Question, whatever Elon Musk decides can be smashed from the federal budget - is that an actual command? Doesn't it have to be approved by /somebody/? Somebody as in Rubio, whichever cabinet member is over the area to be smashed, or Trump?
How exactly does this work?
Also, loos like RFK and Tulsi will make as both make it out of committee. Doubt more than 3 Rs vote them down.
CenterBHSFan wrote:Question, whatever Elon Musk decides can be smashed from the federal budget - is that an actual command? Doesn't it have to be approved by /somebody/? Somebody as in Rubio, whichever cabinet member is over the area to be smashed, or Trump?
How exactly does this work?
Now you are getting it.
Musk is making cuts on his own.
Right now there is zero oversight. Zero input from Congress or Congressional oversight.
Rubio is trying to play catch up on USAID and save face abroad and with allies.
Question, whatever Elon Musk decides can be smashed from the federal budget - is that an actual command? Doesn't it have to be approved by /somebody/? Somebody as in Rubio, whichever cabinet member is over the area to be smashed, or Trump?
How exactly does this work?
ptown_trojans_1 wrote:
Wow. You couldn't be wrong as usual.
I've been pretty consistent over the years, that I am not in favor of Executive overreach and wish Comgress would grow a spine and take back their oversight powers.
I've long detested the use of Executive Orders going back to Obama as I knew they were temporary and only band aides. Hell, I bashed Biden for his, especially on the student loan front. I have pretty consistent that only real change can come from Congress, to address immigration, budget reform, taxes, defense budget reform, SS, etc.
I would not be at all for what Musk is doing if it was from the Democratic President.
It is wild just one person can go in and just slash and gash whole departments and agencies without any oversight.
The Constitution is pretty damn clear on Article I and II.
It's obvious from your posts you do not understand how the federal budget and process works. That's ok, the media sucks at educating people about it.
You are purposely misconstruing all of this conversation. It all started because you did your interpretive dance called "Now I'm Going To Pretend To Give A Shit About The Constitution Being Ignored After All The Times I Sat Back And Comfortably Enjoyed The Show When The Dems And Intelligence Agencies Shat On It When They Hoaxed The American People and Engaged In Political Persecutions And Lawfare To Go After Trump".
You've since thrown in every detour you could think of because you really don't want to admit that your partisanship doesn't give a fuck about the Constitution as long as it's being ignored when it comes to something your partisanship aligns with.
Go lay down, jackass.
CenterBHSFan wrote:Question, whatever Elon Musk decides can be smashed from the federal budget - is that an actual command? Doesn't it have to be approved by /somebody/? Somebody as in Rubio, whichever cabinet member is over the area to be smashed, or Trump?
How exactly does this work?
You are purposely misconstruing all of this conversation. It all started because you did your interpretive dance called "Now I'm Going To Pretend To Give A Shit About The Constitution Being Ignored After All The Times I Sat Back And Comfortably Enjoyed The Show When The Dems And Intelligence Agencies Shat On It When They Hoaxed The American People and Engaged In Political Persecutions And Lawfare To Go After Trump".
You've since thrown in every detour you could think of because you really don't want to admit that your partisanship doesn't give a fuck about the Constitution as long as it's being ignored when it comes to something your partisanship aligns with.
Go lay down, jackass.
Not dancing. You are talking about two completely different things that have nothing to do with one branch grossly abusing their power.
Those examples you mention had both the Congress and President involved. There was oversight too.
There is nothing here.
Apples and oranges here.
ptown_trojans_1 wrote:
Wow. You couldn't be wrong as usual.
I've been pretty consistent over the years, that I am not in favor of Executive overreach and wish Congress would grow a spine and take back their oversight powers.
I've long detested the use of Executive Orders going back to Obama as I knew they were temporary and only band aides. Hell, I bashed Biden for his, especially on the student loan front. I have pretty consistent that only real change can come from Congress, to address immigration, budget reform, taxes, defense budget reform, SS, etc.
I would not be at all for what Musk is doing if it was from the Democratic President.
It is wild just one person can go in and just slash and gash whole departments and agencies without any oversight.
The Constitution is pretty damn clear on Article I and II.
It's obvious from your posts you do not understand how the federal budget and process works. That's ok, the media sucks at educating people about it.
Here he goes again! Anytime I point out where he is wrong or say something that he personally agreed with, I'm either naive or don't know how govt works lol
I'm not the one who can't admit that the Dems, including you, have ignored the Constitution for the past ten years.
And now I'm supposed to be shitting my pants because Elon Musk is slashing budgets.
Fuckin lame ass shit
ptown_trojans_1 wrote:
Not dancing. You are talking about two completely different things that have nothing to do with one branch grossly abusing their power.
Those examples you mention had both the Congress and President involved. There was oversight too.
There is nothing here.
Apples and oranges here.
Oversight is broken in this country.
Name me five presidents in the last 100 years who hasn't abused power in some form. I will wait.
You're still full of shit.
CenterBHSFan wrote:
Here he goes again! Anytime I point out where he is wrong or say something that he personally agreed with, I'm either naive or don't know how govt works lol
I'm not the one who can't admit that the Dems, including you, have ignored the Constitution for the past ten years.
And now I'm supposed to be shitting my pants because Elon Musk is slashing budgets.
Fuckin lame ass shit
Not 1 democratic President has done something this brazen and obviously unconstitutional. That's what you are not getting.
Edit to add FDR tried, but was blocked by Congress.
CenterBHSFan wrote:
Oversight is broken in this country.
Name me five presidents in the last 100 years who hasn't abused power in some form. I will wait.
You're still full of shit.
Only Nixon was doing something drastic.
Maybe Bush in his post 9-11 policies...
FDR tried, but hey Congress and the Courts blocked him.
ptown_trojans_1 wrote:
Only Nixon was doing something drastic.
Maybe Bush in his post 9-11 policies...
FDR tried, but hey Congress and the Courts blocked him.
I'm undersold.
Blue MAGA
CenterBHSFan wrote:
I'm undersold.
Blue MAGA
Blue Maga lol?
Offtopic but I'm listening to a Zelensky interview and he is saying that when Ukraine is able to keep all of its territory and the war is over that he will reinstate democracy to Ukraine.
He also brings up that he hasn't gotten all the money from the US that was supposed to have arrived before now. Tough shit!
Devils Advocate wrote:
That isn’t as clever as he thinks it is.
CenterBHSFan wrote:
Oversight is broken in this country.
Not sure it is broken, or that there just isn’t any oversight. And while the left is up in arms about what musk is doing, they couldn’t give less of a shit on the massive waste the cesspools have created.
How does disbanding these clubs improve the military or efficiency? Just more hate BS. And those who voted for him love it.
I'm going to guess that the government will not longer be paying for the resources for things like ethnic clubs. They can probably still have them and participate in them, just with their own resources.
Did I read that Trump has taken funding the cleanup and rebuilding of Gaza?
What?!
CenterBHSFan wrote:Did I read that Trump has taken funding the cleanup and rebuilding of Gaza?
What?!
Middle East Riviera
CenterBHSFan wrote:I'm going to guess that the government will not longer be paying for the resources for things like ethnic clubs. They can probably still have them and participate in them, just with their own resources.
"are not authorized to continue INFORMAL activities using government time, resources, or FACILITIES.” At military academies, underclassmen aren’t allowed to leave campus. So it is a true ban, at least for them.
CenterBHSFan wrote:Did I read that Trump has taken funding the cleanup and rebuilding of Gaza?
What?!
Runs on economy; gets in office and switches "lowering prices" out for "expanding the territory".
Heretic wrote:
Runs on economy; gets in office and switches "lowering prices" out for "expanding the territory".
Isn’t that technically “inflation”? How the hell is he gonna blame Joe for that?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw that for what it is!
Needless to say, I hate it. This should not be happening in any way.
First we the people have to fund the war between the Israelis and Palestinians and now we have to pay for cleanup and rebuild?!
Trump can fuck right off for this shit!
I saw his comments and laughed. Goes back to not really paying attention to what he says or taking it seriously. Sure enough, officials are backing off it today.
Of note, he also said he wants to talk to Iran about their nuclear program. Unclear if that happens or not.
If only there was a previous agreement in place......
ptown_trojans_1 wrote:I saw his comments and laughed. Goes back to not really paying attention to what he says or taking it seriously. Sure enough, officials are backing off it today.
Of note, he also said he wants to talk to Iran about their nuclear program. Unclear if that happens or not.
If only there was a previous agreement in place......
Are you talking about paying Iran?