Funny how all the "they should leave and get back in line" people (when discussing things like vegetable picking and house building) aren't getting their way for the H1B folks - or even suggesting it.
Yes, passed after the last furlough. Doesn't change the impacts from having people not work however - including Congressional staff.
And even if you are going to be back paid, why is it appropriate for feds to be forced to work with no pay coming in simply because Congress can't do it's job? Those folks include our weather forecasters, and a bunch of law enforcement personnel.
For those who care, when appropriations lapse tonight, 809K federal civil servants will be furloughed and can not legally work or be paid. I'm in this first group. 617K will be required to work, but will not be paid until any furlough ends. Interestingly, 774K will be working and will be paid. The WaPo has a breakdown by Agency of which is which:
If everyone else's trials go forth, and if they result in convictions, then his "win" becomes harder to defend, and it forces the GOP to keep having to defend the indefensible - which they clearly don't want to do.
That aside, I'd much rather the wheels turn slowly then not at all.
Based on the available reporting, the cases (there are 16) will be handed off to another prosecutor by a state board of some kind if Willis looses the State Supreme Court Appeal. Which means the co-defendants will start going to trial next year. Enough convictions or additional guilty pleas, and Trump will find an interesting retirement gift waiting for him IF he leaves in 2029.
I suspends the debt ceiling through 2027, which will be plenty long enough to shove through more tax cuts. Now we will see if that, and the $100 BN disaster relief package (or the $10 BN Farm aid package) are enough to placate Dear Leader so all his people fall in line.
I don't want to help them live in squalor. I do want to help them live. And that MAY mean not forcing them into treatment. It may mean needle exchanges for clean needles, hot soup and warm sleeping bags. But I bet if you told an addict she could move to a tiny house with solid walls and regular meals she'd do it even without consenting to coerced treatment.
Regardless, "experiencing homelessness" for whatever reason is a labeling that grants humanity to the person. And you can't really intervene until you do that.
Calling someone homeless implies that they are intrinsically in that state. Inherently flawed to a point that lacking a steady residence is the only outcome that could be ascribed to them. Like calling someone fat or stupid.
Saying someone is experiencing homelessness means that they are in a stage of their lives and that they can be helped out of it. And maybe that just means rent assistance; maybe it means treatment for addiction. Fundamentally it means they are humans living in a set of conditions.
…and, making sure that the IRA is delivering and *everyone knows its delivering* is something the President does so that his party wins elections and keeps delivering.
Since it passed, the President has made a number of speeches citing its impacts. His press secretary has given dozens of briefings. The media hasn't chosen to emphasize this. You lay this at the White House's feet why exactly?
Like the WSJ one that started this thread? The part that's not paywalled doesn't say what you think it does Jay, at least not to anyone who works for the Administration.
However, the appellate court denied a motion from Trump and his co-defendants to dismiss the indictment entirely, saying it “cannot conclude the record also supports the imposition” of that “extreme sanction.”
Translation - she might not get to run the trials, but the trials can go forward. This is important.
The IRA is a bad example - each executive branch agency has bene required since the Act was passed tor report on how they are spending the funds. Not unlike all the other reporting activities agencies are required to publish annually. The White House rolls all that up via OMB and publishes it:
Now you may not be reading about this in the media because its an example of the fact that government largely works, and that's not a click bait worthy headline. But saying no one knows what's going on is not true.
Notably they didn't toss the indictment, so if she looses her appeal to the state Supreme Court (not a given) she could potentially pass of the trials to another county and the trials could go forward.
White Houses of both political stripes during my almost 24 years have functioned by a President making big decisions on course setting, and leaving the navigation to the cabinet secretaries and the civil service. In many cases cabinet Secretaries do set policy in their areas of jurisdiction because that's what they are there for when the President has no engagement one way or the other. The Transpiration Secretary might ask the President how he feels about additional funding for heavy rail transit - which is a policy issue - but the Secretary may not get a response and have to decide for themselves. Nothing - including this article - suggest even the Biden White House has deviated form this model.
What about him? His Alzheimer's wasn't apparent until the last year or so of his second term, and was described subsequently as mild enough to be not a big deal.
Not that it matters much since he couldn't get reelected in the GOP nowdays.
Well so should the $100 BN that is attached for disaster relief and the Farm Bill Reauthorization language, but Congress seems to prefer to do things this way.
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Funny how all the "they should leave and get back in line" people (when discussing things like vegetable picking and house building) aren't getting their way for the H1B folks - or even suggesting it.
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Yes, passed after the last furlough. Doesn't change the impacts from having people not work however - including Congressional staff.
And even if you are going to be back paid, why is it appropriate for feds to be forced to work with no pay coming in simply because Congress can't do it's job? Those folks include our weather forecasters, and a bunch of law enforcement personnel.
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For those who care, when appropriations lapse tonight, 809K federal civil servants will be furloughed and can not legally work or be paid. I'm in this first group. 617K will be required to work, but will not be paid until any furlough ends. Interestingly, 774K will be working and will be paid. The WaPo has a breakdown by Agency of which is which:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2023/which-federal-employees-work-furloughed-government-shutdown/
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Second.
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If everyone else's trials go forth, and if they result in convictions, then his "win" becomes harder to defend, and it forces the GOP to keep having to defend the indefensible - which they clearly don't want to do.
That aside, I'd much rather the wheels turn slowly then not at all.
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Based on the available reporting, the cases (there are 16) will be handed off to another prosecutor by a state board of some kind if Willis looses the State Supreme Court Appeal. Which means the co-defendants will start going to trial next year. Enough convictions or additional guilty pleas, and Trump will find an interesting retirement gift waiting for him IF he leaves in 2029.
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Another not shocking failure of Democrats in the face of the military industrial complex.
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I suspends the debt ceiling through 2027, which will be plenty long enough to shove through more tax cuts. Now we will see if that, and the $100 BN disaster relief package (or the $10 BN Farm aid package) are enough to placate Dear Leader so all his people fall in line.
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I don't want to help them live in squalor. I do want to help them live. And that MAY mean not forcing them into treatment. It may mean needle exchanges for clean needles, hot soup and warm sleeping bags. But I bet if you told an addict she could move to a tiny house with solid walls and regular meals she'd do it even without consenting to coerced treatment.
Regardless, "experiencing homelessness" for whatever reason is a labeling that grants humanity to the person. And you can't really intervene until you do that.
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Calling someone homeless implies that they are intrinsically in that state. Inherently flawed to a point that lacking a steady residence is the only outcome that could be ascribed to them. Like calling someone fat or stupid.
Saying someone is experiencing homelessness means that they are in a stage of their lives and that they can be helped out of it. And maybe that just means rent assistance; maybe it means treatment for addiction. Fundamentally it means they are humans living in a set of conditions.
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Agreed.
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I'm not gonna get a pass to the people ignoring all the messaging the WH has done on this. You shouldn't either.
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She hasn't been allowed to go to trial yet. Which is her fault to some extent. But not completely.
And this judgement says the indictment still stands. SO she could delegate to another DA. And take it to trial.
And frankly, the same could be said of Merrick garland, or the Senate GOP after the second impeachment.
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She was reelected. YMMV as to whether that was a good idea or not, though sleeping with her special prosecutor wasn't.
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Since it passed, the President has made a number of speeches citing its impacts. His press secretary has given dozens of briefings. The media hasn't chosen to emphasize this. You lay this at the White House's feet why exactly?
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Like the WSJ one that started this thread? The part that's not paywalled doesn't say what you think it does Jay, at least not to anyone who works for the Administration.
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And you have citable evidence this Administration hasn't done these things as the Presidential level?
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Translation - she might not get to run the trials, but the trials can go forward. This is important.
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The IRA is a bad example - each executive branch agency has bene required since the Act was passed tor report on how they are spending the funds. Not unlike all the other reporting activities agencies are required to publish annually. The White House rolls all that up via OMB and publishes it:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/16/fact-sheet-two-years-in-the-inflation-reduction-act-is-lowering-costs-for-millions-of-americans-tackling-the-climate-crisis-and-creating-jobs/
Now you may not be reading about this in the media because its an example of the fact that government largely works, and that's not a click bait worthy headline. But saying no one knows what's going on is not true.
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My guess would be a senior level Defense analyst who sold the idea to her service chief who sold it to the Joint Chiefs Chair who sold it to Biden.
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Notably they didn't toss the indictment, so if she looses her appeal to the state Supreme Court (not a given) she could potentially pass of the trials to another county and the trials could go forward.
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White Houses of both political stripes during my almost 24 years have functioned by a President making big decisions on course setting, and leaving the navigation to the cabinet secretaries and the civil service. In many cases cabinet Secretaries do set policy in their areas of jurisdiction because that's what they are there for when the President has no engagement one way or the other. The Transpiration Secretary might ask the President how he feels about additional funding for heavy rail transit - which is a policy issue - but the Secretary may not get a response and have to decide for themselves. Nothing - including this article - suggest even the Biden White House has deviated form this model.
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What about him? His Alzheimer's wasn't apparent until the last year or so of his second term, and was described subsequently as mild enough to be not a big deal.
Not that it matters much since he couldn't get reelected in the GOP nowdays.
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That would be the same as in any Administration - the career civil servants. Above that it really doesn't matter much.
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Well so should the $100 BN that is attached for disaster relief and the Farm Bill Reauthorization language, but Congress seems to prefer to do things this way.