Senator denounces order to pause all funding and says it’ll have ‘devastating impact’ on ‘most vulnerable people’ in US

Summary

Senator Bernie Sanders condemned Trump’s order to freeze all federal loans and grants, calling it a “dangerous move towards authoritarianism” and “blatantly unconstitutional.”

The directive, exempting Social Security and Medicare, is expected to impact universities, nonprofits, food assistance programs, health centers, and disabled veterans.

Sanders emphasized that Congress holds the “power of the purse” and urged Americans to oppose the order.

Attorneys general are preparing legal challenges to overturn the freeze.

  • @some_designer_dudeEnglish
    3•1 day ago

    As if anything he’s doing is to help the fucking taxpayers… Certainly not the majority of them. Maybe the ones in the top brackets, so they can pay even less while the working class gets tax hikes and inflated prices for everything essential.

    I will agree that this is what was voted for. Now the idiots get to lay in the bed they’ve just shat in.

    • @Shardikprime
      1•1 day ago

      Those “fucking taxpayers” are voters.

      And if you ever dream of winning another election, you need them

      So yeah maybe take that into account

      About it helping or not, we will have to wait and see. You don’t usually reduce spend just for the kicks of it. Ideally it is to stop taxing the people or redirecting to specific emergency needs