@MarioJalivg8@RealTomPowellJr Republican Congresspeople did what Trump told them, don’t negotiate! And they shut down the government both times but blamed it on the Democrats!
@MarioJalivg8@RealTomPowellJr The GOP cut Medicaid, Medicare, Affordable Care subsidies, Food stamps, free/reduced school meals, food bank help, Head Start, ETC., and limited HUD housing to 2 years! ALL the Democrats tried getting the cuts of subsidies for Affordable Care AND cuts to MEDICAID reversed!
@MarioJalivg8@RealTomPowellJr Get your facts straight! No Democrat voted for the horrific Big Beautiful Bill! Congressional Republicans passed it all by themselves! Republicans gave their rich donors massive tax cuts that will add $4 TRILLION to the national debt over 10 years!
@MarioJalivg8@RealTomPowellJr The Democrat Progressives don’t take donations from corporations or the rich and AOC also doesn’t take them from PACs. She’s still paying off her college debt.
BREAKING: Trump overrules his own Coast Guard and orders 11 giant Arctic icebreakers just because Russia has more – leaving taxpayers holding the multi-billion dollar bag!
Donald Trump reportedly ignored his own Coast Guard experts and ordered the purchase of 11 massive Arctic icebreakers after getting obsessed with the fact that Russia has a bigger fleet, according to a new New York Times investigation.
The Coast Guard’s most recent assessment said the country only needs four or five heavy icebreakers.
Admiral Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard commandant, told the Times straight up: “The number 11 came directly from the president. This was the president’s number and the president’s decision.”
The Times notes the deal was born as much out of Trump's personal enthusiasm as military planning. After a round of golf with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Trump reportedly called him late one night and announced he no longer wanted one used icebreaker.
He wanted an entire fleet of brand-new ones instead.
The ships alone are expected to cost nearly $7 billion. The administration also bypassed normal competitive bidding by invoking a rarely used “public interest” exemption so the contracts could move forward without competing bids.
And here’s the kicker: while they found billions to buy the ships, there is no plan yet to pay for the crews, ports, maintenance, and infrastructure needed to actually operate them – costs that could run into billions more.
Where did the money come from? The administration redirected billions from the Republican spending law’s border security funding after Trump decided he wanted more ships than Congress had originally approved.Trump has never hidden his reasoning:
“We only have one,” he complained during his first term. “Russia has 40.”
Experts note that comparison is nonsense. Russia has a far larger Arctic population and relies on icebreakers to keep northern ports open year-round. The United States has completely different needs.
Even the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is sounding the alarm likening the Coast Guard to “a lottery winner who spends all their money buying the mansion, and then goes broke once they realize they don’t have the money to maintain it.”
This is a perfect example of Trump’s government-by-fiat: decide he wants the biggest, the most, or more than the other guy – then leave everyone else to figure out how to pay for it, staff it, and make it work.
The man is treating the national budget like his personal toy store. If Trump’s ego-driven $7 billion icebreaker shopping spree has you seething, like and share this post.
Eminem & daughter Hailie just erased $700K in school lunch debt across 103 schools in Michigan! No child hungry, no shame. 🙏
While billionaires buy yachts, Slim Shady quietly paid debts for thousands of kids. This is how you use fame — compassion over clout! Real hero! 💛📚
@nicksortor Look at the corruption section if nothing else! Trump has made $4 Billion so far in this presidency from all his blatant corruption! He could he lose money bc his son’s ran the company with his help! Plus a lot of governments, WH & his dept heads booked parties at his hotels.
@nicksortor He’s LYING as usual. His sons run his businesses while he’s POTUS instead of putting them in escrow. Pres Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm, every president went by US emoluments clause to have no conflicts of interest. We are seeing now exactly why emoluments clause existed.
@Delila1776@NobodymrRobert@nicksortor All of you still clinging to Trump & MAGA are idiots! You don’t even realize half the Republicans have jumped ship. The Independents have more membership than Democrats and Republicans are LAST!
@nicksortor We are on the verge of losing our country NOW to Trump AND Heritage Foundation and the Republican Party’s fascism and all of you are too ignorant to see it or acknowledge it!
No other president in history but Donald:
▪️Got SCOTUS to officially make him above the law.
▪️Got the IRS to officially allow him to never pay taxes.
▪️Got the DOJ to pay millions to anyone who committed a crime in his holy name.
▪️Started a war purely to distract from his predatorial past.
▪️Surrendered to a foreign nation and that nation didn't except it.
▪️Lost an election but never ever conceded do to fragility.
▪️Fast asleep in 80% of meetings.
▪️Is loathed by 77% of the country and 99.9% of those who graduated high school.
▪️Intellectually, morally and structurally destroyed the white house.
▪️Single-handedly turned us into a lawless 3rd world country that can't win a war, can't have a fair election, can't have clean air, can't have modern medicine, can't have democracy, and can't have one goddamn building without his name, or one minute without his posts as Jesus, Gladiator, Lifeguard, or Elvis.
▪️In 250 years, millions have died for this country, and one bitter clown undid it all.