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DJT is now attempting to usurp the Power of the Purse from Congress: Red States Fucked

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/white-house-pauses-federal-grants.html

>The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a memo sent to government agencies on Monday, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of programs and jeopardizing spending that Congress has mandated by law.

>In the two-page memo, Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance,” and any other programs that included “D.E.I., woke gender ideology and the Green New Deal.”

>Mr. Vaeth signaled that the pause, which goes into effect on Tuesday, would continue until at least mid-February, and said that it was needed to ensure federal programs aligned with President Trump’s policy priorities.

>“The use of federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism and Green New Deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve,” Mr. Vaeth said.

>It is not immediately clear what programs would fall under those categories. The Green New Deal, for example, was a policy proposal that never became law.

>The extent of the pause, although potentially sweeping, was also unclear. The memo carved out an exception for “assistance received directly by individuals,” and Medicare and Social Security benefits, but did not provide examples — like if a tax benefit for environmentally friendly purchases counted for the exception.

>The memo also cited “more than $3 trillion” in federal financial assistance that would be affected by the directive, but it also provided overall spending figures that significantly inflated the federal budget. Government analysts estimated the budget for fiscal year 2024 at $6.7 trillion. Mr. Vaeth’s memo asserts the government spent “nearly $10 trillion” in that
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Amazon ramps up ad spending on Elon Musk's X, WSJ reports

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https://www.reuters.com/business/amazon-ramps-up-ad-spending-elon-musks-x-wsj-reports-2025-01-30/

Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab is increasing its advertising on billionaire Elon Musk's social media platform X, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The major shift comes after the e-commerce giant withdrew much of its advertising from the platform more than a year ago due to concerns over hate speech.
In 2023, Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab also pulled all of its advertising from X and has recently been in discussions about testing ads on the platform, the report said.
Several ad agencies, tech and media companies had also suspended advertising on X following Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic post that falsely accused members of the Jewish community of inciting hatred against white people.
Monthly U.S. ad revenue at social media platform X has declined by at least 55% year-over-year each month since Musk bought the company, formerly known as Twitter, in October 2022. He had acknowledged that an extended boycott by advertisers could bankrupt X.
Musk has become one of the most influential figures following President Donald Trump's re-election. He now leads the Department of Government Efficiency, which aims to cut $2 trillion in government spending.

Orange Moron faces pushback on yet another illegal EO, badly spelled rage tweets to follow

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Did you know? The system of Senate-confirmed inspectors general at large agencies was established in the late 1970s, after the Watergate scandal, to conduct independent investigations and audits of federal spending and operations and report the findings to Congress and the public.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-federal-inspectors-general-fired/

The Trump administration purged at least a dozen federal inspectors general overnight Friday, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News. It is an unprecedented move that will likely result in legal challenges.

Speaking to reporters abroad Air Force One on his way to Florida, President Trump on Saturday described the firings as "standard" and a "very common thing to do."

However, the inspector general of the U.S. Small Business Administration said the firings are legally dubious and will be challenged.

Hannibal "Mike" Ware was among those fired. He argued in a letter to a White House personnel official, which was obtained by CBS News on Saturday, that he "does not believe the actions taken are legally sufficient."

According to Ware, he and other inspectors general were sent an email from Sergio Gor, the director of presidential personnel, on Friday informing them that "due to changing priorities, your position as Inspector General...is terminated, effective immediately."

Ware, in his letter, recommended Gor reach out to White House legal counsel to discuss the "intended course of action" as "we do not believe the actions taken are legally sufficient to dismiss Presidentially Appointed, Senate Confirmed Inspectors General."

Federal law requires the White House to give Congress a full month of warning and case-specific details before firing a federal inspector general.
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DEI nurse hire charged with breaking white infants' bones

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/virginia-babies-icu-nurse-charged.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/virginia-babies-icu-nurse-charged.html

A Virginia woman was charged with child abuse on Thursday over her connection to mysterious injuries that appeared on a newborn in a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital where she worked as a nurse, officials said.

The woman, Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, 26, of Chesterfield County, Va., was charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse, according to court records and the Henrico County Police Division.

The arrest came after the police began investigating three babies who were discovered with “unexplained fractures” in the newborn care unit of Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond in late November and December, the hospital said in a statement on Friday. The hospital said it provided footage to the authorities to help in their investigation.

If found guilty, Ms. Strotman faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for the felony child neglect charge and 20 years for the malicious wounding charge, Shannon Taylor, the Henrico County’s commonwealth’s attorney, said in a statement.

Ms. Strotman is being held without bond in Henrico County Regional Jail West. Her lawyer did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Saturday.

The hospital, which in the statement described Ms. Strotman as a former employee, declined to say when Ms. Strotman began working there. She received her nursing license in May 2019, and her certification is active, according to the Virginia Department of Health Professions.

Though three babies were recently discovered with fractures, Ms. Strotman was only charged in connection to injuries to a single victim, Ms. Taylor said.

The abuse, which took place on or before Nov. 11, 2024, echoes cases from 2023, when four babies were discovered with mysterious injuries at the same hospital, Ms. Taylor said.
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Trump: Eggs cost more because Biden killed 100 million chickens.

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/spoiler/ He's correct.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/business/chickens-avian-flu/index.html
At her first White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made an unusual claim about the inflation that has stung American shoppers for years: Leavitt said egg prices have continued to surge because “the Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens, which has led to a lack of chicken supply in this country, therefore lack of egg supply, which is leading to the shortage.”

That’s not exactly correct, and it needs some context.

Those “killings” are required by the Department of Agriculture to contain the spread of the highly contagious avian flu that has afflicted 100 million birds since 2022, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The egg-laying birds either die naturally or are culled to avoid the spread of the deadly virus. It is up to farmers to report an outbreak to state officials and the Department of Agriculture, which will eliminate the impacted flock. Farmers can apply for financial assistance from the USDA if they lose their flocks.
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Merit-based hiring for leadership of OPM includes a 21 year old and a fresh high school graduate

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https://fortune.com/2025/01/29/top-hires-donald-trump-office-of-personnel-management-high-school-graduate-gen-z-elon-musk/

While all new presidential administrations bring a swath of fresh faces to government offices, President Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management will reportedly have a handful of wide-eyed Gen Zers taking top spots within the agency.

Among the new hires for the body overseeing federal hiring and firing is a 21-year-old and a 2024 high school graduate, Wired reported Tuesday, citing anonymous sources within the federal government. The 21-year-old will serve as a senior advisor to Scott Kupor, Trump’s pick for the director of OPM, and the newly graduated high schooler will directly report to the agency’s chief of staff Amanda Scales, according to the outlet. Wired did not name the two individuals out of sensitivity to their ages.

The incoming Trump administration is evidently not opposed to hiring young people. Karoline Leavitt, who made her debut as White House press secretary Tuesday, is the youngest person to hold the position, at 27.

The onslaught of unconventional new hires reflects Trump’s sweeping approach to hirings, firings, and freezes that has so far shuffled at least 240 government employees. These changes are complementary to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Services, which replaced the Obama-era U.S. Digital Services. DOGE’s goal is to overhaul federal bureaucracy through cost-cutting, and eliminating what the administration sees as unnecessary roles.

New hires with ties to Musk
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Trump says Keir Starmer doing 'very good job'

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjvyyn7k99o

US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has done a "very good job thus far" and that the pair have a "very good relationship".

Asked by the BBC on board Air Force One about his relationship with Sir Keir, Trump added that they would be having a call "over the next 24 hours".

Trump and the Labour leader have met on a number of occasions, including a visit by Sir Keir to Trump Tower in New York during the presidential campaign.

Tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk, however, has been strongly critical of Sir Keir and has repeatedly called for his removal from office.

"I get along with him well. I like him a lot," Trump said of Sir Keir.

"He's liberal, which is a bit different from me, but I think he's a very good person and I think he's done a very good job thus far.
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Zesty Anchor to Grieving Widower: "Spill the Deets!"

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https://www.newsweek.com/dc-plane-crash-reporter-blasted-asking-man-show-victim-wifes-texts-2023393
https://files.catbox.moe/iafw5c.mp4

In a scene straight out of Nightcrawler, CBS WUSA9 Anchor pressures man seeking information about his (assumed-dead) wife to show his wife's last text to the camera. The woman (assumedly) died yesterday when her flight, Flight 5342, collided with a Black Hawk military helicopter.

The insensitive thug-shaker's faux pas has thus sparked quite the outrage online, with the video having been deleted from WUSA9's website & YouTube channel.

Bank teller in Georgia and one other accused of stealing $2.6 million using fraud scheme

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A former Gwinnett County bank employee is facing charges for his part in a fraud scheme that cost a bank more than $2.5 million.

In October, an employee at Fifth Third Bank on Holcomb Bridge Rd. called 911 to report that another employee, 33-year-old Fedrick Jeffries, had been stealing money from the bank and opening fraudulent accounts.

Investigators learned that between May and October 2024, Jeffries had opened five checking accounts and gotten an unsecured loan of $24,500.

Cont'd:

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/gwinnett-county/gwinnett-bank-teller-accused-stealing-26-million-fraud-scheme/3UOB4MVO7ZAK7LYYZUNSKKN7XY/