Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use “every available tool” to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including “withholding administrative funds from states” for the first time in history.
There is no single national program for unemployment support, though the federal government partners with state agencies to support temporary financial assistance to out-of-work Americans. Nearly 2 million people are currently receiving those benefits, while roughly 229,000 people are filing initial jobless claims every week, according to the Labor Department.
And still the population will sit behind their screens with their keyboards and sgare a few memes and generally be pissed off and oh look its the next scandal and they population will sit behind their screens and generally be pissed off and oh look its the next scandal of the week…
Alexa what is a “distraction?”
He’s gotta do something to pay Iran 300b.
Jokes on them, it’s basically impossible to get unemployment here to start with.
president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
Projection much, huh?
Also privilege, Republicans see themselves as privileged, it’s not fraud when they do it, they are allowed, it’s fraud when others without sufficient privilege do it.
pls no, this would make the crime rate skyrocket
That’s what the federal cabal wants.
What the fuck are they trying to do? Why would they wanna destabilize the country?
Peter Thiel and a bunch of the other billionaires want to carve the US up into city states, they’re not particularly secretive about it either. The point is to destroy the country
It’s a quiet revolution most aren’t even aware is going on
Is there any literature on this?
Project 2025.
Because in its an excuse to send in soldiers, try to justify martial law, suspend elections, and otherwise drag the country deeper into authoritarianism. It’s not quite a dictatorship yet, after all.
Does that equal an amount intended for ballrooms or Iran?
An actual traitor president and it looks like we’re just gonna ride it out with our fingers crossed.
Hahaha, do it. I’ll get the pop corn.
Bro this is the most boring shit ever, trump does something crazy half the judges say it’s fine half say it’s not and we go back and forth until the next stupid scandal takes over the headlines
Seems to buzz people everytime.
Have to imagine this will disproportionately hurt red states and then they’ll blame it on Obama or Biden or something. Really hoping some state will withhold federal taxes but I know our leaders are too spineless for that :[
If you take the top 10 states by unemployment rate, half of them are red states. Top 20, almost 3/4.
California funds its own unemployment benefits, of course Trump is too stupid to know this.
It says they will take funding from states that don’t comply with their bullshit so I’m sure the red states will be fine
Then, magically unemployment will go down and they’ll call it a success. Even though all that’s happened are fewer people qualifying for unemployment, and more than likely it will result in a net increase in unemployed people.
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There’s not really a mechanism for withholding federal taxes
Sounds like something easy to fix, just don’t pay them
What he wants:
- desperate people who work for scraps
- riots, so he can call in the military and call off the election
What he (hopefully) gets:
- a revolution
Seriously, why aren’t billionaire villas burning? Why is Mar-a-Lagos still standing? I’m surprised how much the American people are willing to endure.
Armed revolution results in U.S. military drone strikes on blue states. I am not joking. This is Pete Hegseth’s handpicked military; they’re waiting for a revolution to crush.
I’m not necessarily saying a revolution should or shouldn’t happen, but you should absolutely be aware of the circumstances on topics like these. Plus, people have tried to attack the president. So many times that it’s seemed for a while that these are selected shooters. They’ve all failed thus far.
I’m surprised how much the American people are willing to endure.
At this point I’m convinced we’re the weakest generation of Americans in American history. And the fact that our history really isn’t very long doesn’t help make that feel any better.
Oh, just book a trip to Florida and burn down Mar-a-Lago. Why hadn’t I thought of that before?
Have you seen the French protest?
Surely no one will gun you down within 200 yards.
If they start shooting protesters things will escalate. That’s how civil wars start.
But by now, everyone either knows or refuses to acknowledge that the President is a notorious pedophile.
A sudden spike in unemployment followed by waves of debt default, foreclosure, and police actions on the unemployed would seem to be the more pressing issue.
This just feels like the Iran “Today’s bombing a girl’s school distracts from who the President was fucking in 1997” Epstein War bullshit.
A sudden spike in unemployment followed by waves of debt default, foreclosure, and police actions on the unemployed would seem to be the more pressing issue.
He certainly doesn’t think so from all the redactions to the disclosures to Congress and the sweetheart deal he gave Maxwell (the co-conspirator who is still in prison today for the crimes he committed and advances).
Today’s bombing a girl’s school distracts from who the President was fucking in 1997.
He had Epstein killed just 10 years ago, and there is no statute of limitations on murder.
Also, its not just him. He’s surrounded by the Epstein class who all went in on raping children together.
He had Epstein killed just 10 years ago
The line of people who potentially greenlit Epstein’s murder goes down the road and around the block.
Not that it matters, because pedophilia is apparently legal - even encouraged - at this point in US history.
Also, its not just him.
That’s been the joke of all these “Release the Epstein Files” folks tossing aside the orgy of evidence on the grounds that “it’s not enough”. We have a rogue’s gallery of Epstein associates who remain untouchable. And the “Release” folks keep pretending there’s some extra bit of evidence that’s been held back that will finally bring the cops in to arrest everyone.
It’s a fantasy. Just like the Mueller Report shit libs were hung up on in 2019. Nobody is coming to arrest the President or any of his close confidants. No organized agency is coming for the billionaire class. There is no secret kabal waiting for that next shoe to drop. There is no X-Files esque revelation that’s going to bring about societal change that we haven’t already all passed around on social media.
“Lets do something fast and stupid so they stop talking about me starting and losing a war.”
If they remember that, they remember I started the war to distract from my child prostitution ring.
Check me if I’m wrong but the only thing he can cut is the administration funding. The actual benefits are funded by a type of insurance companies pay into. Trump can’t take that away.
All this will do is make processing claims a bitch.He’s such a dick.
I dunno if you’ve noticed, but he can do anything he wants because there’s no opposition.
the “fraud” starts and ends at the oval office. investigate that s.o.b. first.
Thats not true. My state governor is also a criminal and is grifting on a state level too…
Beating the wife and the kids at home when he got his ass kicked at the pub.
Sadistic bully looking for a pick-me-up.
