How do we fix Social Security? If we lifted the payroll tax cap to ensure everyone pays their fair share, Social Security would be solvent for decades.
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire, but he pays the same into social security that a teacher does. Pay your fair share.
Here’s an in-depth New York Times article on how Trump, his family, and his cronies are abusing their government power to line their pockets and using billions of your tax dollars to facilitate their grifting. Note that the $8.9 billion in federal money going to the 14 Trump and Lutnick companies is equal to the entire amount of federal assistance Western North Carolina has received for Hurricane Helene recovery.
Rampant corruption in plain sight . . . and Republicans see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.
Here’s an excerpt from the article and a free link to the entire piece:
“Ahead of the deal, the Trump administration approved preliminary applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing for the American company, now called Kaz Resources, which plans to break ground on the project in rural Kazakhstan.
It was not only Mr. Trump and Mr. Lutnick who saw an opportunity.
Their sons were soon doing business with partners in a deal that their fathers were negotiating, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration that has few precedents in American history.”
. . . . .
“One or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies that are actively working with the federal government on critical mining deals, including the Kazakhstan project, according to federal filings examined by The New York Times.
All 14 of these companies have either benefited directly from offers of financial assistance from the Trump administration, or have pending permit applications before the Commerce Department, which Mr. Lutnick oversees, The Times found. The total amount of federal funding that the Trump administration has provided or is considering providing to the companies exceeds $8.9 billion, according to public statements by the companies and federal government.”
https://t.co/HvoK9qva0H
Nobles: "There's no evidence that fraudulent votes have changed any election outcomes. Are you trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist?"
Marshall: "Americans don't feel that the elections are trustworthy."
Nobles: "Part of the problem is that President Trump keeps accusing election systems of not being fair and not being secure, but there's no actual evidence of that."
I shall repeat: if Haberman and Swan do indeed have secret recordings from WH meetings in the Situation Room and they didn’t break news and they are sitting on them for the purpose of publishing a book, this shows complete dereliction of duty as journalists and zero integrity.
Let's be real. There is no such thing as voter fraud (nothing significant that would ever raise an eyebrow). The Republicans need a way to keep people from voting. Because, if everyone votes, the Republicans can't win.
Dear MAGA,
If Democrats cheated, Republicans wouldn't hold the presidency, the House and the Senate right now.
Also, Hillary would have won.
Hope that helps. 🇺🇸
Trump was actually 17-18 in this photo. His parents sent him to a military boarding school for behavioral issues & bullying. Now he uses the photo to pretend he was in the military.
As a geologist, I’ll translate: the White House demolished a perfectly fine, historic walkway and replaced it with expensive granite.
Americans want cheaper gas and groceries, and Trump keeps wasting your money on vanity projects.
The Constitution is NOT optional.
The Constitution is NOT optional.
The Constitution is NOT optional.
The Constitution is NOT optional.
The Constitution is NOT optional.
America 250 was going to be like a World Fair that would have attracted millions of people.
But Trump stole the money, denied permits, & renamed it Freedom 250 so he could make it all about himself & Republicans.
Trump stole America's Birthday from you! 🤬
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security.
Will you join me?🤚
Attention ABC and CBS: This is how you handle it when a fascist is pushing you around. You don’t cave in, fire people, cancel shows, and give him loads of cash to make him leave you alone. You fucking fight back.
#BREAKING: Lawrence: “…@SenBillCassidy, who said yesterday he could NOT be bullied by Donald Trump, was successfully bullied by Donald Trump into switching his vote as was @SenRandPaul, the faux libertarian member of the Senate who now thinks Donald Trump should be allowed a free hand in waging a foreign war without congressional authorization, something Rand Paul did not think until Donald Trump YELLED at him yesterday. These…are the cowardly lions, and they are succumbing to the most cowardly lion of all the Republican cowardly lions, Donald Trump himself.”😳😂
Sometimes you have to back up a little bit and think about what things really mean: The top priority of the Trump-led Republican Party is to keep Democrats from voting. That’s their most important policy position right now.