Trump in office

[Lokmar]

Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, threatening to yank funding from states that fail to make efforts to secure elections.

My daughter in Florida was saying the inferwebz is buzzing about blue states allowing voting for everyone without I.D. and how red staters should flood California, New York, and Illinois on election day and turn those states RED!     

[Lokmar]

The head of the United Auto Workers is praising President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on vehicles and parts entering the U.S. from other countries including Canada.

"We applaud the Trump administration for stepping up to end the free trade disaster that has devastated working class communities for decades," UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement Wednesday evening. "This is a long-overdue shift away from a harmful economic framework that has devastated the working class and driven a race to the bottom across borders in the auto industry."

I disagree with the UAW boss.

The UAW can fuck itself, however DJT IS bringing manufacturing back to America!!!!!

[Thiel]

Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday he will cut about 10,000 full-time jobs from the Cabinet department in a dramatic reduction that includes closing half its regional offices as part of a wider Trump administration overhaul of the federal government.

Combined with HHS employees who previously accepted buyouts and others who were already fired, the agency's workforce will be sliced by one-quarter from 82,000 full-time employees to 62,000 since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

I'd never thought I see the day where I actually liked any member of the Kennedy family.  Bravo Robert, you are DA MAN!!   

[DKG]

The UAW can fuck itself, however DJT IS bringing manufacturing back to America!!!!!

What the UAW forgets is that the auto sector in North America does not recognize the border between Canada and the US. Auto parts cross freely. The Canadian and American auto industry is totally integrated.

[DKG]

Trump is a fucking genius. No one should doubt him EVER!!! I did a few times, then I realized it was ME who was the idiot.

It's too early yet to know if Trump's trade agenda will succeed or not. I think he will have to back down on a lot of it. Particularly trade with Canada.

[Lokmar]

It's too early yet to know if Trump's trade agenda will succeed or not. I think he will have to back down on a lot of it. Particularly trade with Canada.

He's already succeeded in getting a lot of jobs moved here. The company I work for was planning on doing a lot of production out of the country and they've literally slammed the brakes on that shit.

[Brent]

The head of the United Auto Workers is praising President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on vehicles and parts entering the U.S. from other countries including Canada.

"We applaud the Trump administration for stepping up to end the free trade disaster that has devastated working class communities for decades," UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement Wednesday evening. "This is a long-overdue shift away from a harmful economic framework that has devastated the working class and driven a race to the bottom across borders in the auto industry."

I disagree with the UAW boss.

He is a good union boss. He is protecting American jobs. My old union boss supported things that would cost Canadian jobs.

[DKG]

The administration's departure from the Paris agreement and climate funding freeze represent a big win for US farmers, cutting out wasteful spending and allowing American agriculture to thrive.

While news about President Trump's tariffs and crackdowns on the questionable financial management of federal agencies has dominated media reports in recent weeks, a quiet transformation has been under way in agricultural policy.

An order to remove climate change references from U.S. Department of Agriculture websites signals a departure from the red tape of climate regulations on domestic farming practices and strings attached to U.S. support of agriculture abroad.

Through the U.S. Agency for International Development, the federal government poured millions of dollars into climate-focused programs that could have no positive effect on the climate — promoting "green" orthodoxy over agricultural productivity.

Wasted climate dollars
Some of these programs have been intertwined with other activities in rural agrarian communities. USAID and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, for example, joined in a "$55 million credit guarantee to address the economic impact of COVID-19 by supporting loans to farmer producer organizations, ag-tech companies, and companies engaged in clean energy solutions for the agriculture sector." A $1.5 million program aimed at "empowering" female climate activists in northern Kenya.

USAID also partnered with organizations like the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, which operates in developing countries and focuses on so-called research themes that include "low-emissions" development, climate services and safety nets, scaling "climate-smart" agriculture, and gender and social inclusion.

All these expenditures came under the umbrella of USAID's 2022-2030 climate strategy, a $150 billion "whole-of-agency approach" to establish an "equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.'

Climate mandates stifle farming
USAID's financial support for farmers and businesses has been contingent on adherence to an absurd climate agenda and perverse views of human nature that have nothing to do with feeding hungry people.

The administration's freeze on this funding cuts off money to hundreds of such programs that interfered with the employment of sensible farming practices in places like Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

It's not just farmers abroad who will benefit from the dismantlement of USAID's climate initiatives. Among the first casualties of the current policy shift will be the unscientific $3.1 billion program to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions on farms across 55 U.S. states and territories through 135 projects.

Imagine a program intended to help crops grow but that robs them of the carbon dioxide that enables photosynthesis. CO2 is necessary for plant life — and ultimately all life.

NASA credits the greening of much of the planet over the past 100 years to the increase in atmospheric CO2. Programs that seek to lower carbon dioxide levels are destructive — period.

[DKG]

The Trump administration's termination of the CHNV program has left over 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela at risk of deportation. Originally designed to provide refuge and work permits for those fleeing dire conditions, the program has been deemed ineffective by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). They argued it failed to address illegal immigration and created resource management challenges.

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

The Trump administration's termination of the CHNV program has left over 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela at risk of deportation. Originally designed to provide refuge and work permits for those fleeing dire conditions, the program has been deemed ineffective by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). They argued it failed to address illegal immigration and created resource management challenges.

Good.  Start shipping those idiots back where they came from.

[DKG]

Good.  Start shipping those idiots back where they came from.

I thought Cubans could not be deported before I posted that article.

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

I thought Cubans could not be deported before I posted that article.

They could be the ones that showed up here only in recent years.

[Thiel]

Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act
The Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act, as the name suggests, helps make it easier for Cuban citizens to escape Cuba and get permanent residence in the United States. Any Cuban citizen who has been inspected, admitted or paroled into the United States can apply for a Green Card after living in the United States for one year. The spouse and young children of Cuban citizens can use this law to get a Green Card, even if they are not Cuban citizens themselves. Someone who was born in Cuba but becomes a citizen elsewhere can get a Green Card under this law.

Furthermore, a Cuban who has had a family based petition approved can be paroled into the United States while he or she is waiting for a Green Card. The United States government also runs a lottery that allows Cuban citizens to migrate to the U.S.
https://www.politicalasylumusa.com/countries/cuba-refugees/

[Brent]

Health and Human Services Secretary RFK said "We have a sprawling bureaucracy that has all kinds of redundancies and a lot of administrative costs."

He explained that HHS under the Biden administration saw a 38% budget increase and a 17% increase in staff despite declining public health.

Kennedy noted that he plans to consolidate the agency's more than 100 communications, 40 IT, and 40 human resources departments. He stated that with the extreme bloat, the agency had become "impossible" to govern, inspire, and unify its mission.

"These different agencies' divisions were living in silos. And sometimes they devolved into kind of fiefdoms where they were at war with each other," he continued. "I found out that medical information that is collected by one silo, they then sell it to the other groups in my agency, instead of sharing it and saying, 'How do we use this in a way to improve patient care? How do we use it in a way to make people healthy?'"

"We're cutting down 28 divisions into 15," he added.

Kennedy said that under the Trump administration, HHS would focus on cleaning up the nation's food supply, including improving baby formula, ending the use of Generally Recognized as Safe standards, and removing dyes, chemicals, and seed oils contributing to the chronic disease epidemic.

He also stated that HHS is currently preparing new nutrition guidelines, which he estimated would include a three-page document advocating for whole foods.