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This could be the Mother of All Spending Strikes. The looming government shutdown is an opportunity to hold the Rat accountable and stop his atrocities, and the fascist takeover of the country. We, the People cannot easily withhold our tax dollars from the Rat, but the Dems in the Senate have that opportunity.
A U.S. president cannot spend money without an appropriation from Congress, which holds the "power of the purse".
Direct spending is prohibited.
Constitutional power: The Constitution's Appropriations Clause states, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law".
The Dems in the Senate must have a list of demands under which they would vote to keep the government running. Such as, the Congress sets tariffs, ICE only goes after violent convicted felons, no one is deported to a third party country, and so forth. And that willingness to fund the government would be on a week to week basis, to prevent the Rat from going back on his commitment.
If congress refuses to authorize appropriations, the Rat will not have money to operate his corrupt, inept, sadistic government. A chance for the Dems to prove they’re not the feckless cowards they’ve been up until now.
Millions of Americans are especially concerned about rising healthcare premiums, cuts to Medicare, and cuts to Medicaid and added burdens for Medicaid recipients - all key features of MAGA budgeting to serve the greed of billionaire donors and supplicants.
This is one powerful reason not to fund the regime unless changes are made to address the growing crisis in healthcare access and costs.
Thank you so much for your commentary. I value your input. But I may have to unsubscribe because so much of your content is video based. I know I can click abutton and then I can follow subtitles, but this approach does not help me. What happened to the written word? It seems to be lost in this media driven world. I so enjoyed opening my computer and reading the Times or Post, both of which I have cancelled, but this video based news is not working.
Since 2015, the orange convicted felon has finally done one thing on which I have to agree with him: making the cost of H1-B visas ($100,00 annual fee) more in line with what US companies would have to pay US citizen and already permanent resident highly skilled workers, instead of just paying a $250 annual fee and then paying H1-B visa holders only 60% of what they would have to pay US workers.
A couple of questions/requests (after expressing appreciation for all you are doing): 1) I would like for someone to look into my question of who is actually going to pay for the Mar-A-Lago-esque gauche ballroom that is going to be built at the White House. The Convicted Felon said he would pay for it. I would like documentation of that agreement. I DO NOT want to pay for it - it is neither in my budget nor anywhere near to my tastes. 2) With the normal human American in jeopardy of losing coverage for health insurance, either losing or finding it even more unaffordable, what are the benefits (health insurance, retirement, etc.) that we are paying for for our Congress people and those surrounding and including the Convicted Felon. Thank you. realize this is way off current talking points but I have not gotten answers from other sources about this. Thank you
This could be the Mother of All Spending Strikes. The looming government shutdown is an opportunity to hold the Rat accountable and stop his atrocities, and the fascist takeover of the country. We, the People cannot easily withhold our tax dollars from the Rat, but the Dems in the Senate have that opportunity.
A U.S. president cannot spend money without an appropriation from Congress, which holds the "power of the purse".
Direct spending is prohibited.
Constitutional power: The Constitution's Appropriations Clause states, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law".
The Dems in the Senate must have a list of demands under which they would vote to keep the government running. Such as, the Congress sets tariffs, ICE only goes after violent convicted felons, no one is deported to a third party country, and so forth. And that willingness to fund the government would be on a week to week basis, to prevent the Rat from going back on his commitment.
If congress refuses to authorize appropriations, the Rat will not have money to operate his corrupt, inept, sadistic government. A chance for the Dems to prove they’re not the feckless cowards they’ve been up until now.
Millions of Americans are especially concerned about rising healthcare premiums, cuts to Medicare, and cuts to Medicaid and added burdens for Medicaid recipients - all key features of MAGA budgeting to serve the greed of billionaire donors and supplicants.
This is one powerful reason not to fund the regime unless changes are made to address the growing crisis in healthcare access and costs.
Thank you so much for your commentary. I value your input. But I may have to unsubscribe because so much of your content is video based. I know I can click abutton and then I can follow subtitles, but this approach does not help me. What happened to the written word? It seems to be lost in this media driven world. I so enjoyed opening my computer and reading the Times or Post, both of which I have cancelled, but this video based news is not working.
Since 2015, the orange convicted felon has finally done one thing on which I have to agree with him: making the cost of H1-B visas ($100,00 annual fee) more in line with what US companies would have to pay US citizen and already permanent resident highly skilled workers, instead of just paying a $250 annual fee and then paying H1-B visa holders only 60% of what they would have to pay US workers.
would a contrarian have email addresses that go to someone who reads them to protest to ABC and Disney?
A couple of questions/requests (after expressing appreciation for all you are doing): 1) I would like for someone to look into my question of who is actually going to pay for the Mar-A-Lago-esque gauche ballroom that is going to be built at the White House. The Convicted Felon said he would pay for it. I would like documentation of that agreement. I DO NOT want to pay for it - it is neither in my budget nor anywhere near to my tastes. 2) With the normal human American in jeopardy of losing coverage for health insurance, either losing or finding it even more unaffordable, what are the benefits (health insurance, retirement, etc.) that we are paying for for our Congress people and those surrounding and including the Convicted Felon. Thank you. realize this is way off current talking points but I have not gotten answers from other sources about this. Thank you