After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers supplicate Trump team for the PORK they voted on to flow into their states

essentialsaltes · Feb 19, 2025

After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds

Republican senators are asking Cabinet secretaries and other Trump officials to let money flow back into their states.

[Why would they want more waste, fraud and inefficiency?]

Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.

Even as many Republicans praise the ultimate goal of streamlining the federal government [for somebody else's faces], some GOP senators spanning the ideological spectrum from Katie Boyd Britt (Alabama) to Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) have lobbied the Trump administration to reconsider its cuts or pauses to federal grants that support biomedical research and labs, or for programs supporting Native American tribes.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), a close Trump ally who supports the cuts, said last week that begging for funds may be the new normal

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) said she’s been “aggressively” working the EPA and its secretary, Lee Zeldin, to unfreeze grants for green school buses that are manufactured in her state. “Trimming fat out of government, we all know it needs to be done,” Capito said.

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) used the social media platform X to ask Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help unfreeze food aid that was stalled in U.S. ports

[Democrats meanwhile: "We'll see you in court."] Democrats have decried the pauses as illegal. “Once again: if Donald Trump or Elon Musk want to gut funding that’s creating good-paying jobs all across America, they can take their case to Congress and win the votes they need to do it. Defying the constitution to unilaterally rip away your tax dollars is not how this works,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington), the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a statement.

[Currently, AFAIK, the freeze on NIH spending has been put on hold, but only in the 22 states that sued. Katie Britt's Alabama is not among them.]

Fantine · Feb 19, 2025

Problem is he'll help the red states and ignore the blue states.
Being president of all the people is for losers.

Nithavela · Feb 19, 2025

Anyone remember the videos of Russian soldiers filming themselves getting on their knees and begging Putin for at least equiping them with something besides rusty kalashnikovs before sending them to their deaths?

I think a lot about those videos lately.

Aryeh Jay · Feb 19, 2025

Nithavela said:
Anyone remember the videos of Russian soldiers filming themselves getting on their knees and begging Putin for at least equiping them with something besides rusty kalashnikovs before sending them to their deaths?

I think a lot about those videos lately.

Soon they will have new western weapons from the former Ukraine.

rambot · Feb 25, 2025

Another weird example of how folks with an authoritarian bent are SO quick to give in to someone like that instead of fighting back.
"Hmmm. I guess I have to beg for the money that I have legally, and procedurally, already earned through proper processes cause the guy who's boots I have to lick needs to feel important and in control".

camille70 · Mar 26, 2025

MSN

Trump, USDA cuts 553,000 pounds of food for Greater Cleveland Food Bank: ‘Complete disappointment’

Cleveland Ohio – The shelves of the Greater Cleveland Food Bank will be emptier after the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly canceled 553,000 pounds of food that was expected to help those facing food insecurity.

The food bank learned on Tuesday that it is a victim once again of funding cuts under the Trump administration. Twenty semi-truck loads of food, worth $1 million, from the Emergency Food Assistance Program have been canceled.

...She also noted that the Food Bank staff only discovered the cancellations when an employee checked the status of the orders. In the past, she said, there had been direct communication between the food bank, the USDA, and the state regarding such changes.

camille70 · Mar 26, 2025

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-cuts-hit-struggling-food-banks-risking-hunger-low-income-americans-2025-03-25/

USDA cuts hit food banks, risking hunger for low-income Americans

Reuters spoke with food banks in seven states who said cancellation and pauses of the programs meant they expected to offer less produce, meat and other staples in the coming weeks and months, leaving scarcer food for those reliant on free supplies that helped stave off hunger.

Aryeh Jay · Mar 26, 2025

One thing I learned that will stave off hunger is go out and get a job.

A2SG · Mar 26, 2025

Aryeh Jay said:
One thing I learned that will stave off hunger is go out and get a job.

Experts Recommend Using Hunger As Egg Substitute

WASHINGTON—In the wake of soaring egg prices and shortages nationwide, food experts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture released new guidelines Friday recommending the use of hunger as an appropriate egg substitute. “Whether used as a binder in baked goods or on its own as a savory...

theonion.com

-- A2SG, good to know reliable news sources are still around....

Pommer · Mar 27, 2025

camille70 said:
MSN

Trump, USDA cuts 553,000 pounds of food for Greater Cleveland Food Bank: ‘Complete disappointment’

Cleveland Ohio – The shelves of the Greater Cleveland Food Bank will be emptier after the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly canceled 553,000 pounds of food that was expected to help those facing food insecurity.

The food bank learned on Tuesday that it is a victim once again of funding cuts under the Trump administration. Twenty semi-truck loads of food, worth $1 million, from the Emergency Food Assistance Program have been canceled.

...She also noted that the Food Bank staff only discovered the cancellations when an employee checked the status of the orders. In the past, she said, there had been direct communication between the food bank, the USDA, and the state regarding such changes.

Oh pshaw! Once those tariff money starts rolling in we’ll have more than enough money to not only enrich the wealthy (even more) but the poor will have plenty too! Pave the street with gold!

Pommer · Mar 27, 2025

Aryeh Jay said:
One thing I learned that will stave off hunger is go out and get a job.

Once deflation kicks in eggs will be 1¢/ea.

Aryeh Jay · Mar 27, 2025

Pommer said:
Oh pshaw! Once those tariff money starts rolling in we’ll have more than enough money to not only enrich the wealthy (even more) but the poor will have plenty too! Pave the street with gold!

I remember the gold streets back in 2008 before Obama ripped them out and sent all the gold to Iran. They were kinda wanky to drive on in the rain and snow and sunny weather was a problem with glare in some areas but they sure beat Biden's so called infrastructure improvements.

Aryeh Jay · Mar 27, 2025

Pommer said:
Once deflation kicks in eggs will be 1¢/ea.

If gas keeps reverse dropping where I'm at I will have to buy a coal burning Stanley Steam car.

FireDragon76 · Mar 27, 2025

Fantine said:
Problem is he'll help the red states and ignore the blue states.
Being president of all the people is for losers.

He wants a patronage system just like what they have in Russia. Nothing in Russia gets done unless hands are greased.

camille70 · Mar 27, 2025

A scholarship program helped boost diversity at U of M. Trump’s DEI crackdown just killed it.

The University of Michigan Alumni Association has ended the LEAD Scholars program, a merit-based scholarship that worked to improve enrollment for minority students.

A scholarship program helped boost diversity at U of M. Trump’s DEI crackdown just killed it.

The University of Michigan Alumni Association has ended the LEAD Scholars program, a merit-based scholarship that worked to improve enrollment for minority students.

www.whatimreading.net

Pommer · Mar 27, 2025

Aryeh Jay said:
If gas keeps reverse dropping where I'm at I will have to buy a coal burning Stanley Steam car.

Just think of the jobs created when we have to hire people with push brooms and shovels to rid the streets of the horse manure!

Pommer · Mar 27, 2025

FireDragon76 said:
He wants a patronage system just like what they have in Russia. Nothing in Russia gets done unless hands are greased.

The good news is that these will be considered “tips” which won’t be taxable!

Aryeh Jay · Mar 27, 2025

Pommer said:
Just think of the jobs created when we have to hire people with push brooms and shovels to rid the streets of the horse manure!

Funny, I live in a town with a sizeable Amish population, already have manure in the street.

Pommer · Mar 27, 2025

Aryeh Jay said:
Funny, I live in a town with a sizeable Amish population, already have manure in the street.

Your tomatoes must be impressive!

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