"Despite the administration's claims, not a single one of those 1.4 billion dollars will lower the federal deficit unless Congress steps in. Instead, the money has been returned to agencies mandated by law to spend it."

Absolutely PERFECT evidence that liberals need to see. What this is complaining about is that a government agency didn't do enough because they have to depend on other government agencies. THIS is the government bloat so many talk about but so many liberals want more of. Maybe DOGE could have done more had there not been a million checks and balances blocking them. In fact, maybe more of our government agencies could be more efficient without DOGE if it wasn't for regulations and roadblocks at every turn. This article makes me believe there is hope for liberals regarding this topic. You may disagree with everything DOGE has done but now I'm seeing the unintended positive side effect where liberals are forced to actually see how their want for government bloat only makes things worse.

But also, not one person will ever convince me that saving money is a bad thing like liberals have been trying to get Americans to except since DOGE. However, the main reason I want DOGE to be successful is so that when liberals have power again, they will try to one-up Reps. And this is an instance in which one-uping is a fantastic thing instead of just a stupid partisan pendulum that only moves us backwards.

All while Dems are busy trying to ensure criminals have no jail time or any repercussions at all for rape, murder, etc. You know who else showed no remorse? They guy who killed the UHC executive. The illegal immigrant who raped and killed those girls under that bridge (can't remember the names and don't feel like looking up). I know 100% that they showed no remorse. But, let's ignore those people because it doesn't hurt the liberal narrative, amirite?

I guess it's absolutely proof-positive now that liberals do want to indict people but only as long as they are on the other side of the aisle. But anyone on their side is free to do whatever they want, even rape women. Sad times.

I don't really think they have a problem. It's very apparent that America is half-filled with people who are more than happy to live under communism and socialism that Russia and the US just will make a deal that Russia pays America for people to migrate. It sounds outlandish but based on the ridiculously stupid deals Trump just made with NVDA, AMD, etc. it's so much more probable now. Trump will sell out anyone to ensure the Feds get theirs. Which, and I know DR lib kids are going to hate this next statement, is a primary duty of the POTUS.

My life has gotten better under Trump. My life did get better under Biden. In fact, Obama is the only POTUS who had a term in which my life didn't improve. Even during W I got laid off because of the recession but quickly got a much more lucrative position elsewhere in an industry that doesn't get hit by recessions very often. But, I could easily say that under Biden I did end up having to pay a lot more for groceries than I did before Biden but I just consider little bouts of increased inflation just part of living in this country (and most other developed nations).

Just because you don't like someone doesn't mean you have to lie. Unfortunately, that's all the majority of Americans want to do these days, lie and exaggerate because the way they think things should be done isn't the way they are getting done. And the fact so many of you can sleep at night knowing this really does say a lot.

I'll leave this liberal article here.

Yet, there are just as sound metrics coming from the other side that things are looking great.

The problem is, liberals don't want to admit that if the goal is to invest in America and turn us into a self-sufficient nation again...what Trump is doing is exactly how you go about it. I'm not saying it's the direction we should go. I'm not saying it's the only right way. I'm just saying that just because liberals don't agree with his direction then all of a sudden they feel the need to spread as much hate and divisiveness as possible (and Reps also when a Dem is POTUS).

Yet here all of you DR kids are, eating all this up from your masters as if it's candy. Trump wants America to invest in itself. Dems want America to be in debt to the world. Both strategies are sound and can work very well if done correctly. Spreading hate because it's not being done your way is stupid.

This is what concerns liberals. Let's not care about the hostages dying. Instead, let's be hypocrites and try to get rid of any kind of prosecution for criminals in America but then act like soft-on-crime in other countries is a national problem.

How do so many liberals function when their minds are constantly flip-flopping based on ad-hoc perceptions and not on logic?

Rofl, the entire article goes over both sides and concludes nothing, yet a quote by an anonymous source over something that can't be proven was said is highlighted in a liberal outlet. How shocking. Never seen that before except every day.

The hint of any kind of logical conclusion to be made here is that a) staffing may be a problem LIKE ALMOST EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY IN AMERICA and b) Western liberal states are now having to prove they aren't capable of meeting their own needs and must suck at the teat of the Feds in order to survive.

The Rep POTUS made an executive order. Dems don't want to follow it.

The Dem POTUS made an executive order. Reps don't want to follow it.

Now, take both of those scenarios and research the outcome of each. You will find that one of the parties, while complaining a lot and showing how stupid they really are, ultimately does what the EO was made to do. And you will find the other party not only puts out rhetoric of refusal to comply with Federal orders but also encourage and suppor riots, looting, etc. because of it.

Dems have a moral high ground in their principles but have, beyond any argument because the proof is all out there, the lowest of morality when it comes to compromise and/or accepting that not everything is going to go their way. The only party that is truly causing America to devolve in terms of inclusivity and acceptance are Democrats. And that's proven every single day regardless if you don't like the truth. And that's not saying they are worse than Reps, that's just highlighting reality and Dem's own actions. When Dems make decisions Reps don't like, they whine and cry and then try to fight fire with fire. When Reps make decisions Dems don't like, Dems want to burn the country down. Neither way is better or worse but it's something you HAVE to accept as a party before things can get any better.

This gerrymandering is another perfect example and one I've talked about for years on DR. Dems gerrymander like crazy AND they have broken/bent gerrymandering rules...and this new abuse by Reps has proven it this week where all of the examples of Dem gerrymandering are coming to the surface and can't be denied by anyone. Reps do the same and Dems run away from their duties? Give me a freaking break. You lose all moral high ground you have in your principles when your actions are counter to your principles.

First, what are liberals going to do about it? This is a problem that was created by the rich, both Dems and Reps alike, over many years. If it's so bad, what's your plan?

Second, Dems already showed their plan, or lack thereof, back in W's term. I hope your party has more to offer. When W tried to privatize it so I can invest my money WAAAAAAAAY better than the government and get more back when I retire, Dems whined and cried like babies because personal responsibility goes against their party's ideology. I'm not bashing that, it's just opinion...Dems feel they need their entire lives controlled by the government and Reps don't. No reason to hate anyone. But, since all we have on here are DR lib kids who were not alive or just born when W was in office, let me tell you what happened. When W proposed it, he did it under the measure that SS was going to be insolvent by a certain year...I think it was 2035 or something like that. Now, one would think Dems would come back with an actual intelligent response and alternate plan. One would think they would accept the problem and try to find ways to fix it. But, alas, they didn't. What was their response? Their response consisted solely of one statement, "Nuh uh, it won't go insolvent until 2040"...again, I don't remember the actual years used but that is almost verbatim what a prominent Dem said.

If you can't connect the dots since liberals using logic doesn't ever happen, when Dems were informed of the research that said SS would be insolvent by 2035, their response wasn't to fix it but to just say that number is wrong...essentially agreeing that it will be insolvent but not the exact year the research said. They did not offer an alternate fix. They did not accept it as a problem that will plague Americans in the future. Their entire rebuttal consisted of just saying nuh uh.

It was a very sad day to watch in politics. But we do need change. We need drastic change in SS. If liberals can come up with a way to fix it without just ignoring it and kicking the can down the road like they did in early 2000s, I'm all ears.

Until then, their response back then is still one of the biggest stains on the Dem party to this day.

"I seem to recall housecats kill that many if not more?"

Ok, so the liberal measure is now "how much wildlife dies by non-humans" as their measure on whether something is a danger to nature. Guess what, a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE amount of wildlife dies in rainforests, WAAAAAAY more than humans kill...yet that doesn't stop liberals from whining about the lumber industry.

Once again, hypocrisy is the only platform liberals have.

"And the same is true for wage discrimination. Crap like this is why unions are so important. A union contract stops this nonsense - but it only works when enough people are represented by unions. And union membership is still FAR too low in the US."

Unfortunately for your side who wants unions, you do NOTHING to counter the negatives of unions. So, it's not a real solution any more than non-union ideologies. Both refuse to accept the negatives and find ways to make them less impactful or less negative. Instead, people spout how their ideology is the best thing ever since pockets and then get surprised when things don't really change even if you get what you want.

"I know little about this guy other than he brings the perspective of a new generation, and that's good..."

Nazis were a new generation at one time. Glad you give evidence that liberals blindly follow along with anything just because it's new and shiny.

Man, it feels great to channel my inner liberal and use Godwin's Law. It's been so long and it feels so refreshing.

Got it, so the reward for killing 1200 civilians and keeping many hostages, many of which who died under their watch, is to give them what they want. I mean, I completely understand France doing it since it tracks in their history to just give up but not most other countries.

The liberal mentality of giving up just doesn't sit right with me, especially when it concerns bullies regardless of their size or capabilities.

Yes, we already know, everything associated with Epstein and anybody who isn't a liberal is an immediate national emergency and the worst thing ever since the crucifixion, but anything having to do with Epstein and anyone leaning left is worth of covering up, ignoring, not saying a word, etc.

We get it already. Find a new show.

If any of you have problems with affording meat, join your local Meals on Wheels. Not sure how true it is everywhere but I haven't paid for meat in over a year. In fact, after Hurricane Milton and losing power, we lost a freezer full of meat and estimated it at around $1.1k loss which we recovered for free over the next month. All of it was free for MOW drivers since they give up any meat they can't use opposed to throwing it away. Sure, it's always either close to the expiration or already expired but put that in the freezer and it will last months.

As I've posted on here before, there is money out there for everyone, you just have to work for it. You have to make effort. Not buying meat helps us a bit but doesn't make us rich...but compounding that on top of other little hacks you can do makes a significant difference.

"Anyone that thought a billionaire was going to lower prices is a special kind of stupid."

Anyone who associates this with a billionaire and not a VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERY long trend of ALL politicians not lowering prices is a special kind of stupid. Just wait 30 years or so when you are 40 and actually have the right perspective. Recency bias kills politics when kids think they know how things work.

"Has climate change changed the appeal of coastal Florida?"

No, because the actual impact of climate change isn't rising sea levels regardless what the liberal media tries to tell you. The sea levels aren't rising at any measurable significance if you read unbiased news and not doomsday liberals with an agenda or idiot cons who don't believe anything ever changes and if it does then it's bad. What IS causing problems are rising water tables due to erosion and other factors (e.g., infrastructure expansion to meet expanding population, etc.) Miami is going to be at the tipping point in the next 5-10 years most likely, if not sooner. And having 2 more hurricanes a year (Atlantic) since 1920 with average wind speeds just a tick higher due to climate change isn't even close to the top of the reasons why this is happening.

Reading and researching is a very good skill to have.

Yet, all of the people from communist/dictator countries who were able to make their way to the US, who get articles published in our media talking about how bad socialism and liberalism were to their country and freedoms, are completely ignore by lib kids. But one article comes with someone hating on the other side and you lib kids cling to it like hypocrisy is going out of style.

When Dems gerrymander, it's all good. When Reps do it, all of a sudden it's a terrible thing and the world is ending. Same thing with filibustering. Dems whine like babies every time Reps do it but then turn around and do it all the time.

With the incredibly apparent and undeniable hypocrisy on this site every day, I know I'm right that DR is filled with either just a bunch of kids or is just a bunch of bots like Reddit.

That's nothing. A self-described jihadist won the primary in New York. It's happening all over the place across both parties.

The reason why insurance has gotten stupid here is because of socialist mentalities. So many of you don't even understand and refuse to learn about it because you can't accept that maybe there are some negatives to socialism (there are positives too, of course).

Companies do charge higher rates by locality; however, not NEARLY enough to make up the difference. For example, a millionaire with a home on the beach may pay double in insurance but that house may be 5 times more likely to be destroyed in a hurricane. Add to that the fact that if you live 30 or more miles inland from the beach, the chances of damage requiring full house replacement go down draaaastically. Yet, people inland are forced to pay a much higher share than the risk they incur because the rich Dems and Reps have socialized the cost of insurance.

If the huge houses on the beaches of Florida actually paid even close to their risk level proportion of total damage, Florida home insurance would be much lower for everyone else.

I live 50ish miles inland from the nearest coast and, when I moved here from a place that is just 5 miles from the coast, I ended up paying over 80% of what I was paying for a larger home in an area that was about the same affluence (lack of affluence describes it better), which is how I know all of this. Put it this way, where I moved to was so much less populated that my auto insurance dropped by almost half. I went from a single dwelling house in a popular neighborhood near the coast to a townhouse in a small city that didn't even have a Starbucks when I moved here. Yet homeowner's barely declined. When I pushed the topic on the agencies I got quotes from, they all said the same thing that proportional costs are not part of home insurance in Florida.

Damn, GM hit hard by Reps this time. They got hit hard by Dems up to 2008 when they deregulated banks, thus requiring a bailout. I wonder if Trump is going to follow suit and provide bailout for his stupid decisions.

I know DR lib kids weren't alive in 2008 and won't accept anything bad that their party does but that doesn't make it any less true.

It's just normal Republican logic. Yes, this is going to benefit the rich incredibly and there is no hiding that at all. However, as usual it will help the average person but only if they know how to take advantage of it and can take the risk. In other words, very few average people (by proportion) will see any benefit to this.

What really shocks me about this decision though is the tax implications. I haven't read the full details yet but I want to know the estimates on tax income for the government. 401k gains are not taxed, so it will be like the IRA situation in which you can add in a certain amount to shield from taxes. Which means, sometime in the next 3 or so years we are going to see both parties trying really hard to increase that cap significantly in order to take advantage of more shielding. Which, again, really helps the average person who knows how to take advantage of it but not nearly as much as the rich.

So they are using this for the same exact reason Trump is yet liberals support the EU doing it. I'll spell it out for you so even a DR lib kid should be able to understand (not that it matters as all they will do is resort to name calling and demonizing because they can't deny it).

Trump saw that other countries were taking advantage of the US in trade deals, and have been for decades. So his plan is to modify them so that it makes more sense for America to produce what it can produce and only import what it needs that it can't make on its own or doesn't make sense to make on its own. If you read the article, that's exactly what EU is doing now. Now that the trade deals with the US aren't as lucrative and beneficial to them for the sake of the US, they are not looking at what they can produce and only import what they need that they can't make on their own or doesn't make sense to make on their own. And there is nothing wrong with this. But liberals still for some reason cling to the idea that they want other countries to take advantage of the hard work Americans have done for 250 years to become economic power we are today.

All it takes is like a little bit of reasoning skills. A little bit of critical thinking. It doesn't take much. But, the first step you have to take to EVER be able to recover from your problem, and it is a problem, is that you have to get rid of your partisan blinders and learn objectivity. Now, objectivity doesn't mean you have to agree with everything, all it means is you don't hold beliefs so ingrained in your psyche that you are incapable of seeing from other valid perspectives. So it's not attacking your ego, which is a liberal's food these days in politics.