President Donald Trump said he would meet Thursday with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought—one of the authors of the conservative “Project 2025” plan to radically reshape the government—to decide where to make cuts as he seeks to take advantage of the federal government shutdown.
Trump, posting to Truth Social, said the Vought meeting will “determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent.”
But pointing that out is a waste of time so long as congress is too fucking cowardly to do anything about it.
Adventurous-Goal478 on
He does know that government agencies work for everyone, right? Does he genuinely think only Democrats use social safety net programs?
21-characters on
I am so sick of him thinking he can tell Democrats what they need to do in order to satisfy the orange buffoon king.
PeopleB4Profit on
“To destroy every democratic organization, every democracy and all democracy supporting people in the world”!
Mundane-Club-107 on
Kinda wild that no one in the US is doing anything while they slowly slip into complete fascism.
Orwells_Roses on
“I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote…”
Republicans refused to negotiate, demanded Democrats meekly go along with their proposals, and when that didn’t work, they let the deadline expire without funding the government. Nothing about that was giving Trump opportunities, it was about standing up for what’s right, and refusing to bend the knee.
Now they just need to hold fast. Republicans caused the shutdown by refusing to negotiate, and now they’re going to use it as an excuse to gut programs that are very popular, even among the Republican base, and their fingerprints are all over it.
*edit* typos
TintedApostle on
This is what happens when you can’t sell your ideology. You have to forcibly impose it. The ideology of MAGA is crap. It can’t sell in the market place of ideas. This is proven by how they complain about universities and institutions.
They are in an extinction burst, but really think they can alter the path of 300 million people in teh US and the 8 billion in the world.
The boulder is moving without them.
pinballwiz on
Democrats need to go all “Sure Jan” and keep ignoring him. Whether we were in a shutdown or not, he was going to do the same anyway. Trump thrives on attention, so if we ignore him and focus on the actual competent people in Congress, we can get this resolved without him. Plus, the less attention that he gets, the more he ups the ante on his unhinged rants.
mattdionis on
This is a Christian Nationalist coup and anyone who says otherwise is either blind or complicit.
Thin-Competition3018 on
We were warned.
PurplRzr on
Correction ☝🏼: Donald Trump meeting Mein Kampf 2025 Edition author to cut “Democrat Agencies”
Beardown1584 on
I cannot wait for the day when we never have to see his face again
BlueJay_525 on
Of course, he’s not actually allowed to do this legally – but they will push anything as an angle/excuse for more illegal actions. We are fully in a dictatorship, he’s just trying to find reasons for people to ‘buy’ his consolation of power to sell it to the masses.
datingoverthirty on
Dude, Trump has always spewed nonsense, but he’s completely lost it these past few months
Outside Newsom and Pritzker, no one is *vocally* sounding the alarm
We need a full-court press — he’s *literally* saying what he’s *literally* going to do!
This man will purge people of their positions, just like he did with US AID, ED, and other departments
Fantastic-Ad-2856 on
I suspect the only answer to this is for it to get truly awful very very quickly for everyone so that people awaken.
Tiny goosesteps of “just a little bit worse than before” is going to see you guys invade Greenland/Canada in a few years and its “how did we get here?!?”
absolutelynotagoblin on
The president is trying to inflict the maximum amount of pain on the people that he governs. The majority don’t want this. He is a traitor. He deserves the punishment of a traitor. and his underlings won’t escape justice. And neither will certain members of the Supreme Court.
He is a civil servant who took an oath to uphold the constitution. He has trashed it.
His job is to govern, oversee and lead to see that THE PEOPLE’S will is executed. He has done no such thing.
The fact that our lawmakers on the left fail to scream this at the top of their lungs in town squares, rallies, on podcasts and on TV is an embarrassment. They aren’t saying enough. They aren’t using the *words.*
Donald Trump is fomenting a war. Against the American people. He is a traitor.
EDIT: This post is strongly-worded. It is not intended to be a call to action, but to engage in discussion. I can’t even believe I feel I need a disclaimer for this post, but there it is.
Subject_DA on
I literally cannot buy guns fast enough, I encourage every American against this to use your second amendment, buy guns, ammo, armor, drones, everything you can. Get to the range, go somewhere and use your equipment, train, and always be ready.
Hyhyy on
Americans are cooked. lol
b_tight on
Burn it fucking down. Thats the only thing that will wake people up. Suffering needs to happen
karween on
he’s looking to fix a problem that doesnt exist. he imagines some shadow force impeding his progress when it’s actually just that people haven’t bought what he’s selling to the degree that would satisfy him
he’s a squirrel protecting his few walnuts from other squirrels when the danger is the snowstorm building that’ll make it difficult to find anything else to eat after it passes.
Peachy33 on
If we still have a public education system in 50 years students will be Venn Diagramming the events of the Holocaust and the events occurring today.
Ncav2 on
Yes let’s stop pretending that they care about governing. Unfortunately America has to hit rock bottom before people realize the threat of this administration.
PresentCheck9309 on
Honestly Republicans are on public programs in a big way, so have at it.
He is shooting his people right in the face.
indiscernable1 on
There are no such thing as Democrat Agencies. This is utter insanity.
LeMasterofSwords on
Release the files
4moves on
Oh how i wish this country would through this traitor out of office. along with all his enablers. and lock them up under a rico and conspiracy to destroy the united states
StreetRude7351 on
Wait a minute I thought the Democrats were stupid evil vicious people now they’re smart? Old diaper Don is losing it.
ae_94 on
*sigh* another thing MAGA will likely absorb
Syphillisdiller1 on
Boy, it sure is a good thing people couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary or Kamala, because clearly they would have been equally bad.
(Fuck those people)
TheCapnRedbeard on
SERIOUSLY someone fucking sic semper this “man”
**For legal reasons this is a joke
Unless 😏
JK!
😏
Dramatic_Original_55 on
But, he said he never heard of Project 2025. You don’t think he was lying, do you?
absurdisthewurd on
“Negotiating” just like a fucking mob boss
mrroofuis on
Does that mean social security will be cut? Medicare ? VA benefits ? School lunches?
Basically anything to help out the populace
thekinginyello on
Anything he doesn’t like or sees as a threat will be a “democratic agency”.
BlueyedIrush on
The only good fascist is a deceased fascist
numberjhonny5ive on
Wow! Now that’s what I call diversion! Where are the Epstein files? Also, fuck apathy.
kcramthun on
Runaway rising costs and expenses, cutting services and closing rural hospitals, while fudging jobs numbers and tanking the economy. More people are going to struggle and it’s going to fucking suck. “Don’t worry, TrumpRx™️ is here to save you!”
We were warned. People stayed home when they needed to vote. Our hand is being held to the stove while they tell us everything is fine, this is all according to plan. Let’s see how people really feel after another year of this.
darkjlarue on
Maybe he can accidentally remove himself from power.
Sunday_Schoolz on
Russell Voight is an enemy of the people, and should be labeled as *hostes humani generis*
Abject_Director7626 on
But, but, Tiffany Trump made a post and everything saying her dad had nothing to do with project 25… are you saying Tiffany lied?!
dolemiteo24 on
The Democratic response should be that everything that he cuts just gets added to the list of demands.
xXBassHero99Xx on
The dumbest part about this is, The blatant partisanship of Trump’s post-shutdown funding cut spree is just evidence that he doesn’t respect any budget Congress passes. A main reason Dems can’t vote to approve the continuing resolution to fund the government is that Trump has been and continues to ignore Congress’s funding appropriations and just yank funds from whatever includes a bad word he doesn’t like like “equity,” or more recently just “is about a big city where Democrats live”.
He’s literally punishing America for any land that voted against him. He’s doing the work of our foreign enemies while they crack open a beer and laugh and dance.
TheHotTakeHarry on
Why does Trump need a Government shutdown to do this? The article doesn’t explain that at all.
Photog1981 on
When Project 2025 was published, so many people bought the “well, Trump isn’t involved, he doesn’t know what’s in there” crap.
Specific-Frosting730 on
Congress should be replaced with people who care about this country instead of making themselves part of the 1%.
They’ve abdicated their power to King Trump the Turd completely.
What exactly are they doing for the American people?
Mikewold58 on
Openly admitting to lying about Project 2025 lmao…Anyone who said he wasnt working with them is officially confirmed to be a moron.
Alert-Nebula6215 on
“You made me do it”
fantasyfootball1234 on
This was the plan all along.
1) Manufacture a government shutdown
2) use illegal methods to fire every government employee who isn’t MAGA
3) Consolidate all government agencies into the fascist cult
It’ll be so much easier to act like a tyrant once all those pesky checks and balances are gone
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By Billal Rahman and Shane Croucher |
President Donald Trump said he would meet Thursday with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought—one of the authors of the conservative “Project 2025” plan to radically reshape the government—to decide where to make cuts as he seeks to take advantage of the federal government shutdown.
Trump, posting to Truth Social, said the Vought meeting will “determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent.”
Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-project-2025-government-shutdown-omb-vought-10817360?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-project-2025-government-shutdown-omb-vought-10817360?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main)
“Democrat agencies” aren’t a fucking thing.
But pointing that out is a waste of time so long as congress is too fucking cowardly to do anything about it.
He does know that government agencies work for everyone, right? Does he genuinely think only Democrats use social safety net programs?
I am so sick of him thinking he can tell Democrats what they need to do in order to satisfy the orange buffoon king.
“To destroy every democratic organization, every democracy and all democracy supporting people in the world”!
Kinda wild that no one in the US is doing anything while they slowly slip into complete fascism.
“I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote…”
Republicans refused to negotiate, demanded Democrats meekly go along with their proposals, and when that didn’t work, they let the deadline expire without funding the government. Nothing about that was giving Trump opportunities, it was about standing up for what’s right, and refusing to bend the knee.
Now they just need to hold fast. Republicans caused the shutdown by refusing to negotiate, and now they’re going to use it as an excuse to gut programs that are very popular, even among the Republican base, and their fingerprints are all over it.
*edit* typos
This is what happens when you can’t sell your ideology. You have to forcibly impose it. The ideology of MAGA is crap. It can’t sell in the market place of ideas. This is proven by how they complain about universities and institutions.
They are in an extinction burst, but really think they can alter the path of 300 million people in teh US and the 8 billion in the world.
The boulder is moving without them.
Democrats need to go all “Sure Jan” and keep ignoring him. Whether we were in a shutdown or not, he was going to do the same anyway. Trump thrives on attention, so if we ignore him and focus on the actual competent people in Congress, we can get this resolved without him. Plus, the less attention that he gets, the more he ups the ante on his unhinged rants.
This is a Christian Nationalist coup and anyone who says otherwise is either blind or complicit.
We were warned.
Correction ☝🏼: Donald Trump meeting Mein Kampf 2025 Edition author to cut “Democrat Agencies”
I cannot wait for the day when we never have to see his face again
Of course, he’s not actually allowed to do this legally – but they will push anything as an angle/excuse for more illegal actions. We are fully in a dictatorship, he’s just trying to find reasons for people to ‘buy’ his consolation of power to sell it to the masses.
Dude, Trump has always spewed nonsense, but he’s completely lost it these past few months
Outside Newsom and Pritzker, no one is *vocally* sounding the alarm
We need a full-court press — he’s *literally* saying what he’s *literally* going to do!
This man will purge people of their positions, just like he did with US AID, ED, and other departments
I suspect the only answer to this is for it to get truly awful very very quickly for everyone so that people awaken.
Tiny goosesteps of “just a little bit worse than before” is going to see you guys invade Greenland/Canada in a few years and its “how did we get here?!?”
The president is trying to inflict the maximum amount of pain on the people that he governs. The majority don’t want this. He is a traitor. He deserves the punishment of a traitor. and his underlings won’t escape justice. And neither will certain members of the Supreme Court.
He is a civil servant who took an oath to uphold the constitution. He has trashed it.
His job is to govern, oversee and lead to see that THE PEOPLE’S will is executed. He has done no such thing.
The fact that our lawmakers on the left fail to scream this at the top of their lungs in town squares, rallies, on podcasts and on TV is an embarrassment. They aren’t saying enough. They aren’t using the *words.*
Donald Trump is fomenting a war. Against the American people. He is a traitor.
EDIT: This post is strongly-worded. It is not intended to be a call to action, but to engage in discussion. I can’t even believe I feel I need a disclaimer for this post, but there it is.
I literally cannot buy guns fast enough, I encourage every American against this to use your second amendment, buy guns, ammo, armor, drones, everything you can. Get to the range, go somewhere and use your equipment, train, and always be ready.
Americans are cooked. lol
Burn it fucking down. Thats the only thing that will wake people up. Suffering needs to happen
he’s looking to fix a problem that doesnt exist. he imagines some shadow force impeding his progress when it’s actually just that people haven’t bought what he’s selling to the degree that would satisfy him
he’s a squirrel protecting his few walnuts from other squirrels when the danger is the snowstorm building that’ll make it difficult to find anything else to eat after it passes.
If we still have a public education system in 50 years students will be Venn Diagramming the events of the Holocaust and the events occurring today.
Yes let’s stop pretending that they care about governing. Unfortunately America has to hit rock bottom before people realize the threat of this administration.
Honestly Republicans are on public programs in a big way, so have at it.
He is shooting his people right in the face.
There are no such thing as Democrat Agencies. This is utter insanity.
Release the files
Oh how i wish this country would through this traitor out of office. along with all his enablers. and lock them up under a rico and conspiracy to destroy the united states
Wait a minute I thought the Democrats were stupid evil vicious people now they’re smart? Old diaper Don is losing it.
*sigh* another thing MAGA will likely absorb
Boy, it sure is a good thing people couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary or Kamala, because clearly they would have been equally bad.
(Fuck those people)
SERIOUSLY someone fucking sic semper this “man”
**For legal reasons this is a joke
Unless 😏
JK!
😏
But, he said he never heard of Project 2025. You don’t think he was lying, do you?
“Negotiating” just like a fucking mob boss
Does that mean social security will be cut? Medicare ? VA benefits ? School lunches?
Basically anything to help out the populace
Anything he doesn’t like or sees as a threat will be a “democratic agency”.
The only good fascist is a deceased fascist
Wow! Now that’s what I call diversion! Where are the Epstein files? Also, fuck apathy.
Runaway rising costs and expenses, cutting services and closing rural hospitals, while fudging jobs numbers and tanking the economy. More people are going to struggle and it’s going to fucking suck. “Don’t worry, TrumpRx™️ is here to save you!”
We were warned. People stayed home when they needed to vote. Our hand is being held to the stove while they tell us everything is fine, this is all according to plan. Let’s see how people really feel after another year of this.
Maybe he can accidentally remove himself from power.
Russell Voight is an enemy of the people, and should be labeled as *hostes humani generis*
But, but, Tiffany Trump made a post and everything saying her dad had nothing to do with project 25… are you saying Tiffany lied?!
The Democratic response should be that everything that he cuts just gets added to the list of demands.
The dumbest part about this is, The blatant partisanship of Trump’s post-shutdown funding cut spree is just evidence that he doesn’t respect any budget Congress passes. A main reason Dems can’t vote to approve the continuing resolution to fund the government is that Trump has been and continues to ignore Congress’s funding appropriations and just yank funds from whatever includes a bad word he doesn’t like like “equity,” or more recently just “is about a big city where Democrats live”.
He’s literally punishing America for any land that voted against him. He’s doing the work of our foreign enemies while they crack open a beer and laugh and dance.
Why does Trump need a Government shutdown to do this? The article doesn’t explain that at all.
When Project 2025 was published, so many people bought the “well, Trump isn’t involved, he doesn’t know what’s in there” crap.
Congress should be replaced with people who care about this country instead of making themselves part of the 1%.
They’ve abdicated their power to King Trump the Turd completely.
What exactly are they doing for the American people?
Openly admitting to lying about Project 2025 lmao…Anyone who said he wasnt working with them is officially confirmed to be a moron.
“You made me do it”
This was the plan all along.
1) Manufacture a government shutdown
2) use illegal methods to fire every government employee who isn’t MAGA
3) Consolidate all government agencies into the fascist cult
It’ll be so much easier to act like a tyrant once all those pesky checks and balances are gone