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#budget

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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Call your senators, GOP or Dem, call them and tell them to vote NO on this travesty.

"In reality, this is a hastily arranged partisan Republican #budget that ... doesn’t just tilt spending in a far-right direction, it actually abdicates congressional responsibility as the branch of #government that makes federal spending decisions."
-David Dayen
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Headline, screen shots of two headlines and text from articles. Headline: If feckless Democrats cave on the budget... screen shot headline: Senate Democrats’ Choice: Block the Republican Spending Bill or Dissolve Congress The House’s continuing resolution would effectively hand over spending decisions to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The American Prospect, David Dayen Text: In reality, this is a hastily arranged partisan Republican budget that achieves much of their anti-government, anti-immigrant, pro-military agenda while paving the way for Trump to nullify whatever spending he deems unworthy. It doesn’t just tilt spending in a far-right direction, it actually abdicates congressional responsibility as the branch of government that makes federal spending decisions. Yet several Senate Democrats are thinking about passing it anyway. Screen shot headline: Here Are the Arguments for Why Senate Ds Should Vote Yes and Why They’re Wrong Over the last week a few TPM Readers have written in with… TPM – Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall Text: The public is already visibly turning against what’s happening. We have lots of evidence for that. Democrats have this one chance to bring the matter to a head, increase the attention on something the public is already angry about. They need to take a real risk in order to change or at least slow the trajectory of the destruction.
#Resist#Resistance#Trump
azteclady
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U.S. Politics, budget, urgent call to action

#CallToAction

Call your senators, especially Democrats, and tell them to vote NO on cloture and on the Republican spending bills; the proposed budget would DEVASTATE millions--including you, eventually, as that shit ripples through the economy.

#USPolitics#Budget
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"Musk & his advisers... did not want to create a #commission, as past #budget hawks had done. They wanted direct, insider access to #government systems. They realized they could use the #digital office, whose staff had been focused on helping agencies fix #technology problems, to quickly penetrate the federal govt — and then decipher how to break it apart."
#GiftLink
nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/poli

Text from article: Seasoned conservative operatives like Stephen Miller and Russell Vought helped educate Mr. Musk about the workings of the bureaucracy. Soon, he stumbled on an opening. It was a little-known unit with reach across the government: the U.S. Digital Service, which President Barack Obama created in 2014 after the botched rollout of healthcare.gov. Mr. Musk and his advisers — including Steve Davis, a cost cutter who worked with him at X and other companies — did not want to create a commission, as past budget hawks had done. They wanted direct, insider access to government systems. They realized they could use the digital office, whose staff had been focused on helping agencies fix technology problems, to quickly penetrate the federal government — and then decipher how to break it apart. They would call it the U.S. DOGE Service, and they would not even have to change the initials. They began their move on the digital service unit earlier than has previously been reported, The Times found, while President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was still in office — giving them the ability to operate on Mr. Trump’s first day.
#ElonMusk#Musk#StephenMiller
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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Elon Musk Splits Republican Party Further on Reconciliation Bill
newrepublic.com/post/191943/mi

"“If the Republican budget passes, the deficit gets worse, not better,” #MAGA cheerleader Rep Thomas Massie wrote Monday on X.

“That sounds bad,” #ElonMusk replied... leaving the #budget in a precarious, vote-lacking position.

The weight of a three-word X reply from the... unelected civilian seriously irked some members of the #Republican Party"

Headline: Elon Musk Splits Republican Party Further on Reconciliation Bill House Speaker Mike Johnson was already struggling to unite his party behind the measure. by Malcolm Ferguson February 25, 2025 / 11:48 a.m. ET
#Musk#Coup#Trump
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