Waste and fraud — or outright corruption? We can see what this administration is doing: Almost every hour of every day, its actions are pushed directly in our faces. The majority in Congress owns it, from top to bottom. Yet Congress remains effectively neutered.
So, you’re decrying 'corruption' over routine government dysfunction that Democrats tolerated for years. The $93.4 billion in late-year DoD obligations—including oddball items like lobster and furniture—stems directly from Congress's longstanding 'use it or lose it' budgeting rules. This bipartisan failure has persisted under Obama and Biden alike. In an $800+ billion defense budget, it's significant but structural, not evidence of personal graft by Secretary Hegseth. The real issue lies with legislators who set the perverse incentives.
On child care, Congress inserted roughly $30 billion into the FY2026 bill. The administration is right to redirect this to the states. There is no constitutional federal role here, and states are better positioned on costs and needs. With trillion-dollar deficits and priorities like defense and borders, this is federalism, not indifference.
Republicans passed the appropriations; Democrats' selective outrage ignores Biden-era waste on green energy, improper payments, and other areas. Waste is a real problem requiring biennial budgeting, entitlement reform, and major cuts. Shifting power from D.C. to states and focusing on core national functions is the prudent path.
As usual MEPD, you deflect the main point and pivot to nonsense. Congress made the decision to spend the money on child care, Trump doesn't get to unilaterally decide not to spend money Congress has allocated. He keeps trying this and the courts keep smacking him down, and they will again when someone files a lawsuit to correctly force the payment.
The nonsense portion is that green energy is waste, or that there was any sort of widespread waste. As DOGE found out, waste, fraud, and abuse were tiny in comparison to their unsupported claims. Any large organization or bureaucracy is inefficient, it comes with the sheer size.
If you paid attention to what the letter writer included you'd notice that Trump was basically saying we couldn't afford to take care of our people because of his foolish decision to start a war. Government doesn't work like that. You can't just start a war of choice and siphon off funding for everything else to pay for your stupidity, it's un-constitutional. Nor can you simply pawn it off on the states, another ridiculous Trump claim that only a true TDS sufferer like yourself wouldn't see right through as a patently absurd excuse to steal funding for his pet projects illegally.
We do agree on one thing; the way we budget needs to change. Not only the use-it-or-lose-it aspect, but also the ridiculous and repetitive fights over funding that's already been allocated that keep leading to shutdowns. Trump exacerbates an already bad situation with his buffoonish blustering and inability to negotiate, but the system makes no sense. Once the budget is approved there shouldn't later be a fight over paying for it.
One thing you notably avoid is the unprecedented corruption going on in the current administration, but that's how cult members roll. No accountability for their dear leader, only fawning, unquestioning fealty.
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So, you’re decrying 'corruption' over routine government dysfunction that Democrats tolerated for years. The $93.4 billion in late-year DoD obligations—including oddball items like lobster and furniture—stems directly from Congress's longstanding 'use it or lose it' budgeting rules. This bipartisan failure has persisted under Obama and Biden alike. In an $800+ billion defense budget, it's significant but structural, not evidence of personal graft by Secretary Hegseth. The real issue lies with legislators who set the perverse incentives.
On child care, Congress inserted roughly $30 billion into the FY2026 bill. The administration is right to redirect this to the states. There is no constitutional federal role here, and states are better positioned on costs and needs. With trillion-dollar deficits and priorities like defense and borders, this is federalism, not indifference.
Republicans passed the appropriations; Democrats' selective outrage ignores Biden-era waste on green energy, improper payments, and other areas. Waste is a real problem requiring biennial budgeting, entitlement reform, and major cuts. Shifting power from D.C. to states and focusing on core national functions is the prudent path.
As usual MEPD, you deflect the main point and pivot to nonsense. Congress made the decision to spend the money on child care, Trump doesn't get to unilaterally decide not to spend money Congress has allocated. He keeps trying this and the courts keep smacking him down, and they will again when someone files a lawsuit to correctly force the payment.
The nonsense portion is that green energy is waste, or that there was any sort of widespread waste. As DOGE found out, waste, fraud, and abuse were tiny in comparison to their unsupported claims. Any large organization or bureaucracy is inefficient, it comes with the sheer size.
If you paid attention to what the letter writer included you'd notice that Trump was basically saying we couldn't afford to take care of our people because of his foolish decision to start a war. Government doesn't work like that. You can't just start a war of choice and siphon off funding for everything else to pay for your stupidity, it's un-constitutional. Nor can you simply pawn it off on the states, another ridiculous Trump claim that only a true TDS sufferer like yourself wouldn't see right through as a patently absurd excuse to steal funding for his pet projects illegally.
We do agree on one thing; the way we budget needs to change. Not only the use-it-or-lose-it aspect, but also the ridiculous and repetitive fights over funding that's already been allocated that keep leading to shutdowns. Trump exacerbates an already bad situation with his buffoonish blustering and inability to negotiate, but the system makes no sense. Once the budget is approved there shouldn't later be a fight over paying for it.
One thing you notably avoid is the unprecedented corruption going on in the current administration, but that's how cult members roll. No accountability for their dear leader, only fawning, unquestioning fealty.
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