Trump freezes ALL federal grants!

your ukraine argument is typical of the american right dating back to lindbergh. save a buck now and concede terrtitory/countries so when we get brought in the war it's global and super expensive.

we're fighting in ukraine to bleed the russians and because if not there, it will soon be poland, or latvia, or far eastern germany, or about anyplace that was commie during the cold war. because the people intermixed, and the land is fairly flat, you can always pout that Your People though technically just the other side of a legal border, have been "abused" by, say, having to learn the language of the country they live in. the soviets tended to colonize their neighbors when they took over so there are always some russian minorities to look after next door. same crap the nazis pulled.

but anyhow, it's amusing to listen to the party that thinks guns and machismo are the answer to fear in our country, think negotiation and retreat somehow works abroad.

Incredible zinger. Do checks and balances next!

Well, why should I support democracy when the left just does whatever they want? Have Trump act the same way

This is not our fight...It's Europe's fight. We are 33 trillion in debt and sending hundreds of billions to Ukraine has to end soon...The experts say it's a stalemate and Ukraine cannot win...This cannot go on forever.

people who cry like babies during adult discussions should be at the child's table. scatter off.

he lacks the constitutional or legislative power to do what he is doing. he can't not spend money congress sends him. we already sorted this about ukrainian aid when he tried to blackmail them about biden his first term. but i guess you're only constitutionalists when in power.

and then he's doing 20 stupid things and basically taking a hammer to things he does not understand. states need federal help to afford local health care. states need federal help for disaster aid. students rely on federal financial aid to pay for school. on and on.

and then, to be clear, the line item veto is illegal, and he can't just do the practical equivalent and decide which congressional powers he likes or not, which is really a smokescreen for Do Whatever.

it's not a dictatorship. we do not have to swear allegiance to work in government -- or at least shouldn't.

the basic part you're confused about is if you rewind the clock to 2014 what started this all was the ukrainian people wanted to join EU and eventually NATO, and got rid of their russian puppet leaders.

i bring this up because NATO is either Real or Not. if NATO is not real then the neo-soviets will start rolling the tanks towards central europe.

people from the b-school should not be doing foreign policy. everything is not a budget line item to be trimmed and outsourced. some things are if we don't stop this here, at moderate expense, we will do it later, further across europe, at much greater expense.

GOP antipathy to NATO and european security is basically the childlike desire to cut budget lines and hope we can outsource european foreign policy to them, which hundreds of years of wars and 2 world wars within 150 years should say is stupid. we are there because that expense of a proxy conflict is a lot cheaper in blood or treasure than a full blown shoot em up in france and germany, or watching the pretend churchillians prove to be appeasers.

but then most GOP don't know it was labour votes that saved churchill from negotiated surrender; the 2 other tories in the war cabinet wanted to talk terms. comes down to it, y'all cave, then rewrite history after.

i want the bunch of fake GOP constitutionalists to show me where in the constitution or congressional laws it says the president can ignore what everything written says, do whatever, ignore grants passed by congress, shut down cabinet departments that law says have to exist, etc.

like i said, this is basically the line item veto re-cast as presidential diktat.

the media is so half-a$$ed it's still discussing this as individual policies/stories and not an overall constitutional crisis week 2. there is a thing called rule of law. it's not government by what trump says.

among the things that went down as the grant pause was planned, was the portal for headstart. which is a highly popular government subsidized child care program. your kid gets some education and looked after. you get to work.

it would be typical of the blind throwing around of a sledgehammer to see that as cost item block grant and not something that helps the present and future work force, and keeps your businesses running.

Are you sure they're still going to be teaching history?

one hopes that the supreme court factored trump into their scheme to alter the legal landscape this year, as they will likely spend a lot of their time hearing urgent presidential shenanigans cases instead of their planned docket.

not unlike trump's 2020 riot games undermining congress's attempt to get him in by means of objecting to electors, one set of republican schemers has likely destructively interfered with the plans of another set of plotters.

I agree with you, but what is stopping Trump from doing things that are illegal. I doubt there would be enough votes to remove him from office if he started a war .

No doubt. Just like when he made sure to print his giant signature feces all over the Covid relief checks. He had nothing to do with any of that, but he made sure he got to put his name on them, like the little kid who "helped" mommy with a big project around the house.

Then do it anyway. Trump doesn’t need to abide by it. Let the courts try to stop it

I hate to spoil your little dictator party, but in America, he kind of does need to.

Actually, it’s Israel’s fight as bizarre as that may seem at first. Do a research deep dive to see what’s really going on. The US shouldn’t be concerned about the Ukraine at all.

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im a farmer. in actual reality i make pennies per an hour for my work. i have to plan my business months if not years in advance. i was approved for a grant that was to be rewarded starting in the spring 2025-2027 and have already made changes and investments to adjust to these changes. if this progam gets axed because biden attached climate language to the grant i will never forgive the republicans. screw the current low IQ administration who thinks environmental responsibility is a culture war revenge issue rather than how basic polluted water and air costs me huge amounts of money. i dont understand why the republicans politicians hate american farmers and why when useless BS like AI can get 500 billion dollars, someone who makes food keeps getting f'ed over.