DOGE to Cut 1,000 Jobs at Largest U.S. Army Ammunition Plant
The McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (MCAAP), which is operated by the U.S. Department of Defense, is the largest ammunition depot in the United States.
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Tag: Border Control
Trump’s Medicaid reversal should worry Social Security recipients.
House narrowly passes budget resolution containing $100B for defense
The House budget resolution would add about $3 trillion to the deficit in a decade while mandating deep cuts that threaten to significantly shrink Medicaid and food programs for low-income people. It also calls for the debt limit to be raised by $4 trillion.
Democrats decried the blueprint as a “betrayal of the middle class.”
Rep. Mark Takano of California, the top Democrat on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said the plan would harm 9 million veterans that rely on Medicaid for health insurance coverage and more than 1 million veterans who use the SNAP food assistance program, formerly known as food stamps.
He said the Republican budget blueprint would also “take a chainsaw” to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The resolution does not specify exact cuts, but it mandates committees find $2 trillion in total spending reductions to finance tax cuts or reduce the amount of the tax cuts.
Previously:
Speak Up Before VA Health Care Is Gutted #Project2025
Donald Trump’s Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities
DOGE Sets Its Sights on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
Trump Admin Is Misleading Public About Venezuelans at Guantánamo, Attorneys Say
After Kristi Noem, the newly confirmed secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), traveled to Guantánamo Bay earlier this week, she told CNN the Venezuelan migrants being transferred to the notorious U.S. naval base and military prison are “the worst of the worst that we’ve pulled off our streets.”
Immigration attorneys say the facts on the ground do not support Noem’s official narrative about what’s going on at Guantánamo Bay, where President Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a tent city in order to detain up to 30,000 migrants, regardless of the site’s capacity, including asylum seekers fleeing violence and poverty. For civil rights groups, the transfer is only the latest in a series of legally dubious efforts by the federal government to dodge constitutional requirements by incarcerating people at the notorious offshore facility.
Trump Admin Is Misleading Public About Venezuelans at Guantánamo, Attorneys Say
Nothing about the previous attempts by the US government to overthrow the Venezuelan government.
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Venezuelan president blames opponent for post-election violence + More
As predicted: violence by the far-right Venezuelan opposition breaks out across Caracas
How the U.S. Drove Venezuelans North
When they request asylum in the United States, migrants have to say something against their government. But everyone in the Venezuelan community knows that it’s a lie. Venezuelan comedians in Florida, like George Harris, joke about the Venezuelans lying to the migration people just in order to receive asylum.
Tag: 2024 Venezuelan Presidential election
María Corina Machado is the female Javier Milei (aka US Puppet)
Biden Meets with Guaidó 2.0 + Commentary/Notes
The Washington Post: Recognized by U.S. as Venezuela’s President-Elect, Edmundo González Meets With Biden
The encounter, a first for the two men, signals Mr. Biden’s desire to present a broad coalition of support for Mr. González, who met with the right-wing president of Argentina, Javier Milei, over the weekend, and will meet with other regional presidents in the coming days.
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DOGE’s Ties to the Military-Industrial Complex
DOGE’s Ties to the Military-Industrial Complex
Defense contractors: General Atomics, General Dynamics, Honeywell
n.b.: Phil Cox, was formerly with Americans For Prosperity and the Republican Governors Association. Both are affiliated with the Atlas Network through the Koch brothers.
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Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts
Consortium likely to include Elon Musk’s SpaceX in move to grab a bigger slice of $850bn US defence budget
Trump 2.0: Project 2025 Could Impact the Economy and Your Finances
The Trump team lied. Project 2025 is influential with his transition team and his second cabinet.
Project 2025 Could Impact the Economy and Your Finances
What economic proposals are in Project 2025?
Most of Project 2025 would have economic implications if implemented and many proposals would affect Americans on a personal finance level. While this is not an exhaustive list, here are some key proposals:
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How Immigration Is Affecting Whitewater, Wisconsin + What ProPublica Leaves Out
Whitewater, Wisconsin, gained national media attention after the arrival of hundreds of Nicaraguan immigrants motivated the police chief to reach out to President Joe Biden for additional resources.
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Read More »A Secretive ICE Program Trains Civilians on Firearms and Surveillance, Documents Show
ICE recruits civilians to role play as agents for a secretive public relations initiative that trains them to shoot firearms, conduct surveillance, and use lethal force.
A Secretive ICE Program Trains Civilians on Firearms and Surveillance, Documents Show
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Industrial Policy Without Nationalism
Can we expand the state’s role in the economy while diminishing its capacity for war?
The ‘scared majority’ could deliver a landslide victory for Trump (rant)
If you believe that Donald Trump & Co represent the working class, congratulations! They’ve successfully pulled the wool over your eyes! Trump’s tax cuts benefitted the rich and his tariffs (and Biden’s) hurt American consumers, not China!
The author is right about one thing—“fear”. The xenophobic fearmongering about illegal immigrants is outlandish, considering Biden has been deporting them on par with Trump (not to mention the ones being detained at GTMO)!
Another thing, for as long as I’ve been able to vote, neither party has represented the working class! Read about the Powell Memorandum!
The ‘scared majority’ could deliver a landslide victory for Trump
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