Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use “every available tool” to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including “withholding administrative funds from states” for the first time in history.
There is no single national program for unemployment support, though the federal government partners with state agencies to support temporary financial assistance to out-of-work Americans. Nearly 2 million people are currently receiving those benefits, while roughly 229,000 people are filing initial jobless claims every week, according to the Labor Department.
This is next distraction away from his complete failure in Iran and his green, moldy swimming pool. He’s giving $300 billion to Iran in his total surrender, what’s the total amount of assistance to be withheld in funding here?
This stunt actually has nothing to do with “fraud” in government spending, but as someone with experience in government procurement, contracting is where the waste is. The government actually doesn’t do too badly when we keep the work in-house. It’s these multimillion dollar contracts to some private company that are where the waste, fraud, and abuse are. Go fucking audit SpaceX. Revisit those contracts. Bet we can save billions every year on just one companies stupid fucking defense contracts. Then go after the rest of these contractors. Threaten to bring the work back in house and see how they react. Follow through and actually bring the work back in house, build the public sector engineering and manufacturing expertise, and see where we are.
Contracting as in having the reflection pool painted?
I don’t know why this is a surprise to anyone. Trump is famous for not paying contractors and workers. He waits it out until they sue and his expensive lawyers beep the plaintiffs dry or settle for some fraction of the contract price.
Good do it. Let the states that still have a sense of sanity group up and implement a multistate unemployment assistance strategy. Seriously, perhaps its time blue states encourage the disempowerment of the federal government and transfer those programs to mutually aligned state initiatives. Leave out all the welfare red states and redirect that transfer of wealth from blue states to red states, back to their own ppl. Americas system of statehood and states rights is something dems should probably start proposing making more use of. If feds under Trump don’t want social programs then build multistate programs that serve that function, leaving out the Maga central states altogether.
It’s like they are testing limits. They keep doing crazier shit week after week then say well no one is doing anything about it so let’s keep going.
I’m a cynical bastard who hates that fat orange child raping corrupt disgusting blob of gonorrhoea to my very core and my first thoughts were this is one of two things.
Either corruption. Such as: “why give this money to those poor people when I can have it, I’ll funnel it through numerous companies. Plus with that new ruling about me and my family not being investigated by the tax people then there’s no way anyone will do anything about it”
Or a scare tactic. “Vote for me in the midterms or lose your benefits. By the time this gets to the courts and reversed you’ll be starving or dead AND it’s obvious that no one will do fuck all to me for doing this to you”
The waste fraud and abuse are coming from inside the house.
And the senate, and the White House, and mar a lago
Yes… the white house… exactly… that’s the “joke”
All the fraud is in his home and with his friends. Even if all the people receiving benefits were making fraudulent claims, it would probably amount to less than he and his family are grifting from the US governemnt this year.
Waste and fraud… If only someone hadn’t started a war with Iran and then paid them $300B three months later to end it, gaining precisely nothing…
And spent 14 million painting a pool blue?
Currently on unemployment thanks to the tech industry. I wonder what my trump loving family members will think when I bring this up the next time they ask me how the job hunt is going.
Knowing Trump fans, they’re going to say it’s a good thing, it’ll make you get up and get a job sooner rather than laying around “wasting time on the government dime”. Cause they all probably believe it’s very easy to get another job.
Was going to say the same thing. Besides, if they know you don’t support PEDOnald, they’ll take it as your comeuppance.
I’ve had a conservative in-law tell me that maybe I should not be getting by financially, and that was implied as part of the problem under Biden - that I was doing okay. Because I went to college, etc. No, I should be doing less well and that would mean things were properly balanced or something. That somehow PEDOnald didn’t “get” people like me the first time around and somehow harmed me and others like me (meaning, again, someone who went to college) - and maybe not only financially and that hopefully that would be different in his second term.
It’s just as fucked as it sounds. Did this in-law think it through and realize it would harm not only my kids, but his direct blood relative? If he did, he didn’t give a fuck, apparently.
If you aren’t conservative and don’t support Donvict, you deserve to suffer, in their worldview.
“Have you asked ChatGPT for help finding a job?”
When he breaks California, I hope the red states will like living in cardboard boxes and eating dirt.
Cool. Do it. I cannot wait to see what happens before he realizes that his base are beneficiaries of unemployment.
The new distraction from the Epstein files is here!
