and what about the future? Those contracts are long standing, and now those farmers will have to find new customers, all while the US is now in the midst of a trade war with our neighbors and China, who are actually the three biggest importer of ag products from the US. MAGA /s dummies ![]() |
This is the democratic will of the people. Even the liberal press isn't covering this as a five alarm fire. It's well below the fold on Drudge. It sucks for the employees, but it's being met with a collective shrug. |
Agencies are reorganized through consultation with Congress. This is NOT following democratic processes. Trump is not king. |
It's not the democratic will of most voters, even Trump ones. And there are ways to do things and this is not the way. The papers don't know how to handle the seriousness of this without sounding like crackpots because everything that is being done is literally insane and unbelievable. These things are a big deal. |
I called Tim Kaine’s office. WTF are they doing?? |
Um. Yes, they are |
The majority of voters in 2024 voted for someone other than Trump. Only 23% of the population voted for him at all. He has no mandate. He also promised he wouldn’t follow P2025, which was deeply unpopular according to polls. But now he’s executing it to the letter. This is the last thing the majority of the country wanted. |
In theory, the President is supposed to follow the law even if he gets 95% of the vote.
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Gavin Kliger - surely you've heard of him - appears to now be in charge of USAID. He sent the email.
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It appears to be bumbling in execution, but Biden wasn’t exactly a light hand, either: “On President Biden’s first day in office, he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline and eliminated 11,000 good paying American jobs with the stroke of a pen.” https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/biden-s-burdensome-regulations-are-shutting-down-american-refineries |
So uninformed. President Joe Biden canceling the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline did lead to hundreds of job losses, but most of those jobs were temporary. The pipeline would have created only 35 long-term jobs https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/21/tim-michels/end-keystone-pipeline-did-cost-jobs-most-were-temp/ The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) conducted a report on the cancelation and found the pipeline was expected to create about 50 permanent jobs once it was operational. The information included estimates that construction of the pipeline would support between 16,000 and roughly 60,000 temporary jobs. However, the report found some estimates overstated jobs because they included jobs outside the United States https://katv.com/news/nation-world/how-the-cancelation-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-impacts-the-us-gas-energy-oil-climate-change-biden-administration-report-shows-killing-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-cost-thousands-of-jobs-billions-in-revenue-canada-russia-ukraine-global-energy-supply |
I must have missed his confirmation hearing. |
So you agree what Elon is doing is wrong and should be stopped. |
People need to get out of denial stage and get job hunt going. That is the reality. |
No one’s in denial, except the people thinking they have unilateral authority to close a federal agency. |