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Time for It to Die: The Chaotic Killing Off of the Govt
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In plain English, Donald Trump's "vision" is to kill the department, which Congress created in 1979 to administer federal education programs. An executive order has reportedly been in the works for a month, and legal or not, the department could be gone before you know it. In fact, half the government could be gone, and the half that's left could be unrecognizable, before most people know it and anyone can do anything about it. It's all happening at whiplash speed, with little to no transparency. Even court challenges are no match for Trump's ideological army and Elon Musk's digital SWAT team. Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson summed up the threat this week at a hearing on the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an independent agency created by Congress after the 2008 economic collapse to stop banks and other financial firms from scamming and cheating people, and hold them accountable if they do. She said she feared it would be "choked out of its very existence before I get to rule on the merits." In other words, Trump and Musk could outrun the rule of law, rendering it irrelevant.
In fact, half the government could be gone, and the half that's left could be unrecognizable, before most people know it and anyone can do anything about it. It's all happening at whiplash speed, with little to no transparency. Even court challenges are no match for Trump's ideological army and Elon Musk's digital SWAT team.
Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson summed up the threat this week at a hearing on the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an independent agency created by Congress after the 2008 economic collapse to stop banks and other financial firms from scamming and cheating people, and hold them accountable if they do. She said she feared it would be "choked out of its very existence before I get to rule on the merits." In other words, Trump and Musk could outrun the rule of law, rendering it irrelevant.
#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-05 10:44 AM | Reply
This is the Privatization and Corporatization of all things that are actually better and cheaper if the People administer it for ourselves.
Since Republicans made Corporate Personhood legal, money is speech, so money is the bottom line not only in business, but in your very life.
If something can't make a profit, it shouldn't exist according to Republicans.
Which as about as far from benefitting We the People as one can get; the idea being to, 'form a more perfect Union'... not to line the pockets of the already wealthy.
#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-05 10:58 AM | Reply
America will be weakened and then our enemies will attack.
Not rocket science, kids. More like the most basic of history lessons.
#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-05 11:21 AM | Reply
Or enemies will attack and Trump/MAGA will be big mad.
Why do I have this feeling that their response will be chaotic and ineffectual?
#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-05 11:25 AM | Reply
#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-05 11:21 AM | Reply | Flag: (Choose)
Because we send the education money directly to the states instead of through some bloated Federal bureaucracy? So the teacher's union will attack the country?
#5 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-06 12:26 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Because we send the education money directly to fifty bloated state bureaucracies, instead of one bloated Federal bureaucracy.
Now that's efficiency, having fifty-one bureaucracies, instead of one just bureaucracy!
#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-06 12:29 PM | Reply
So the teacher's union will attack the country?
#5 | POSTED BY FISHPAW
We told you NOT to give them GUNS!
But you maga maroons never listen.
#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-06 12:35 PM | Reply
#6 | Posted by snoofy
Precisely. Where was "running government like a business" when interest rates were 1 to 2 percent and the US infrastructure was crumbling?
#8 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-06 05:28 PM | Reply
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