Trump using rare power to revoke expenditure with bipartisan approval to aid immigrant services
Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1bn in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives.
Trump’s office of management and budget described the funding cut as focused on “the most harmful government spending”.
Most of the cuts are focused on services for immigrants, including non-profits that serve refugees and unaccompanied minors accused of being in the country illegally. The administration says the funds are no longer necessary because illegal border crossings have diminished considerably.
This is the kind of editorial complicity that I truly hope historians will be incredibly harsh on.
Like if you’re the editor of the guardian (or wapo, or idk a billion other publications), I hope the whole world knows your name as a complicit spineless bitch that was instrumental in perpetuating this bullshit were all living through.
The media is owned by… the owner class. Of course they’re complicit. They’re a weapon. It’s like saying the gun was complicit in the murderer’s killings.
Some of us experienced free press and that’s our starting context.
The editor is not “the media,”
A person okayed this for a paycheck.
Someone’s kid says “My (mom/dad) is the editor of the guardian’s current events section.” When asked what their parents does for work.
And yet sometimes they are.