There are a few sons of reprisals Trump II converging today in the hours which followed the government’s closure after the end of the exercise at midnight on Wednesday.
Since last week, the Director of Budget and Management of the White House, Russ Vought, suggested that if the Democrats have held the line and have really experienced the restraint of their votes to keep the government open, there would be a kind of hell to pay. More specifically, he ordered the federal agencies last week to start setting up plans in place of reduction in place, in particular permanent layoffs and mass dismissals within the federal government.
It was these exact types of concerns in March that influenced certain Democrats to help the Republicans adopt a short -term spending bill to finance the government until the end of the fiscal year. At the time, the Government Ministry of Effectiveness had just started its outburst with the federal government and the Democrats feared that President Trump could use an excuse as an excuse to adopt a series of politically motivated and random fire.
Trump and his friends in the White House demonstrated in the months that do not need the excuse of an closure to engage in such activities. Democrats have chosen to ignore Vought’s threats last week and still do not tend to give the Republicans votes to reopen the government unless they can conclude a kind of agreement to extend subsidies to the Act respecting affordable care and restore coverage of Medicaid.
Vought doubles today with other threats that Trump had pointed out: draw federal funding from blue cities and states. When Trump launched the idea of retaining New York federal funds on Monday (this was an article on his remuneration program for some time), he announced it on Truth Social as part of an article of electoral interference on the next election of the mayor of New York.
Even if he threatened to do so to all blue cities (under the cover of punishing places with sanctuary protections for undocumented immigrants) for a certain time, this post of truth said that he would refuse the federal funds if the popular progressive candidate and the Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani won the election in November.
“What is the point of voting for him?” Trump has thought about social truth.
As we discussed in the place where things are on Monday, none of this concerns Mamdani. Vought explained this explicit point on Wednesday morning when he announced that the Trump administration would freeze $ 18 billion in funding for infrastructure projects in New York to “ensure that funding does not circulate according to the unconstitutional Dei principles”. The concerns about “Dei” are the coverage that the Trump administration uses to unilaterally punish any aspect of American life and culture that Maga does not like. In this case, Vought clearly tries to strike elected democrats where it hurts to block the CR: the two high -level members of Democratic leadership in Congress are from New York. Wednesday afternoon, Vought expanded his crusade to compensate for a stop to also include a bunch of blue states.
It will probably continue until Trump gets what he wants.
Speaking of these mass shots
Don’t worry, Vought always intends to do these threats well. He only reports him for a few days. Vought told the House Republicans during a private call on Wednesday that mass layoffs of federal workers, which he threatened to make permanent, will begin “in a day or two,” reported Politico. He also gave the Republicans an overview of the moment when the cuts to certain programs and military salary, which they can use to attack DEMS, begin. By politico:
Vought has warned that money is about to run for both the nutrition program for mothers and low -income babies known as WIC, and for the wages for active members of the army.
Troops should miss payroll checks from October 15 if the government remains closed. The legislators of the two chambers are preparing legislation to pay the troops in the middle of the closure, but the GOP leaders will wait before making an appeal to put such a bill, since it reduced their leverage effect on the Democrats, according to three other people with direct anonymity. The leaders have so far stick to the argument that Democrats must approve the proper stops and seven weeks if they want to pay troops.
Johnson loves Trump’s war against blue cities
The president of the Chamber, Mike Johnson (R-La), is enthusiastic about the dystopian plans which are just canceled by Trump to force the military to provide “training” in the cities led by democratic politicians, within the framework of his in progress war against blue cities and the interest in deploying the national army against civilians. By the hill:
“It is a win-win scenario because the national guards are proud of this duty they have played, and they have radically reduced crime to DC and we are all safe. Our employees are safe. They are not working in fear at the moment. I think we should do it in each big city led by Democrats who are not serious,” said Johnson.
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