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Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have

WASHINGTON—Declaring the financial allocation a matter of utmost urgency, President Donald Trump on Monday requested $1.2 trillion to have. “I’m calling upon Congress today to immediately provide me with $1.2 trillion in funding that I currently do not possess but which I will possess once it is...
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Meanwhile, they don't seem to have any problems indicting leaders from other jurisdictions...

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...I will say this and I will say this again: Vance will unlikely hold it together once Trump is gone. He's not as well liked as Trump to my understanding, he doesn't have the sway of a cult personality and he has the charisma of a used sofa that's someone has "entertained" themselves on. And he's like with everyone else in that administration..deeply unqualified for his position. He'll likely be one hit wonder at best...and unlikely to overturn election results the way Trump can persuade to do so. I could go on...

Yes, he will be disaster like with everyone else there. But he isn't the golden calf Trump has become. And that will likely be his undoing, IMO.
 
Oh, I don't think anyone but Trump can hold that electoral coalition together (and maybe not even him). But the Democrats are doing as much as possible to not be seen as a worthy alternative.
 
afransen said:
Oh, I don't think anyone but Trump can hold that electoral coalition together (and maybe not even him). But the Democrats are doing as much as possible to not be seen as a worthy alternative.
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That's entirely another debate....which I don't really want to get into. But I will say though, they don't really have to...folks will likely vote for them anyhow as the Rethugs have done everything immorally and unethically that they pretty much outshine all the bad that is the Dems. It's bragging rights to them. And of coarse, assuming any election will be fair at this point as the same are doing everything and planning on doing everything they can to make it unfair. So we already know who the losers are in this match...the ones that don't and won't play nice.

That said, there is always hope the Dems will do the right thing here. But I won't be holding my breath. And to put that mildly.
 
US Senate won’t take up ICE funding bill amid row over Trump’s ballroom, which president defends as ‘very good expenditure’ – live


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US Senate refuses to push through ICE funding amid row over Trump’s ballroom​

A bid to restore funding to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and border patrol has been derailed by rows over a $1bn proposal for security measures tied to Donald Trump’s White House ballroom and controversial plans to create a $1.8bn “anti-weaponization” fund.
The US Senate will not pass the $70bn legislation ahead of a 1 June deadline set by the US president, Republican senators told reporters on Thursday, as lawmakers leave Washington for the Memorial Day recess.
It comes amid backlash from members of Trump’s own party against an attempt to latch funding for his ballroom project on to the immigration bill.
The plan prompted intense anxiety among congressional Republicans, who feared diverting taxpayer dollars toward Trump’s “East Wing modernization project” amid mounting cost of living concerns across the US would risk alienating voters ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Some Senate Republicans have also expressed concerns about a plan, announced on Monday, to create a secretive $1.776bn fund – which critics have argued is essentially a slush fund – to compensate Trump allies as part of an agreement in which the president and his sons dropped a $10bn long-shot lawsuit against the US Internal Revenue Service.
Republican John Thune, the US Senate majority leader, acknowledged “ongoing vote issues” with the wider bill earlier on Wednesday, as the party’s leaders try to gauge support.
Addressing reporters on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Chuck Schumer, the US Senate’s top Democrat, accused Republicans of trying to “sneak” ballroom funding into the bill. “The American people caught them red-handed, and now they’re trying to drop that hot potato,” he said.
Trump, meanwhile, continued to claim the ballroom funding proposal under consideration was for “national security”, including the drone port and bulletproof glass.
“If they want to spend money securing the White House, I think it would be very much a good expenditure,” the US president told reporters. Asked what if Congress doesn’t sign off on the funds, Trump replied: “Well, the White House won’t be a very secure place.”
The East Wing of the White House was reduced to rubble last year to make way for Trump’s plan for a gilded ballroom. Polling has indicated that most Americans oppose the controversial project, which remains embroiled in litigation in federal court.
“There will never be another building like this built, that I can tell you,” Trump told reporters on a tour of the construction site earlier this week. Touting a string of corporate donors providing funds, he insisted: “This is a gift to the United States of America.”
 

Stephen Miller suggests 'innocent' rioters who attacked Capitol police on January 6 are 'owed' more than just $1.776bn by US taxpayers​

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, took three minutes of questions from reporters on Thursday.
He concluded by defending the $1.776bn in taxpayer funds the Trump administration set aside this week to compensate people who claim they were wrongly prosecuted by the federal government, apparently including the hundreds of violent rioters convicted of attacking police officers as they tried to get at lawmakers on January 6 2021 in a failed bid to keep Donald Trump in office after he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Miller was asked about the fact that there was significant pushback over the fund from lawmakers on Thursday, reportedly including 25 Republican senators who objcted to it during a nearly two-hour meeting on Thursday with Todd Blanche, Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer now serving as the acting attorney general.
“That’s a good closing question only because it allows me to say this, which is that the- we lived through four years of– more than four years, actually, but I’ll just say four years in this case, of unimaginable weaponization of the federal government against innocent people,” Miller said.
“We’ve had so many lives- it really goes back to, I would say, further, but so many lives destroyed, so many livelihoods ruined, so many people who were deprived of their fundamental rights and freedoms as American citizens. And this settlement is just a small measure of the justice that they are owed,” he continued.
Having delivered what seemed like his pre-scripted talking points, the influential adviser then immediately concluded the briefing, holding up his hands and saying “anyway, thank you all for your time”, and walking away before any follow-up questions could be asked.

Even in Greenland, the shadow of Jeffrey Epstein looms over Trump's ambitions​

As our colleague Miranda Bryant reports, hundreds of Greenlanders protested against the opening of a new US consulate in the island’s capital, Nuuk, on Thursday.
The protesters waved Greenlandic flags, held up signs that read “USA ASU” (“USA stop it” in the local Inuit language) and shouted “go home”, one day after Donald Trump’s envoy, Louisiana governor Jeff Landry, toured the capital trailed by a dogged protester who shouted at him: “Colonizer go home! You’re not welcome here! This is Indigenous land!”
Amid speculation that Trump has turned to foreign military adventures at least in part to change the subject from the uproar over his long friendship with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, photographs and video of the protest in Nuuk showed that Greenlanders were also keen to associate the US president with his friend of nearly two decades.
One pair of signs seen near the front of the march in video and photographs of the protest march featured a 1997 photograph of Trump smiling with his hand on Epstein’s shoulder as the two friends posed together at the future president’s Mar-a-Lago beach club.

 
Full Metal Junkie said:
US is currently busy with their Iran endeavors, they might just let the Cuban situation simmer there for a few months. But they are going to come back to it soon enough.
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Well, Trump admin got bored of the mess they created in the Middle East, so they're back on the quest of establishing complete hegemony over the Western hemisphere. As was expected, Cuba was always going to be next. It is about to get a taste of "Democracy" and "Liberty" via the USS Nimitz carrier strike group.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2057131106005090406

Here's a good summary of the latest whats happenings around Cuba including the grim details of the humanitarian crisis the oil embargo Cuba has caused:

 
thettctransitfanatic said:
There are rumours that following the firing of Pam Bondi, that Trump is considering also firing Tulsi Gabbard and possibly Kash Patel.
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Bye-bye!

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Good riddance. It was clear as day she was a Kremlin asset in charge of a national intelligence agency. Years later we might find out just how much damage was done under her.
 
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Bye-bye!

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Good riddance. It was clear as day she was a Kremlin asset in charge of a national intelligence agency. Years later we might find out just how much damage was done under her.
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What's crazy is she ran in the 2020 Democratic primary and 6 years ago was AGAINST a Iran war. Now she was serving under a Republican President who STARTED a Iran War, and said NOTHING about it. Goes to show you these people have NO principles at all! And that's before you get into the conspiracies this lady delved in....

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What's crazy is she ran in the 2020 Democratic primary
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DNC fielded any and all hot garbage candidates to stop Bernie. They threw all sorts of sh!t at the wall hoping that something would stick. Tulsi and Kamala were the fauxgressives they ran to split the progressive vote.

DNC would rather have someone like Tulsi lead the nation instead of letting actually popular grassroots politicians into the party. Remember that the next time you pin all you hopes on Demopcrats to fix anything in America.
 
He's back on the crazy Truth Social posts wagon again... thankfully nothing racist or inappropriate this time, but rather just deranged and bizarre and worrisome... clearly he seems to think a Golden Dome means some sort of forcefield around the White House or something and not for the military 🤣🤣

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