The cuts to several states come amid an escalating fraud fallout fueled by a dubious YouTube investigation of Minnesota day cares.
The Trump administration on Monday said it had slashed billions in social services funds to a handful of blue states as part of its escalating response to new and unproven fraud allegations in Minnesota.
The Department of Health and Human Services will freeze $10 billion worth of federal grants to California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York, an HHS official told HuffPost, confirming news first reported by The New York Post.
It’s not clear whether the freeze was inspired by specific fraud allegations or solely for political reasons. Officials did not immediately provide a public explanation.
Time for blue states to stop allowing federal taxes to be paid by their citizens. File suits on behalf of your constituents. No taxation without representation
It would be fucking phenomenal for my state to keep the dollars internal and invest in more in its citizens. Why the fuck am I working everyday to subsidize the fuckers in the south and midwest that keep voting to wreck everything around us.
Agree 100% they can live in pedofile propaganda con man land and we can cut that insanity off
More to the point, though, every dollar that flees to a red state is one that isn’t investing in mine.
If they hat handouts so much it’s time to grow a pair and figure out to feed their own damned selves.
So then blue state citizens should cut their federal tax payments. No taxation without representation.
Time for the Blue States to cut funding to the Red Oblasts.
He really wants a war, whether it be a civil or with another country.
This way he can cancel all elections and become the King of America.
alleged minnesota fraud that was fully debunked within 48 hours as hot bullshit.
Remember that with Republicans and conservatives, every accusation is a confession.
SO WHAT ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES???
Don’t stop talking about this. Drumpf, the pedo rapist felon, wants us to stop talking about the Epstein/Trump Files. Do not stop talking about the Epstein/Trump Files because drumpf is a pedo rapist felon.
They were going to cut welfare and social programs anyway, that’s all they’re here to do, they are gutting our treasury before they all get kicked out or guillotined. If the wind shifted in the wrong direction they would announce it’s reason to cut funding.
Pay attention people, this is your script. When you talk to people on the fence, tuned out or already leaning right, you do not argue about social policies, racism, immigration or any of the other hot-button social issues that are on fire right now. Average dumb fucks (which is everyone) don’t actually care about any of that. I’m sorry but people just broadly only care about themselves. Maybe that will change someday, but for now you are not going to get success finger-wagging and pointing out the suffering of marginalized people.
What you say is this: “Okay they’re cutting all this funding for medical care and poor people, they cut NASA and all these boards for health and education and environment protection, so where’s the benefit? Where is that money going? Are your groceries cheaper? Is your healthcare cheaper? Is anything getting better?”
That’s it. Just ask this one question. If it’s some MAGAss who starts ranting and sputtering, you let it go. Or just repeat the question. “Where is your money that they’re taking out of your check? Where is going to? Getting oil from Venezuela? Are YOU going to get a barrel of crude?”
We can leverage the average dumbass American if we make it a question not a lecture. People are dumber than they’ve ever been, but they still want to look smart, and if you ask them a question they can’t answer, they will chew on it so they know how to answer it next time someone asks.
Absolutely. People who don’t “care” about “politics” , they do care about economic issues that affect them
Along similar lines, I always noticed how we have a vigorous debate about tax rates but nobody ever seems to discuss the benefits you receive for them. The tax rate isn’t going down to zero for working people ever. As long as we have to pay, surely we should get something in return.
100%, we need to keep the focus on what our government is doing for us, we’re supposed to be the people who pay for and “own” our government, we pay their bills with our hard work and money, we sacrifice our future so that we can have a government. “We the people” needs to have meaning. Turn people’s desire to be patriotic against the right targets.
How do you afford those benefits? I have no objection to tax rates paid by 95% of the population, but I strongly object to the tax rates paid paid by Elon musk and others of that ilk
Those blue state citizens are what funds the red states…
I’ve been saying it for almost a year now, it won’t be easy but blue states need to stop having employees federal taxes sent off every check. Instead send it to a fund, when trump pulls shit like this, use the fund to make up the difference.
It’s gonna come to that point eventually and it’s a complicated process, so we should have it set up and ready to pull the trigger.
Do you know how many people would flock to blue states if they thought didn’t have to pay federal income tax? It would be madness.
isn’t that the point?
They would still be paying the tax
Blue states have most of the adults worth having.
Instead send it to a fund, when trump pulls shit like this, use the fund to make up the difference.
Do you know how many people would flock to blue States if they thought their taxes were going to be spent on anything that will benefit them?
More people would flock to blue states if they could do basic math surrounding long term cost of living expenses.
I think that would be a feature, not a bug.
Why would blue states still pay into the federal government when they’re not getting anything out of it anymore? Seems to me they’re financing their own abusive relationship. I don’t understand how this works. Aren’t blue states the only reason these crappy red states are even still slightly functional?
I’m not American but it seems to me that collectively the blue states would hold a lot of power if they’re the financial backbone of the country. Can’t they swing their weight around a little?
You would think. Our stupid country has senators based on statehood rather than representation of population. The pocket of Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana has ~3.5 million people combined, yet has 4x the voting power of California which has 10x the population. It’s a garbage system.
Also if you look at virtually any statistic by state. Red states are a dumpster fire. Literacy, STDs, teen pregnancy, income, obesity, etc.
Only a complete fucking moron could be a republican. The evidence of their failure and unnecessary cruelty is overwhelming.
Taxes levied by the US federal government are against individuals and businesses directly. States also levy their own taxes independently. So these funds paid to the federal government (largely) don’t go through state hands.
They could withhold taxes on state employees. That would be easy. If they wanted to go full second civil war, They could pass laws making it illegal for companies to pay taxes to the federal government.
Ah I see. Then it makes sense. The population itself would have to stop paying taxes. That’s a bit more complicated because then individuals would be sanctioned by the government and people probably don’t want to take that risk.
Even MAGAs are so upset with this regime that they are proposing a tax strike. This seems like a cause everyone could support.
I was kinda anti tax evasion (even legal tax evasion) prior to the second Trump admin. Nowadays, I’m in support of everyone doing their best to send as little money to the federal government as possible.
FYI “legal tax evasion” is called tax avoidance. It’s a form of direct action against a government that doesn’t represent you at all.
I’m happy to pay my California taxes.
I’m happy to pay my California taxes.
Same
The social-media-conspiracy-to-federal-policy pipeline is becoming suspiciously short.
When you are run by a dictator, you only need to convince one person to make a change. It’s madness.
They are desperate to start an insurrection so they can cancel the 2026 midterms
If they are smart, they will still hold the elections just refuse to seat reps from 5-6 blue states. That would keep them in power for another 2 years.
Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose
It’s not clear whether the freeze was inspired by specific fraud allegations or solely for political reasons.
Seriously? It’s not? Does it need to be spelled out in 24 point font, in an affidavit, witnessed and signed by a judge for it to be clear to these people?
This further solidifies red states’ status as leeches.
