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Trump Shutdown Day 1

It’s happening:

Multiple states locked out of Medicaid portal. This is a Trump shutdown, except this time it’s unlawful.

Brian Schatz (@schatz.bsky.social) 2025-01-28T16:27:19.123Z

There was some question as to whether student loans would be allowed to continue and from what I can see at the moment that, like everything else in the federal government,that decision is being decided by some flunky political appointee but nobody knows if it’s going to work or not.

Trump’s gauleiter at the Department of Education is deciding which congressionally appropriated funds can be disbursed and which cannot.

southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) 2025-01-28T17:28:45.691Z

This situation is developing rapidly so who knows whether this will last past the day. If you look at the memo that went out suggesting that it’s being done because of “Marxist” policies, transgenderism and the green new deal, it’s pretty clear that the memo was written by a moron. So who knows?

My office just got a phone call from a domestic violence shelter — the only one serving multiple counties — that says they may have to close their doors if President Trump doesn’t reverse course.

Senator Mark Warner (@markwarner.bsky.social) 2025-01-28T17:25:57.763Z

"What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States. It is blatantly unconstitutional," Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) says of Trump's OMB halting all federal grants."If this stands, then Congress may as well adjourn."

Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social) 2025-01-28T17:35:04.821Z

Meanwhile, as Trump is contemplating taking food away from children and old people, ending cancer research and HIV funding as well as dozens of other atrocities, he’s prepared to reward his buddies in the Tech and Military Industrial Complexes with a big pile of money to develop some bullshit:

President Trump has ordered the development of a next-generation missile defense system he likened to Israel’s Iron Dome in an executive order he signed on Monday that described ballistic missiles and other advanced aerial weapons as “the most catastrophic threat facing the United States.”

But experts immediately raised questions about whether an Iron Dome-style system was feasible for the United States, which is more than 400 times the size of Israel.

He apparently thinks we need to have a defense from Canadian and Mexican rocket attacks. Maybe he really is planning on invading them too.

I’ve written a boatload about Russ Vought over the past couple of years. He’s the architect of all this and I suspect that the “shock and awe” of is is pleasing him greatly. After all, he said out loud that he wants to traumatize federal workers so they will quit. Also he’s a sadistic, Christian nationalist weirdo.

Remember this?

NEW We went undercover in Project 2025. Our investigation uncovered details of the secretive second phase of Project 2025 being led by a Trump insider, with plans to feed hundreds of highly-confidential battle plans directly into the Trump transition team. Watch here.

By the way, if you were thinking that the GOP Congressional appropriators would be miffed since the Constitution gives them the power of the purse, think again:

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