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superrific
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Well, they did re-elect Jacky Rosen and kept three Dems in the house, and the presidential vote was irrelevant, so I'm not going to throw them in the FAFO camp just yet.
1moretimeagain
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Trump did promise tipped workers they’d be paying less tax.
I thought he could stop it in 24 hours?
sringwal
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Trump's Galerie des Glaces?
tarheelbillie
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I give “attention to this matter” constantly. The “matter” is anything Trump!
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superrific
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Yes, but the one upside of him being a pathological liar is that nobody knows if any of that shit is actually true.
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Trump Administration Blocks Funding for CDC Health Programs
—> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...f?st=6QJxJ9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink“The Trump administration is blocking funding for a swath of public-health programs run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the latest flashpoint in a push by the White House to withhold money already approved by Congress.
… These include youth violence prevention programs, research on preventing gun injuries and deaths, and efforts targeting diabetes, chronic kidney disease and tobacco use.
It couldn’t be determined how much the withheld money would amount to, but it could be as high as $200 million, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. Another person familiar estimated the amount to be more than $300 million.
OMB recently moved to block about $15 billion in research funding from the National Institutes of Health using a similar footnote mechanism. The office reversed course after senior White House officials intervened, The Wall Street Journal previously reported….”
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after federal funding cuts
CPB said it would cut a majority of its jobs by the end of September.
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Actually Russia and some Saudi Prince are likely paying for it
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and...