Carter and Trump are as opposite as they come. Carter spent decades building homes for those in need, helping the poor, teaching Bible school and living modestly with his loving wife until the day he died. Trump was raised on a silver spoon, spent his time socializing with the rich, cheating on all his wives, stiffing people for money, golfing at his luxury resort, flying around in his private luxury jet, and selling bibles with his name on them to make a profit.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk has long railed against the U.S. government, saying a crushing number of federal investigations and safety programs have stymied Tesla, his electric car company, and its efforts to create fleets of robotaxis and other self-driving automobiles... https://apnews.com/article/musk-tru...ac541e4f699c5ac?taid=67ab4652a604de0001be8a79
Safety doesn't matter to him. Environmental waste doesn't matter to him. Come on now. Those things cut into his profits. People are expendable.
If you are a crook and a hustler and you commit a crime, trump is your bff as long as you bend the knee
FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding WASHINGTON — A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. In an email with the subject line “URGENT: Holds on awards,” Stacey Street, the director of the agency’s Office of Grant Administration, told her team to freeze funding for grant programs going back several years, including those focused on emergency preparedness, homeland security, firefighting, protecting churches from terrorism and tribal security. "For all awards FY23 and prior: put financial holds on all of your awards — all open awards, all years (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)," Street wrote, using the shorthand "FY" for fiscal year. NBC News obtained screenshots of the email from a recipient, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal. "There's a lot of people who are running scared and trying to appease [the new administration]," the recipient said. "This is a violation of the court order." Street did not immediately return a request for comment. Earlier Monday, U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell had said the Trump administration continued to implement a White House memo — which has since been rescinded — blocking federal grant programs despite his directive restraining the implementation of that order. Public servants across federal agencies now find themselves caught between President Donald Trump's executive orders and federal judges who have blocked them — at least temporarily — until the courts can more fully determine whether the president has exceeded his legal authority. They face firing by the Trump administration if they defy him and potential legal sanctions if they don't. These officials are at the ground level of a potential constitutional crisis in which Trump is claiming expansive powers that test traditional limits on the president's authority and could circumscribe the roles of Congress and the courts. Four FEMA officials were fired Tuesday. Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, declined to name the four officials. When asked why they were let go, McLaughlin referred to New York grants. "Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants," McLaughlin wrote to NBC News. "Under President Trump and Secretary Noem's leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people." FEMA is the latest target of Elon Musk, the billionaire Trump adviser who runs the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk and his team turned their focus to FEMA over the weekend, according to an official at the agency. By Monday, Musk posted on X his view that FEMA had broken the law by continuing to fund a temporary housing program for noncitizen migrants awaiting adjudication of their cases — claiming that $59 million had been illegally spent in recent weeks on luxury digs for migrants. “Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order,” Musk wrote. “That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals!” The Shelter and Services Program is a joint venture between FEMA and Customs and Border Protection, which does not have its own infrastructure for administering grant programs. The $59 million sum is part of a larger pot of funds awarded to New York last year for the program. The average cost of a night's stay at a hotel was $156 for migrant families sheltered by the program, compared with the roughly $400-a-night cost of a hotel stay in New York. In a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump said the entire emergency-management agency should be shuttered. "FEMA spent tens of millions of dollars in Democrat areas, disobeying orders, but left the people of North Carolina high and dry," he wrote. "It is now under review and investigation. THE BIDEN RUN FEMA HAS BEEN A DISASTER. FEMA SHOULD BE TERMINATED! IT HAS BEEN SLOW AND TOTALLY INEFFECTIVE. INDIVIDUAL STATES SHOULD HANDLE STORMS, ETC., AS THEY COME. BIG SAVINGS, FAR MORE EFFICIENT!!!" McLaughlin declined to answer whether Noem recognizes the legitimacy of federal courts or had any comment on FEMA officials reordering a freeze on grant programs after the judge said money should flow. Addressing the broader question of the Trump administration's stance toward judges who have temporarily blocked his executive orders, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the president will ultimately prevail. "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump," Leavitt said. "The White House will continue to fight these battles in court, and we expect to be vindicated. The President has every right to exercise his executive authority on behalf of the American people, who gave him a historic mandate to govern on November 5th." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...s-judge-order-freeze-grant-funding-rcna191674
link will work for everyone https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-ther...a?st=PaU6YA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Is There a Constitutional Crisis? Trump’s actions are aggressive, but they aren’t an executive coup. By The Editorial Board Feb. 11, 2025 at 5:44 pm ET Well, that was fast. The same people who predicted Donald Trump would be a dictator now say a “constitutional crisis” has already arrived, barely three weeks into his Presidency. They’re overwrought as usual, and readers may appreciate a less apocalyptic breakdown about Mr. Trump’s actions and whether they do or don’t breach the normal checks and balances. Mr. Trump’s domestic-policy decisions so far strike us as falling into three categories. Most rest on strong legal ground. Some are legally debatable and could go either way in court. In still others Mr. Trump appears to be breaking current law deliberately to tee up cases that will go to the Supreme Court to restore what he considers to be constitutional norms. None of these is a constitutional crisis. *** The first category includes the Administration’s decision to pause discretionary spending to ensure it complies with the President’s priorities. Democratic state Attorneys General say this is illegal, and Judge John McConnell on Monday agreed. The Administration is appealing, and judges can’t force a President to spend money that Congress has left to his discretion. Most of these spending programs don’t include concrete disbursement deadlines. If Mr. Trump is violating the law, so was the Biden Administration, which delayed disbursing grants under the 2021 infrastructure bill and 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to review applications and attach conditions. What Mr. Trump is doing is no different. Government unions are challenging Mr. Trump’s buyout offers for federal workers on grounds that Congress hasn’t funded them, but this doesn’t make them illegal per se. If Mr. Trump later doesn’t pay these workers, they could sue in federal claims court. Unions are also challenging Mr. Trump’s Schedule F reform, which removes civil-service protections for some high-ranking career employees. Here, too, Mr. Trump is on strong legal ground. The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 exempts positions “determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character.” Mr. Trump has expanded these exempt positions to employees who supervise investigations, develop regulations and exercise power under an agency’s discretion. Congress has expanded the discretion of agencies such that federal workers now boast far more power than they did 50 years ago. A President should be able to hold them accountable for performance to ensure laws are faithfully executed. A second category are decisions on more debatable legal ground, such as effectively dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and U.S. Agency for International Development. Congress established these agencies and it would have to act to eliminate them. Less clear is whether a President can order employees to cease doing their jobs. Harvard law professor Hal Scott recently argued in these pages that the CFPB is operating illegally because Congress funded the agency with earnings from the Federal Reserve. Because the Fed has incurred losses since September 2022, Mr. Scott says the bureau should close unless Congress appropriates money for it. This argument is plausible. As for USAID, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the Administration’s plans to wind down its operations to have more time to consider the merits. Many Administration actions raise novel legal questions. This bucket also includes whether employees with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency can obtain access to Treasury payment systems. Mr. Trump is stretching laws to see what he can get away with, but so have other recent Presidents. Barack Obama touted his pen-and-a-phone strategy of ruling by decree. “So sue me,” he taunted House Republicans. The Supreme Court blocked his Clean Power Plan and DAPA, which protected millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. Joe Biden exceeded his power by canceling student loans, mandating vaccines and banning evictions, among other overreaches. After the Supreme Court blocked his first loan write-off, he declared “that didn’t stop me” and used other illegal means. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals last year rebuked his Administration for turning a lower-court injunction on his SAVE plan into a “nullity.” The third category of Trump actions are clear violations of current law with a goal of inviting legal challenges to get to the Supreme Court. This includes his order barring birthright citizenship, and another dismissing a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. Trump believes he’ll win on both issues because he thinks previous Supreme Court rulings were wrongly decided. *** Mr. Trump may be wrong, but there is no constitutional crisis as the cases make their way through the courts. Liberals are flogging a recent tweet by JD Vance that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” But even liberal judges agree with this in principle as they interpret the proper separation of constitutional powers. The real crisis would come if Mr. Trump defies a Supreme Court ruling. If that happens, and it could, the left may wish it hadn’t squandered its credibility by crying wolf so often about crises that didn’t exist. Readers can relax in the meantime. Appeared in the February 12, 2025, print edition as 'Is There a Constitutional Crisis?'.
This is what criminals and corrupt dictator types do. Eliminate all your investigators and the whistleblowers. Greed is an evil thing when you don't care what laws you break to get what you want, or how many lives are harmed in the process, and Trump and Musk are two of the greediest men on earth.
General, it is you that is the dipshit moron. I'll give you kudos, you are a very consistent alt / troll account on here.
Your mom made me breakfast in bed this morning. I threw the runny eggs in her face ala James Cagney’s style and told her to try again. I also told your mom if she speaks to you, I told her to tell you that I said hi and get the hell off the D&D because you suck. Lol
