Trump proposals and what actually gets accomplished (1 Viewer)

[MT15]

I don’t think this fits into any current thread - it’s not an appointment or anything. Maybe a thread to keep track of his proposals and whether they are implemented?

 

[MT15]

I just saw this. I’m not really sure if it’s constitutionally valid or not.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Something tells me that doesn’t work with abortion pills

If they are legal in the state you live in you can take them in any state

 

[J-DONK]

I just saw this. I’m not really sure if it’s constitutionally valid or not.

Half of what they want to do takes passing laws. So long as they keep the supermajority rule, they are limited too only EO's, and the annual budget bill. The same as Dems.

 

[MT15]

Well, they evidently are so keen on tariffs they are unwilling to wait until Trump takes office.

 

[bird]

Well, they evidently are so keen on tariffs they are unwilling to wait until Trump takes office.

Inflation is coming.

 

[Neworleansfan]

Well, they evidently are so keen on tariffs they are unwilling to wait until Trump takes office.

So the poor and the middle class lose again and it doesn’t matter which party is in power. These extra costs will be passed down to the consumers. Just like the bank bailout in 2008, the automakers bailouts. No wonder more than half of the population don’t give a fork who is in charge. They are going to get screwed either ways.

 

[MT15]

So the poor and the middle class lose again and it doesn’t matter which party is in power. These extra costs will be passed down to the consumers. Just like the bank bailout in 2008, the automakers bailouts. No wonder more than half of the population don’t give a fork who is in charge. They are going to get screwed either ways.

The GOP has the House. I’m not sure why you think the Dems are involved in this?

 

[MT15]

I can’t read the whole article, because I don’t want to give them my email. But from what I can see, it seems they are saying that the House GOP is introducing a bill that would give the Treasury Secretary the ability to revoke any non-profit’s tax-exempt status if he says they “support terrorism”.

Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies

A bill that would let Donald Trump unilaterally revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits is being fast-tracked through Congress.

theintercept.com

Edit: reading some that say this bill has bipartisan support. I just hope there are some guardrails built in. I can easily imaging someone in Trump’s administration designating Planned Parenthood a supporter of terrorism for performing abortions.

 

[J-DONK]

So the poor and the middle class lose again and it doesn’t matter which party is in power. These extra costs will be passed down to the consumers. Just like the bank bailout in 2008, the automakers bailouts. No wonder more than half of the population don’t give a fork who is in charge. They are going to get screwed either ways.

If you factor in Biden had no control over inflation. That it was world wide. Biden passed a lot of pro-middle class legislation.

In fact, one of the worst take aways from this election for democrats. That trying to pass legislation that helps the middle class does not help you. They are literally to dumb to realize that, and will fall for disinformation every single time.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Donald Trump spent the last few months vehemently denying he or his campaign is closely tied to the Heritage Foundation – the right-wing think tank responsible for publishing Project 2025, a controversial list of policy ideas aimed at consolidating executive power.

But there’s another rising influential right-wing think tank that has developed its own extremist platform for the new Trump administration: the America First Policy Institute (AFPI).

Founded in 2021 by two former Trump administration officials, AFPI has quietly grown its team, increased revenue and expanded its policy ideas to become an influential force in the MAGA world.

AFPI’s plans include requiring ultrasounds for people obtaining abortions (even for medication abortions), making civil servants easier to fire by changing them to at-will employees, and reversing gun control laws – just to name a few.

The organization’s chairperson, Linda McMahon, is already an official member of Trump’s presidential transition team — making it even more likely the President-elect will adopt some of its policies in his second term.

AFPI’s agenda consists of 10 “pillars” to reshape the executive branch and enact changes that it claims will improve the United States – in a similar but less organized fashion than the 900-page Project 2025.……

The right-wing agenda replacing Project 2025

Implementing loyalists to executive branch positions, forcing local and state law enforcement agencies to comply with mass deportation and taking a confrontational approach to relations with China are all policies promoted by the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank with...

www.independent.co.uk

 

[bird]

I am just so flocking done with these flocking azzhats.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Donald Trump hasn't even taken office, and Congress is already moving to advance legislation to expand his ability to target his enemies. The former president has repeatedly threatened on the campaign trail that he will attack "the enemy from within" using the military. But new legislation could give him unprecedented authority to go after nonprofit organizations he disagrees with.

Donald Trump hasn't even taken office, and Congress is already moving to advance legislation to expand his ability to target his enemies. The former president has repeatedly threatened on the campaign trail that he will attack "the enemy from within" using the military. But new legislation could give him unprecedented authority to go after nonprofit organizations he disagrees with.

Hamadanchy said that this bill is "about stifling dissent and to chill advocacy, because people are going to avoid certain things and take certain positions in order to avoid this designation."

The bill would allow the Treasury secretary to notify targeted nonprofits that their tax-exempt status is at risk, giving the organization 90 days to appeal before losing its 501(c)(3) status.

The vague language in the bill could be used against nonprofits that support Palestinian rights, reproductive rights and environmental protections.

"The danger is much broader than just groups that work on foreign policy," Ryan Costello, policy director at the National Iranian American Council Action, told The Intercept. "It could target major liberal funders who support Palestinian solidarity and peace groups who engage in protest. But it could also theoretically be used to target pro-choice groups, and I could see it being used against environmental groups."............

MSN

House Fast-Tracks Bill That Would Give Trump Power to Target Nonprofits

New legislation could give Donald Trump unprecedented power to go after nonprofit organizations he disagrees with.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[TampaJoe]

Donald Trump hasn't even taken office, and Congress is already moving to advance legislation to expand his ability to target his enemies. The former president has repeatedly threatened on the campaign trail that he will attack "the enemy from within" using the military. But new legislation could give him unprecedented authority to go after nonprofit organizations he disagrees with.

Donald Trump hasn't even taken office, and Congress is already moving to advance legislation to expand his ability to target his enemies. The former president has repeatedly threatened on the campaign trail that he will attack "the enemy from within" using the military. But new legislation could give him unprecedented authority to go after nonprofit organizations he disagrees with.

Hamadanchy said that this bill is "about stifling dissent and to chill advocacy, because people are going to avoid certain things and take certain positions in order to avoid this designation."

The bill would allow the Treasury secretary to notify targeted nonprofits that their tax-exempt status is at risk, giving the organization 90 days to appeal before losing its 501(c)(3) status.

The vague language in the bill could be used against nonprofits that support Palestinian rights, reproductive rights and environmental protections.

"The danger is much broader than just groups that work on foreign policy," Ryan Costello, policy director at the National Iranian American Council Action, told The Intercept. "It could target major liberal funders who support Palestinian solidarity and peace groups who engage in protest. But it could also theoretically be used to target pro-choice groups, and I could see it being used against environmental groups."............

MSN

House Fast-Tracks Bill That Would Give Trump Power to Target Nonprofits

New legislation could give Donald Trump unprecedented power to go after nonprofit organizations he disagrees with.

www.rollingstone.com

This smells alot like what the Obama administration did to the Tea Party 5013c organizations. It was abusive and wrong then and a similar poicy from the right targeting left leaning organizations is equally wrong and abusive.

 

[Optimus Prime]

What exactly is a "victim of DEI"?

Is it any time a white person, especially a man, doesn't get hired but a non white person does? Does it even matter if that person is just a qualified or better qualified
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Donald Trump’s big plans for reshaping education in the United States include fining schools for implementing and engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and using seized funds as restitution for “victims” of DEI policies.

On the campaign trail, the now-president-elect appealed to people who see progressive changes in education as “indoctrination” of children by promising to end all diversity programs that are meant to promote and maintain fair treatment among people who historically are underrepresented or discriminated against.

“Schools that persist in explicit unlawful discrimination under the guise of equity will not only have their endowment taxed, but through budget reconciliation, I will advance a measure to have them fined up to the entire amount of their endowment,” Trump said in a video posted in July.

Trump’s promise appeals directly to critics of DEI programs that claim they are discriminatory toward other groups of people, particularly white people, reports The Grio.

In his video, Trump added that some seized school funds would then be used “as restitution for victims of these illegal and unjust policies.”............

Trump threatens to use school funding to pay restitutions to ‘victims of DEI’

President-elect plans to take down any diversity programs within the federal government

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[superchuck500]

So the poor and the middle class lose again and it doesn’t matter which party is in power. These extra costs will be passed down to the consumers. Just like the bank bailout in 2008, the automakers bailouts. No wonder more than half of the population don’t give a fork who is in charge. They are going to get screwed either ways.

Yes, tariffs act as a regressive tax - which means the impact is relatively worse the lower you go on the economic stratum. They’re also inflationary, which has disparate impact on lower income households.

But this was covered extensively in the campaigns and lower income and blue-collar voters went substantially in favor of Trump - including with significant gains in the minority community. And Trump turnout was high (demographics appear to show that Democratic voter turnout fell from 2020, while Trump voter turnout increased). I don't see how this can equate with the claim that more than half of the population don't give a fork who is in charge, it appears they very clearly do care.

Certainly there's empathy for low-income households that are likely going to see their budget suppressed rather than aided by Trump's policies - and for the ones that didn't vote for him, that's especially difficult. But the data all show that a majority (perhaps even a significant majority) of the demographics associated with lower income supported Trump . . . which means they supported Trump policies. They weren't hidden, they were right there in the wide open the whole time. They chose them.

 

[Saint by the Bay]

This smells alot like what the Obama administration did to the Tea Party 5013c organizations. It was abusive and wrong then and a similar poicy from the right targeting left leaning organizations is equally wrong and abusive.

This is misinformation. Obama pushed forward rules that also impacted pro-Obama and pro-liberal organizations. They were hit with the same reviews as the Tea Party organizations. The misinformation machine just cherry picked organizations to make it seem like political retribution knowing people wouldn’t bother to learn the facts because, Internet.

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/obama-pitches-new-rules-for-political-nonprofits-100401

I’m also not sure I have an issue with what Trump wants to do yet. The “non-profit” world is a cash cow. I work with some of these folks and the amount of fraud and abuse is absolutely staggering. I’d have to see how this plays out before forming an opinion, but I’ll say something needs to be done to reform how non-profits work and how much of their revenue can go to “administrative” expenses and to line the pocket of those that turn around and give them government grants which they use to pay themselves multi million dollar salaries and benefit packages.