6mo ago

A Trump Executive Order has paused federal payouts on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs and Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, including allocated funds.

www.politico.com

Just a moment...

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Some said it also implies that Trump, who has threatened to defy decades of accepted law by blocking congressionally approved spending, could go even further — by refusing to honor contracts in which the federal government promised funding for states, cities and other recipients.
Who knew that this guy, who left campaign bills unpaid all over the country, would refuse to pay the government's bills?
- It's very fitting that this loops
- I'm sure he'll keep finding ways to pay himself, though.
- Here’s the thing, at some point he violates so much of the constitution, the document that grants him authority, that he shouldn’t be recognized as in charge. We the people give him the authority.
  
  I don't think you know who your neighbors are
"Some GOP senators who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure law said they hope Trump’s action wouldn’t stop the flow of infrastructure money to their states and local communities."
American GOP senators: "So like, yeah, fuck the blue states. They can definitely go fuck themselves. My state though, we're TrUe PaTrIoTs so we deserve the money."
I thought this was the very thing the GOP said the Executive Branch can't do when they blocked student loan forgiveness.
- That was different. See the people trying to do that had D's next to their names.
- I wonder if even some red states would stop paying as a result. I can't imagine Ohio and Pennsylvania being ecstatic about propping up the Mississipi, Alabama, etc. after California, Illinois, etc. stop footing the bill.
- 3 years and 9 1/2 months from today, at the latest.
- Stop paying interest on government debt, I double dog dare you
Damn, it apparently still isn't infrastructure week.
- I'm having trouble seeing this as anything other than burning dollars to look for pennies.
  Oh, and taking over Congress' role over the U.S. Government pursestrings.
  
  Then it's a win for conservatives. They burn dollars, we get pennies. And he has to scrounge up the billions needed for his mass deportation scheme which would probably impact labor for some of the projects so another win. No bitching about a missing labor force due to mass deportations.
  Big double awesome bacon cheeseburger AR15 American flag win for conservatives....^if ^you ^squint ^really ^hard.
We're going to need a dramatic expansion of the Court of Claims to handle all of this assholery.

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