home.social

#powerofthepurse — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #powerofthepurse, aggregated by home.social.

  1. “As the Court expressly recognized, the #FirstAmendment draws a line, which the government may not cross, at efforts to use government power — including the #PowerOfThePurse — ‘to punish or suppress disfavored expression’ by others,” Boutrous said in a statement. “The Executive Order crossed that line.”

    #law #FreeSpeech #NPR #PBS #Trump #Congress #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  2. A federal judge in August blocked #Trump from withholding #US #funding from more than in 30 jurisdictions including Los Angeles, Baltimore, Boston & Chicago that have declined to cooperate with his hardline #immigration crackdown following Trump's executive orders a year ago.

    #judiciary #law #Congress #PowerOfThePurse #SeparationOfPowers #RevengePolitics

  3. Illegal!

    #Trump to cut #funding to #states over #SanctuaryCities

    Federal payments will be halted to states over their so-called sanctuary cities on February 1, Trump said Wednesday without elaborating on what funds or which states.

    "Effective February first, no more payments will be made by the federal government to states for their corrupt criminal protection centers known as sanctuary cities," Trump wrote in a social media post.

    #law #Congress #PowerOfThePurse
    reuters.com/world/us/trump-say

  4. "Trump said the oil would be sold at market prices and that he would control the resulting revenues"

    The Constitution would beg to differ.... #PowerOfThePurse

    aje.io/tfqpzj

  5. #SCOTUS lifted a preliminary injunction from a federal judge who found #Trump had usurped #Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse by refusing to spend billions it had budgeted for food, medicine & development around the world.
    
The decision will likely embolden Trump’s efforts to block funds across the #FederalGovernment on everything from #health #research to #transportation projects to “#SanctuaryCities.”

    #law #ActivistCourt #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower

  6. Joseph Rillotta, a senior #IRS lawyer, wrote that “no one” at the IRS had taken into account the performance of the probationary workers set to be fired. Rillotta urged that the language be struck from the draft termination letter.

    If the falsehood wasn’t removed, Rillotta said he would file a report w/the #InspectorGeneral for the IRS.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #DOGE #Musk #TrumpPurge #Congress #PowerOfThePurse #FederalAgencies #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary #ConstitutionalCrisis #autocracy

  7. Emails Reveal Top #IRS Lawyer Warned #Trump Firings Were a #Fraud on the Courts

    The Trump admin cited “performance” failures to justify its #MassFiring of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the admin had not conducted any such performance assessment.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #DOGE #Musk #TrumpPurge #Congress #PowerOfThePurse #FederalAgencies #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary #ConstitutionalCrisis #authoritarianism
    propublica.org/article/trump-i

  8. Congress holds the power of the purse according to the Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7.

    Congress should be disbursing funds from the US Treasury itself, directly.

    Other Treasury functions can be shifted to other executive agencies, but the spending of the Treasury’s money is theirs.

    #USpol #Constitution #Congress #Treasury #PowerOfThePurse

  9. Online news analysts Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali “...break down the authoritarian power grab and the indispensable programs – from Medicaid to school lunches – that [Don Trump's #project2025 initiative to scrap all programs which use public funding to serve public needs, ie, to vaporize #publicGoods to the ultimate benefit of private equity] targets under the guise of eliminating programs that 'advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies.'

    “YouTube star Brian Tyler Cohen also joins the show to discuss how Democrats are massively failing to respond while Trump and his MAGA base wreak havoc on the country...”

    #powerGrab #dissolutionOfSeparation #separationOfPowers #wealthTransfer #savingsTransfer #investmentsTransfer #dismantlement #heritageFoundation #corporateSocialism #MAGAplunder #constitution #headlines #news #powerOfThePurse
    poketube.fun/watch?v=jSFq7sLeH