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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.