Trump using rare power to revoke expenditure with bipartisan approval to aid immigrant services

Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1bn in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives.

Trump’s office of management and budget described the funding cut as focused on “the most harmful government spending”.

Most of the cuts are focused on services for immigrants, including non-profits that serve refugees and unaccompanied minors accused of being in the country illegally. The administration says the funds are no longer necessary because illegal border crossings have diminished considerably.

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[–] 8 points 11 hours ago

"A sYstEm oF cHEckS aND bALanCes"

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  • [–] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

    Probably so he he can funnel it to his family.

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  • [–] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    Ne wants so bad to be a king that the hasn't even considered the possibility of ending up with his head chopped off.

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  • [–] 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    I desperately hope that a deathly illness happens to Trump. I'm so fucking tired of him.

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  • [–] 6 points 15 hours ago

    This fucker is speed running civil war.

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    As an 80 year old dotard with delusions of dementia, does he even know what he is doing anymore?

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    Most of the cuts are focused on services for immigrants, including non-profits that serve refugees and unaccompanied minors accused of being in the country illegally

    They're literally doing the Ophan Crushing Machine!

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  • [–] 220 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    He's not using some "rare power." He is violating the Constitution and his oath of office.

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  • [–] 115 points 1 day ago* (6 children)

    This is the kind of editorial complicity that I truly hope historians will be incredibly harsh on.

    Like if you're the editor of the guardian (or wapo, or idk a billion other publications), I hope the whole world knows your name as a complicit spineless bitch that was instrumental in perpetuating this bullshit were all living through.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    The media is owned by… the owner class. Of course they’re complicit. They’re a weapon. It’s like saying the gun was complicit in the murderer’s killings.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    The editor is not "the media,"

    A person okayed this for a paycheck.

    Someone's kid says "My (mom/dad) is the editor of the guardian's current events section." When asked what their parents does for work.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    The biggest criticisms from the left about the guardian and their leadership seems to be their allegiance to liberalism as opposed to progressivism, so a defense and support of capital and the capital class at the expense of actual progress no matter the subject. This instance would also fit into that category if you perceive the Scott Trust group as owned by the ideals of the capital class.

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  • [–] 140 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    It's not fucking "rare and contested." It's just blatantly violating the Constitution. Congress has control of the budget, not the president. It's his job to execute on the law, not to pick and choose which laws to follow.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    If that were true then the president couldn’t cancel it 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 35 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The president does a lot of things that he isn't allowed until the courts tell him to fuck off. Just wastes valuable judge time having to babysit his every move because he doesn't know what he is doing.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 hours ago*

    You are wrong though. He or his handlers know exactly what they're doing. This has been his strategy his entire life. Break the law, then tie up the ensuing suits in the courts so long that he still effectively gets away with it and/or it costs how opposition too much to continue.

    He is proof positive that delayed justice is not justice at all.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    If murder is illegal then why are you dead? Boom, checkmate.

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago*

    Well, yeah, murder or sexual abuse against minors is illegal, yet you see the rich and powerful engage in these things constantly without consequence.

    The law is words on paper, enforcement is what makes law reality, otherwise it's just a suggestion.

    If you deny someone their life-saving medication you might go to jail for it. If a rich person does denies life-saving medication to someone because it makes them a few dollars more, they get praised for it.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago

    I mean, if the authorities don't arrest/charge then functionally yes. This demented old pedo has legit killed hundreds of thousands through inaction during Covid and killed millions globally by letting that dipshit Musk gut USAID. He's a murderer on par with any other fascist but will he see consequences?

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  • [–] 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Bet that billion somehow ends up in trumps pocket.

    But like I actually bet. someone bet me.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    What a chickenshit sane-washing headline. Shame on you, Guardian.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    And what will he do with the billion dollars?

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  • [–] 6 points 23 hours ago

    And the cons have the gall to still be whining about "cancel culture".

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  • [–] 54 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    "rare and constested" does this apply in court if I rob a bank? Like is my claim on the money in the vault a "rare and contested" legal defence?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    And nothing of consequence will be done.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    They really should start clarifying, the people manipulating and controlling Trump did this, Trump is not smart enough to fight his was out of a paper bag

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  • [–] -1 points 13 hours ago

    Good thing they have the second amendment to deal with this exact situation, amirite? I mean what's what they've been selling it to the population for the last 200 years. Surprise, surprise, when push comes to shove the majority of yanks are cowardly.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Ah, Susan Collins trying to get her name out there in a better way. Too late, Susan!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago*

    Her issue was Abortion, and she blew it. Unforgiveable. No half-assed attempt at morality is going to earn her a second chance. Besides, nobody in Maine cares about immigration, she was just grasping at the first straw she could.

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