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Homan in a near-future Trump cabinet meeting: "I know, let's cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and claim that we're going to use the savings to build the border wall and round up all illegals and deport them. We'll kill two birds with one stone, and our base will cheer watching immigrants being deported while we gut their social safety net. Winning!"
 
Who would have thought South Africa would end up on top when the music stopped in this game of geopolitical musical chairs?
 
All the stories I have found on this so far point to the same source. But I also found stories in 2023 about Republicans criticizing the Biden Administration auctioning off left over wall materials (which they were doing supposedly in accordance with federal excess property disposition regulations).



Biden also had to apply some remaining border wall funds to build more wall in 2023:


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So, no clear answer whether the last few auctions are some devious rush before Trump takes office or continuing a process that has been underway for over a year.
I saw your update on this, but can't find it again.

In the end, it was a big, juicy nothing burger because the selling was required by a bill.
 

Trump’s transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous.​


Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data.

"... The private emails have agency employees considering insisting on in-person meetings and document exchanges that they otherwise would have conducted electronically, according to two federal officials granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation. Their anxiety is particularly high in light of recent hacking attempts from China and Iran that targeted Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and other top officials.

... Trump — who attacked his then-opponent Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server for official business during his first presidential run — is overseeing a fully privatized transition that communicates from an array of @transition47.com, @trumpvancetransition.com and @djtfp24.com accounts rather than anything ending in .gov, and uses private servers, laptops and cell phones instead of government-issued devices.

This break with tradition stems from the Trump team forgoing federal funding and the ethics and transparency requirements that come with it.

While it’s unclear how the decision is impacting a transition that is already behind, with fewer than five weeks remaining until Inauguration Day, one person familiar with the collaboration between the Biden administration and the Trump transition team, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive discussions, said it is further hampering the process. ..."

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You don't have to compromise when you're the CEO and controlling shareholder and no one tells you no. I think he is in for a rude awakening. Elon is going to figure out the limits of working within our Congressional system.
Your naivete is very endearing.

Elon isn't in Congress. He holds no office. He has no accountability to voters. There is no mechanism to control him because the Republicans are entirely in his pocket. He bought a government and he will run it as he sees fit.
 

Trump’s transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous.​


Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data.

"... The private emails have agency employees considering insisting on in-person meetings and document exchanges that they otherwise would have conducted electronically, according to two federal officials granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation. Their anxiety is particularly high in light of recent hacking attempts from China and Iran that targeted Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and other top officials.

... Trump — who attacked his then-opponent Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server for official business during his first presidential run — is overseeing a fully privatized transition that communicates from an array of @transition47.com, @trumpvancetransition.com and @djtfp24.com accounts rather than anything ending in .gov, and uses private servers, laptops and cell phones instead of government-issued devices.

This break with tradition stems from the Trump team forgoing federal funding and the ethics and transparency requirements that come with it.

While it’s unclear how the decision is impacting a transition that is already behind, with fewer than five weeks remaining until Inauguration Day, one person familiar with the collaboration between the Biden administration and the Trump transition team, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive discussions, said it is further hampering the process. ..."

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JFC
 
Your naivete is very endearing.

Elon isn't in Congress. He holds no office. He has no accountability to voters. There is no mechanism to control him because the Republicans are entirely in his pocket. He bought a government and he will run it as he sees fit.
We'll see. Trump couldn't get Congress to do what he wanted other than that big tax cut for rich donors which the Democrats suspiciously acquiesced to.
 
Why would it have no chance? He has the house and the senate, correct?

Noticing the wording changes and talking points over these last two years, they will try it.
Because it would be political suicide for many Republican Senators and Representatives to support a bill re-federalizing abortion, especially such a restrictive bill.
 
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