disruption,” but added: “People will understand that."
No. They won't. Because people don't take time to understand anything anymore. I hope someone throws an egg at him European style.