What’s the healcare program that the Baffoon will implement anyone know maybe BS knows ..
It doesn't matter what healthcare program he implements, whether its Obamacare or whatever...it will remain substandard to most of us with common sense...and yes Obamacare is substandard healthcare.
20 plus million folks depend on it yes it’s not perfect and it needs tweaking , so what do you suggest just get rid of it and leave 20 million folks with no insurance..
I suggest you demand universal healthcare. I am in Canada, here is how it works...if sick, just show health card to whoever you need treatment from...no money exchanges hands, and my doctor is free to order any test HE feels necessary and does not have to consult the government (who provides the service) to make sure he gets paid. All test are covered the same way. That's the way it should be. Is it perfect, hell no, it can be improved...but no one is left without healthcare. I was born into this country with universal healthcare, my parents remember a time without universal healthcare...needless to say, they prefer this system. I had kidney stones a few years back and needed a surgical procedure, went to the hospital, signed a few papers, had the procedure, spent the night in the hospital, next day nurse made me piss until there was no blood in urine and sent me home. Did not cost me more than a signature...of course, tax dollars pay for it.
Yes but but this president & GOP don’t want universal health care they want people to just fend for themselves ! Or bluntly put they want folks to die or fuck off ..
To be fair, he only wants immigrants to die. He would like citizens to fuck off. Please give proper humanitarian credit where appropriate.
Except his wife of course.... well, shit, you never know? Lol
Well, he was off fucking porn stars bareback while she was birthing Baron, so I don't think he cares a whole lot about her.
Baron. that kid is going to be right fucked up.
From the look on his face any time he's seen in public, I would suggest that he already is.
And yeah, I'm sure Trump wouldn't at all mind if his wife was dead - he would feel that's a lot easier and cheaper than another divorce... and if she doesn't file for divorce the second he's out of office, then she's even weirder than I thought.
absolutely it's all about finances for him.
she might not want the spectacle of a presidential divorce. there's most likely a reason very few (any?) presidential couples have gotten divorced over the years.
No President has ever been divorced while in office. Clinton, FDR and JFK (and I'm sure others) had affairs but managed to keep the marriage together while in office and after.
Reagan is the only President who had been divorced at all, but he was married to his then current wife long before and long after the Presidency..
What’s the healcare program that the Baffoon will implement anyone know maybe BS knows ..
It doesn't matter what healthcare program he implements, whether its Obamacare or whatever...it will remain substandard to most of us with common sense...and yes Obamacare is substandard healthcare.
20 plus million folks depend on it yes it’s not perfect and it needs tweaking , so what do you suggest just get rid of it and leave 20 million folks with no insurance..
I suggest you demand universal healthcare. I am in Canada, here is how it works...if sick, just show health card to whoever you need treatment from...no money exchanges hands, and my doctor is free to order any test HE feels necessary and does not have to consult the government (who provides the service) to make sure he gets paid. All test are covered the same way. That's the way it should be. Is it perfect, hell no, it can be improved...but no one is left without healthcare. I was born into this country with universal healthcare, my parents remember a time without universal healthcare...needless to say, they prefer this system. I had kidney stones a few years back and needed a surgical procedure, went to the hospital, signed a few papers, had the procedure, spent the night in the hospital, next day nurse made me piss until there was no blood in urine and sent me home. Did not cost me more than a signature...of course, tax dollars pay for it.
Yes but but this president & GOP don’t want universal health care they want people to just fend for themselves ! Or bluntly put they want folks to die or fuck off ..
To be fair, he only wants immigrants to die. He would like citizens to fuck off. Please give proper humanitarian credit where appropriate.
Except his wife of course.... well, shit, you never know? Lol
Well, he was off fucking porn stars bareback while she was birthing Baron, so I don't think he cares a whole lot about her.
Baron. that kid is going to be right fucked up.
From the look on his face any time he's seen in public, I would suggest that he already is.
And yeah, I'm sure Trump wouldn't at all mind if his wife was dead - he would feel that's a lot easier and cheaper than another divorce... and if she doesn't file for divorce the second he's out of office, then she's even weirder than I thought.
And if it was timed right, he'd get some sympathy vote in 2000.
She won't divorce him - they undoubtedly have a solid pre-nup (and NDA's of all sorts).
She'll raise her kid, sleep in her own suite and wait for him to kick the bucket. She'd gain more $$ & property as the grieving widow, even after Ivanka gets her chunk.
Sounds harsh, but she didn't marry him for his looks or charm. And she made sure she got pregnant cause that sealed the marriage deal. Also citizenship for her family - you know - chain migration.
I guess you don't believe in true love. How very cynical of you.
Trump and De Vos are the scum of the Earth - absolutely pieces of foul shit - clearly. But I'm glad they were forced to back off this one.
Trump says he is rescinding his proposed cut to Special Olympics budget amid a bipartisan outcry
President Trump said Thursday he wants the federal
government to continue funding the Special Olympics, an abrupt reversal
from his own budget proposal that eliminated federal money for the
charity and sparked bipartisan condemnation.
His
statement on the South Lawn of the White House came after his education
secretary, Betsy DeVos, spent three days defending the proposal, most
recently at a contentious Senate hearing Thursday morning.
“The Special Olympics will be funded, I just told my people,” Trump told reporters.
The
funding was never in any real jeopardy, with key Republicans vowing to
maintain the allocation. But the matter was quickly becoming a political
problem for the president.
Special Olympics,
which gives people with intellectual disabilities the chance to compete
in athletics on a world stage, has long enjoyed robust and bipartisan
support.
For
the third year, the Trump budget had proposed to end federal support
for the organization. The issue received scant attention in years past,
as lawmakers ignored the Trump proposal and instead increased the
charity’s funding, which stands at $17.6 million this year.
Sen.
Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) grilled DeVos about her plan to eliminate
federal funding for Special Olympics. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)
But
after DeVos was questioned about her budget plan at a congressional
hearing Tuesday, word spread quickly. She drew widespread and withering
attacks that extended beyond the partisan back-and-forth in Washington.
“Look,
I’m not perfect but at least my obituary won’t say, ‘and in 2019, he
defunded the Special Olympics,’ ” comedian Conan O’Brien wrote on
Twitter.
Supporters of the Special Olympics posted photos of family members’ medals
earned at the Games. Others contrasted the money spent on the program
to Trump’s request for a border wall and to the price of DeVos’s family
yacht.
The
debate was poised to extend into the presidential campaign, serving as a
proxy fight over the role of government and American values. Democrats
contrasted this proposed cut against tax breaks benefiting the
wealthiest Americans.
Republicans led by DeVos make the case that Special Olympics is a well-funded charity that can fend for itself.
On
Thursday morning, DeVos told a Senate panel that Democratic attacks on
the proposal were “disgusting” and “shameful.” Matt Wolking, deputy
communications director for the Trump campaign, went further, suggesting
Democrats who support abortion rights are hypocrites for supporting
Special Olympics, whose competitors include people with Down syndrome.
“I’m
sure Democrats who see abortion as the cure for Down syndrome and other
disabilities are sincerely concerned about kids having the chance to be
in the Special Olympics,” Wolking wrote on Twitter.
At
a Senate appropriations hearing Thursday, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who
chairs the education subcommittee, predicted Congress would again ignore
most of the Education Department cuts proposed by the White House.
“There
are programs here that are unlikely to be eliminated in any final
budget,” Blunt said. A day earlier, he voiced support for funding
Special Olympics in particular.
Wolking and
DeVos noted that Special Olympics is not a government program and that
it benefits from private support. The Education Department contribution
represents about 10 percent of the group’s annual budget.
Sen.
Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) asked DeVos whether she had personally
approved the proposal. She said she had not but defended the decision as
the result of necessary “tough choices.”
She added that she loves the organization and has donated a portion of her salary to support its work.
“I
hope all of this debate encourages lots of private contributions to
Special Olympics,” she said. Then addressing Democratic critics of the
decision, she said: “So let’s not use disabled children in a twisted way
for your political narrative. That is just disgusting, and it’s
shameful.”
“Madam Secretary, let me tell you
what,” Durbin shot back. “Eliminating $18 million out of a $70 or
$80 billion budget I think is shameful, too. I’m not twisting it.”
For
three years, President Trump has proposed steep cuts to the Education
Department. The final budget plan sent to Congress would cut about
$8.5 billion in spending from the agency, a 12 percent reduction.
There
was no indication whether anyone inside the administration fought to
keep the Special Olympics funding. Eliminating the funding has been part
of all three Trump budgets.
On Thursday, DeVos said she was speaking for the administration, not herself, in defending the plan.
“As
you know, [the] budget process within the administration is a
collaborative one, and it’s been my responsibility to present the budget
here on behalf of the administration, the president’s budget,” she told
Durbin. “We had to make tough choices and decisions around the budget
priorities.”
She said the administration
emphasized maintaining funding for higher-priority programs, such as
major initiatives that support schools with low-income children and
special-education services in schools.
Pressed on whether she approved the cut to Special Olympics, DeVos said, “No, I didn’t personally get involved.”
Durbin replied by shifting the blame to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.
“Whoever
came up with that at OMB gets a Special Olympics gold medal for
insensitivity,” he said. “To think that we can’t spend $18 million to
support this dramatically successful venture.”
Others
were frustrated by the attention to Special Olympics when Education
Department programs that serve far more people were also cut or capped.
Sasha Pudelski of AASA, the School Superintendents Association, noted
that the Trump budget proposed flat funding for programs supporting
low-income children and children with disabilities.
“Can
we pls stop talking about the never-gonna-happen cuts to the Special
Olympics and start talking about real impact of budget caps to programs
like IDEA and Title 1?” she wrote on Twitter. “Lets discuss the real
funding issues for K-12 Ed advocates.”
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
The program, known within the drug agency as USTO (a play on call going from the United States to other countries), was carried out in part by the department’s Criminal Division, run at the time by Robert Mueller
Interesting that it was run by everybodys hero, Bobby Mueller.
Also it continued through Clinton, Bush, and into the 2nd Obama term until Edward Snowden dropped knowledge. One mans "traitor" is another mans Daniel Ellsberg
Trump and De Vos are the scum of the Earth - absolutely pieces of foul shit - clearly. But I'm glad they were forced to back off this one.
Trump says he is rescinding his proposed cut to Special Olympics budget amid a bipartisan outcry
President Trump said Thursday he wants the federal
government to continue funding the Special Olympics, an abrupt reversal
from his own budget proposal that eliminated federal money for the
charity and sparked bipartisan condemnation.
His
statement on the South Lawn of the White House came after his education
secretary, Betsy DeVos, spent three days defending the proposal, most
recently at a contentious Senate hearing Thursday morning.
“The Special Olympics will be funded, I just told my people,” Trump told reporters.
The
funding was never in any real jeopardy, with key Republicans vowing to
maintain the allocation. But the matter was quickly becoming a political
problem for the president.
Special Olympics,
which gives people with intellectual disabilities the chance to compete
in athletics on a world stage, has long enjoyed robust and bipartisan
support.
For
the third year, the Trump budget had proposed to end federal support
for the organization. The issue received scant attention in years past,
as lawmakers ignored the Trump proposal and instead increased the
charity’s funding, which stands at $17.6 million this year.
Sen.
Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) grilled DeVos about her plan to eliminate
federal funding for Special Olympics. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)
But
after DeVos was questioned about her budget plan at a congressional
hearing Tuesday, word spread quickly. She drew widespread and withering
attacks that extended beyond the partisan back-and-forth in Washington.
“Look,
I’m not perfect but at least my obituary won’t say, ‘and in 2019, he
defunded the Special Olympics,’ ” comedian Conan O’Brien wrote on
Twitter.
Supporters of the Special Olympics posted photos of family members’ medals
earned at the Games. Others contrasted the money spent on the program
to Trump’s request for a border wall and to the price of DeVos’s family
yacht.
The
debate was poised to extend into the presidential campaign, serving as a
proxy fight over the role of government and American values. Democrats
contrasted this proposed cut against tax breaks benefiting the
wealthiest Americans.
Republicans led by DeVos make the case that Special Olympics is a well-funded charity that can fend for itself.
On
Thursday morning, DeVos told a Senate panel that Democratic attacks on
the proposal were “disgusting” and “shameful.” Matt Wolking, deputy
communications director for the Trump campaign, went further, suggesting
Democrats who support abortion rights are hypocrites for supporting
Special Olympics, whose competitors include people with Down syndrome.
“I’m
sure Democrats who see abortion as the cure for Down syndrome and other
disabilities are sincerely concerned about kids having the chance to be
in the Special Olympics,” Wolking wrote on Twitter.
At
a Senate appropriations hearing Thursday, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who
chairs the education subcommittee, predicted Congress would again ignore
most of the Education Department cuts proposed by the White House.
“There
are programs here that are unlikely to be eliminated in any final
budget,” Blunt said. A day earlier, he voiced support for funding
Special Olympics in particular.
Wolking and
DeVos noted that Special Olympics is not a government program and that
it benefits from private support. The Education Department contribution
represents about 10 percent of the group’s annual budget.
Sen.
Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) asked DeVos whether she had personally
approved the proposal. She said she had not but defended the decision as
the result of necessary “tough choices.”
She added that she loves the organization and has donated a portion of her salary to support its work.
“I
hope all of this debate encourages lots of private contributions to
Special Olympics,” she said. Then addressing Democratic critics of the
decision, she said: “So let’s not use disabled children in a twisted way
for your political narrative. That is just disgusting, and it’s
shameful.”
“Madam Secretary, let me tell you
what,” Durbin shot back. “Eliminating $18 million out of a $70 or
$80 billion budget I think is shameful, too. I’m not twisting it.”
For
three years, President Trump has proposed steep cuts to the Education
Department. The final budget plan sent to Congress would cut about
$8.5 billion in spending from the agency, a 12 percent reduction.
There
was no indication whether anyone inside the administration fought to
keep the Special Olympics funding. Eliminating the funding has been part
of all three Trump budgets.
On Thursday, DeVos said she was speaking for the administration, not herself, in defending the plan.
“As
you know, [the] budget process within the administration is a
collaborative one, and it’s been my responsibility to present the budget
here on behalf of the administration, the president’s budget,” she told
Durbin. “We had to make tough choices and decisions around the budget
priorities.”
She said the administration
emphasized maintaining funding for higher-priority programs, such as
major initiatives that support schools with low-income children and
special-education services in schools.
Pressed on whether she approved the cut to Special Olympics, DeVos said, “No, I didn’t personally get involved.”
Durbin replied by shifting the blame to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.
“Whoever
came up with that at OMB gets a Special Olympics gold medal for
insensitivity,” he said. “To think that we can’t spend $18 million to
support this dramatically successful venture.”
Others
were frustrated by the attention to Special Olympics when Education
Department programs that serve far more people were also cut or capped.
Sasha Pudelski of AASA, the School Superintendents Association, noted
that the Trump budget proposed flat funding for programs supporting
low-income children and children with disabilities.
“Can
we pls stop talking about the never-gonna-happen cuts to the Special
Olympics and start talking about real impact of budget caps to programs
like IDEA and Title 1?” she wrote on Twitter. “Lets discuss the real
funding issues for K-12 Ed advocates.”
You can bet your bottom $ that if reporters are not finding out about such issues he would def go ahead and do this he doesn’t give a hoot about kids with disabilities, see flailing arms about the reporter he made fun of ..
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
The program, known within the drug agency as USTO (a play on call going from the United States to other countries), was carried out in part by the department’s Criminal Division, run at the time by Robert Mueller
Interesting that it was run by everybodys hero, Bobby Mueller.
Also it continued through Clinton, Bush, and into the 2nd Obama term until Edward Snowden dropped knowledge. One mans "traitor" is another mans Daniel Ellsberg
See, i read articles lol
Funny how the media slyly shows bias... the headline smearing Barr over this... but glossing over that it was actually overseen by Bobby's division... created under Clinton (you think POTUS isn't aware or greenlights such a project?) and continued through 2 more presidents, including the savior Obama, until they were forced to end it because of Snowden
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
The program, known within the drug agency as USTO (a play on call going from the United States to other countries), was carried out in part by the department’s Criminal Division, run at the time by Robert Mueller
Interesting that it was run by everybodys hero, Bobby Mueller.
Also it continued through Clinton, Bush, and into the 2nd Obama term until Edward Snowden dropped knowledge. One mans "traitor" is another mans Daniel Ellsberg
See, i read articles lol
Funny how the media slyly shows bias... the headline smearing Barr over this... but glossing over that it was actually overseen by Bobby's division... created under Clinton (you think POTUS isn't aware or greenlights such a project?) and continued through 2 more presidents, including the savior Obama, until they were forced to end it because of Snowden
Barr as AG had primary responsibility for the creation and authorization of the program. Team Mueller ran it, “in part,” through his criminal division. Team Mueller didn’t create it, have authorization to tell others to use it and was a likely beneficiary of data collected and passed on. Don’t let your “bias” get in the way. And that’s got Cheney all over it. Once you let the genie out, it’s damn hard to put it back and the repubs have let a shit ton of genies out. LOL.
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
What’s the healcare program that the Baffoon will implement anyone know maybe BS knows ..
It doesn't matter what healthcare program he implements, whether its Obamacare or whatever...it will remain substandard to most of us with common sense...and yes Obamacare is substandard healthcare.
20 plus million folks depend on it yes it’s not perfect and it needs tweaking , so what do you suggest just get rid of it and leave 20 million folks with no insurance..
I suggest you demand universal healthcare. I am in Canada, here is how it works...if sick, just show health card to whoever you need treatment from...no money exchanges hands, and my doctor is free to order any test HE feels necessary and does not have to consult the government (who provides the service) to make sure he gets paid. All test are covered the same way. That's the way it should be. Is it perfect, hell no, it can be improved...but no one is left without healthcare. I was born into this country with universal healthcare, my parents remember a time without universal healthcare...needless to say, they prefer this system. I had kidney stones a few years back and needed a surgical procedure, went to the hospital, signed a few papers, had the procedure, spent the night in the hospital, next day nurse made me piss until there was no blood in urine and sent me home. Did not cost me more than a signature...of course, tax dollars pay for it.
What you just described sounds a lot like......
SOCIALISM!!!!
And where there is SOCIALISM there are..
SOCIALISTS!!!
There will be NO SOCIALISTS in 'murica DAMMIT
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What’s the healcare program that the Baffoon will implement anyone know maybe BS knows ..
It doesn't matter what healthcare program he implements, whether its Obamacare or whatever...it will remain substandard to most of us with common sense...and yes Obamacare is substandard healthcare.
20 plus million folks depend on it yes it’s not perfect and it needs tweaking , so what do you suggest just get rid of it and leave 20 million folks with no insurance..
I suggest you demand universal healthcare. I am in Canada, here is how it works...if sick, just show health card to whoever you need treatment from...no money exchanges hands, and my doctor is free to order any test HE feels necessary and does not have to consult the government (who provides the service) to make sure he gets paid. All test are covered the same way. That's the way it should be. Is it perfect, hell no, it can be improved...but no one is left without healthcare. I was born into this country with universal healthcare, my parents remember a time without universal healthcare...needless to say, they prefer this system. I had kidney stones a few years back and needed a surgical procedure, went to the hospital, signed a few papers, had the procedure, spent the night in the hospital, next day nurse made me piss until there was no blood in urine and sent me home. Did not cost me more than a signature...of course, tax dollars pay for it.
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
Why you mad bro? You love spying on Americans. Barr is one of your boys! You gonna get on the Trump train now?
I’m not mad bro. Just pointing out the hypocrisy. Again.
It’s not polite to point.
It’s also not polite to make allegations and never back them up with links to back your claims or to consume and then belch faux news talking points, even after you’ve been proven wrong. In fact, it’s impolite trolling.
brianlux
Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 40,838
I want to know where it is that Halifax2TheMax said something to indicate a love of spying on Americans. Man, I've heard some far out accusations here before, but this one? Way out.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Trump says he is rescinding his proposed cut to Special Olympics budget amid a bipartisan outcry
This is good to hear. I was probably more pissed off about this than most things Trump has done because my cousin has Down Syndrome, and in my younger days, I had a job working with people with mental disabilities so I have a bit of a bond with folks like that. I mean, really, how could they have the nerve to cut funding for the Special Olympics in the first place when it's only a measly $17 million dollars? Mueller's investigation cost almost twice that. Of course Trump said he had no idea this was even happening. Well yeah, if I had to choose between looking dumb and looking evil, I guess I'd choose dumb too.
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
Why you mad bro? You love spying on Americans. Barr is one of your boys! You gonna get on the Trump train now?
I’m not mad bro. Just pointing out the hypocrisy. Again.
It’s not polite to point.
It’s also not polite to make allegations and never back them up with links to back your claims or to consume and then belch faux news talking points, even after you’ve been proven wrong. In fact, it’s impolite trolling.
I back it up all the time...the only problem is that nothing is ever from one of your approves sources.
Trump says he is rescinding his proposed cut to Special Olympics budget amid a bipartisan outcry
This is good to hear. I was probably more pissed off about this than most things Trump has done because my cousin has Down Syndrome, and in my younger days, I had a job working with people with mental disabilities so I have a bit of a bond with folks like that. I mean, really, how could they have the nerve to cut funding for the Special Olympics in the first place when it's only a measly $17 million dollars? Mueller's investigation cost almost twice that. Of course Trump said he had no idea this was even happening. Well yeah, if I had to choose between looking dumb and looking evil, I guess I'd choose dumb too.
I'm still pissed off about it. The fact that he would do that in the first place make him a ________. (Fill in the blank). Rescinding does not grant him clemency. Probably did it under pressure- surely not from change of heart (assuming he has one).
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Trump says he is rescinding his proposed cut to Special Olympics budget amid a bipartisan outcry
This is good to hear. I was probably more pissed off about this than most things Trump has done because my cousin has Down Syndrome, and in my younger days, I had a job working with people with mental disabilities so I have a bit of a bond with folks like that. I mean, really, how could they have the nerve to cut funding for the Special Olympics in the first place when it's only a measly $17 million dollars? Mueller's investigation cost almost twice that. Of course Trump said he had no idea this was even happening. Well yeah, if I had to choose between looking dumb and looking evil, I guess I'd choose dumb too.
I'm still pissed off about it. The fact that he would do that in the first place make him a ________. (Fill in the blank). Rescinding does not grant him clemency. Probably did it under pressure- surely not from change of heart (assuming he has one).
Oh yeah he only changed his mind because there was bipartisan rage over it. If it was just democrats, he'd dismiss it as snowflakes crying or whatever.
Trump says he is rescinding his proposed cut to Special Olympics budget amid a bipartisan outcry
This is good to hear. I was probably more pissed off about this than most things Trump has done because my cousin has Down Syndrome, and in my younger days, I had a job working with people with mental disabilities so I have a bit of a bond with folks like that. I mean, really, how could they have the nerve to cut funding for the Special Olympics in the first place when it's only a measly $17 million dollars? Mueller's investigation cost almost twice that. Of course Trump said he had no idea this was even happening. Well yeah, if I had to choose between looking dumb and looking evil, I guess I'd choose dumb too.
I'm still pissed off about it. The fact that he would do that in the first place make him a ________. (Fill in the blank). Rescinding does not grant him clemency. Probably did it under pressure- surely not from change of heart (assuming he has one).
Oh yeah he only changed his mind because there was bipartisan rage over it. If it was just democrats, he'd dismiss it as snowflakes crying or whatever.
Yep, exactly!
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
Why you mad bro? You love spying on Americans. Barr is one of your boys! You gonna get on the Trump train now?
I’m not mad bro. Just pointing out the hypocrisy. Again.
It’s not polite to point.
It’s also not polite to make allegations and never back them up with links to back your claims or to consume and then belch faux news talking points, even after you’ve been proven wrong. In fact, it’s impolite trolling.
I back it up all the time...the only problem is that nothing is ever from one of your approves sources.
At this point you might be the only man in America left who believes in it.
The Steele Dossier was not the impetus for opening an investigation into Team Trump Treason or his campaign. You’re going to be sadly disappointed. Further, allegations in the Steele Dossier have been proven true and I find it more likely than less, that Putin on the ritz has kompromant on Team Trump Treason, knowing what we do about his character. I have never claimed everything in the Steele Dossier is true. And the Epoch Times? I’ll read it after I get access to an isolated computer.
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
Why you mad bro? You love spying on Americans. Barr is one of your boys! You gonna get on the Trump train now?
I’m not mad bro. Just pointing out the hypocrisy. Again.
It’s not polite to point.
It’s also not polite to make allegations and never back them up with links to back your claims or to consume and then belch faux news talking points, even after you’ve been proven wrong. In fact, it’s impolite trolling.
I back it up all the time...the only problem is that nothing is ever from one of your approves sources.
At this point you might be the only man in America left who believes in it.
The Steele Dossier was not the impetus for opening an investigation into Team Trump Treason or his campaign. You’re going to be sadly disappointed. Further, allegations in the Steele Dossier have been proven true and I find it more likely than less, that Putin on the ritz has kompromant on Team Trump Treason, knowing what we do about his character. I have never claimed everything in the Steele Dossier is true. And the Epoch Times? I’ll read it after I get access to an isolated computer.
Agreed. The dossier was not the impetus. It was a device used to weaponize the government spying apparatus.
@BS44325 when does Team Trump Treason fire AG Barr for starting a covert surveillance program against Americans by tapping their wires? Maybe we should go back and review the data for Team Trump Treason contacts with Russians? Drain the swamp my ass.
Why you mad bro? You love spying on Americans. Barr is one of your boys! You gonna get on the Trump train now?
I’m not mad bro. Just pointing out the hypocrisy. Again.
It’s not polite to point.
It’s also not polite to make allegations and never back them up with links to back your claims or to consume and then belch faux news talking points, even after you’ve been proven wrong. In fact, it’s impolite trolling.
I back it up all the time...the only problem is that nothing is ever from one of your approves sources.
At this point you might be the only man in America left who believes in it.
The Steele Dossier was not the impetus for opening an investigation into Team Trump Treason or his campaign. You’re going to be sadly disappointed. Further, allegations in the Steele Dossier have been proven true and I find it more likely than less, that Putin on the ritz has kompromant on Team Trump Treason, knowing what we do about his character. I have never claimed everything in the Steele Dossier is true. And the Epoch Times? I’ll read it after I get access to an isolated computer.
Agreed. The dossier was not the impetus. It was a device used to weaponize the government spying apparatus.
First the Moonies, now Falung Gong. What’s next? Hare Kishnas?
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Reagan is the only President who had been divorced at all, but he was married to his then current wife long before and long after the Presidency..
Trump says he is rescinding his proposed cut to Special Olympics budget amid a bipartisan outcry
President Trump said Thursday he wants the federal government to continue funding the Special Olympics, an abrupt reversal from his own budget proposal that eliminated federal money for the charity and sparked bipartisan condemnation.
His statement on the South Lawn of the White House came after his education secretary, Betsy DeVos, spent three days defending the proposal, most recently at a contentious Senate hearing Thursday morning.
“The Special Olympics will be funded, I just told my people,” Trump told reporters.
The funding was never in any real jeopardy, with key Republicans vowing to maintain the allocation. But the matter was quickly becoming a political problem for the president.
Special Olympics, which gives people with intellectual disabilities the chance to compete in athletics on a world stage, has long enjoyed robust and bipartisan support.
For the third year, the Trump budget had proposed to end federal support for the organization. The issue received scant attention in years past, as lawmakers ignored the Trump proposal and instead increased the charity’s funding, which stands at $17.6 million this year.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) grilled DeVos about her plan to eliminate federal funding for Special Olympics. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)But after DeVos was questioned about her budget plan at a congressional hearing Tuesday, word spread quickly. She drew widespread and withering attacks that extended beyond the partisan back-and-forth in Washington.
“Look, I’m not perfect but at least my obituary won’t say, ‘and in 2019, he defunded the Special Olympics,’ ” comedian Conan O’Brien wrote on Twitter.
Supporters of the Special Olympics posted photos of family members’ medals earned at the Games. Others contrasted the money spent on the program to Trump’s request for a border wall and to the price of DeVos’s family yacht.
The debate was poised to extend into the presidential campaign, serving as a proxy fight over the role of government and American values. Democrats contrasted this proposed cut against tax breaks benefiting the wealthiest Americans.
Republicans led by DeVos make the case that Special Olympics is a well-funded charity that can fend for itself.
On Thursday morning, DeVos told a Senate panel that Democratic attacks on the proposal were “disgusting” and “shameful.” Matt Wolking, deputy communications director for the Trump campaign, went further, suggesting Democrats who support abortion rights are hypocrites for supporting Special Olympics, whose competitors include people with Down syndrome.
“I’m sure Democrats who see abortion as the cure for Down syndrome and other disabilities are sincerely concerned about kids having the chance to be in the Special Olympics,” Wolking wrote on Twitter.
At a Senate appropriations hearing Thursday, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who chairs the education subcommittee, predicted Congress would again ignore most of the Education Department cuts proposed by the White House.
“There are programs here that are unlikely to be eliminated in any final budget,” Blunt said. A day earlier, he voiced support for funding Special Olympics in particular.
Wolking and DeVos noted that Special Olympics is not a government program and that it benefits from private support. The Education Department contribution represents about 10 percent of the group’s annual budget.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) asked DeVos whether she had personally approved the proposal. She said she had not but defended the decision as the result of necessary “tough choices.”
She added that she loves the organization and has donated a portion of her salary to support its work.
“I hope all of this debate encourages lots of private contributions to Special Olympics,” she said. Then addressing Democratic critics of the decision, she said: “So let’s not use disabled children in a twisted way for your political narrative. That is just disgusting, and it’s shameful.”
“Madam Secretary, let me tell you what,” Durbin shot back. “Eliminating $18 million out of a $70 or $80 billion budget I think is shameful, too. I’m not twisting it.”
For three years, President Trump has proposed steep cuts to the Education Department. The final budget plan sent to Congress would cut about $8.5 billion in spending from the agency, a 12 percent reduction.
There was no indication whether anyone inside the administration fought to keep the Special Olympics funding. Eliminating the funding has been part of all three Trump budgets.
On Thursday, DeVos said she was speaking for the administration, not herself, in defending the plan.
“As you know, [the] budget process within the administration is a collaborative one, and it’s been my responsibility to present the budget here on behalf of the administration, the president’s budget,” she told Durbin. “We had to make tough choices and decisions around the budget priorities.”
She said the administration emphasized maintaining funding for higher-priority programs, such as major initiatives that support schools with low-income children and special-education services in schools.
Pressed on whether she approved the cut to Special Olympics, DeVos said, “No, I didn’t personally get involved.”
Durbin replied by shifting the blame to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.
“Whoever came up with that at OMB gets a Special Olympics gold medal for insensitivity,” he said. “To think that we can’t spend $18 million to support this dramatically successful venture.”
Others were frustrated by the attention to Special Olympics when Education Department programs that serve far more people were also cut or capped. Sasha Pudelski of AASA, the School Superintendents Association, noted that the Trump budget proposed flat funding for programs supporting low-income children and children with disabilities.
“Can we pls stop talking about the never-gonna-happen cuts to the Special Olympics and start talking about real impact of budget caps to programs like IDEA and Title 1?” she wrote on Twitter. “Lets discuss the real funding issues for K-12 Ed advocates.”
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Interesting that it was run by everybodys hero, Bobby Mueller.
Also it continued through Clinton, Bush, and into the 2nd Obama term until Edward Snowden dropped knowledge. One mans "traitor" is another mans Daniel Ellsberg
See, i read articles lol
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SOCIALISM!!!!
And where there is SOCIALISM there are..
SOCIALISTS!!!
There will be NO SOCIALISTS in 'murica DAMMIT
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Here’s another one that lays it all out...
https://m.theepochtimes.com/spygate-the-inside-story-behind-the-alleged-plot-to-take-down-trump_2833074.html
No chance you read it though. You want to keep doubling down on your beloved dossier. The one that even Isikoff is dismissing now.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1110555817240080384?s=21
At this point you might be the only man in America left who believes in it.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
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Remember Nunes he once held this post no ? Talk about integrity glad Schiff is in control ..
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