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This was inevitable

The government has been operating for Continuing Resolutions for the past three years and faces a budget deadline in March.... They can't guarantee anything.

Lest some folks think all of this was no big deal... Don't take it from me, but take it from *checks notes* the GOP Gov of Louisiana

Looks like the arsonists put out another one of their fires and will expect an Attaboy

The letter isn't a real buyout

You bought the ticket, Cardinal... You get to take the ride

This action is generating a lot of actual pushback, has now been slapped down by the courts (at least temporarily), has given Democrats (who prior to today were stuck in neutral at best) a cudgel with which to hit the administration with repeatedly (should they take it), and there's reason to believe because it impacts a lot of federal programs that people take for granted included (basically every program), it's something that will break through to normal people. I don't think they wanted or expected the rollout of their government funding freeze to happen like it did. It's honestly pretty clear cut that it was done haphazardly and incompetently. So we just disagree here.

My Occam's Razor is that the Targets of the world are misreading the moment and misreading *why* Trump won. (ie. Not because of DEI)

Given how some major corporations have acted since Trump won, you would think that "Ending federal efforts to hire women and minorities" would poll a lot lower

Anecdotal, but threats to SNAP funding and threats to Head Start/Education funding have been mentioned on by FB feed so far....

We just don't agree on this... And frankly think the defeatism is a self fulfilling prophecy.

I think we ascribe a lot of genius to these guys.... the reality is that this rollout of this policy being a ****show suggests a lot of incompetence. It doesn't downplay the malevolence to recognize this. Politically, there are ways that they could have done all of their plans that wouldn't have caused this uproar, which would have made said plans a lot easier. But they didn't do that.

Both can be true

She's what Don Henley would call a "Bubble Headed Bleach Blonde"

"Boom boss man got involved!" lol

At least from statements made by Ron Wyden, Liz Warren and Mark Warner, today seems to be an inflection point for the D Senators. It's a big cudgel that the new administration just gave them.

One thing that the slip shows is that Lowry doesn't deep down believe any of this crap, just going with the flow

So states are now unable to access Medicaid.... Owning he libs by *check notes* demolishing the finances of American hospital systems

Woah, hold the phone.... So it was what are eyes told it was after all, Rich???

The most complimentary interpretation (which is by no means complimentary) is that they wrote to exempt individual benefits, but in reality these benefits are initially handled by groups prior to payout to individuals It's all terrible, but it's also a case where they completely bungled the writing of the statute, and the result is massive chaos and uproar

Amateur hour

Trump voters

Just incredibly bad...

In my conservative industry, this just isn't true at all.

Owning the libs by *checks notes* freezing infrastructure projects.