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doc03

(37,252 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 01:57 PM Tuesday

If Trump can stop funding for Biden's

infrastructure act and IRA. Doesn't that also mean he could punish Blue states and spend the money only in Red states.

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If Trump can stop funding for Biden's (Original Post) doc03 Tuesday OP
Trump can do anything that the supremes do not stop him from doing. LiberalArkie Tuesday #1
This. And he will. Maru Kitteh Tuesday #7
That is going to cause a lot of hurt for nothing. Klarkashton Tuesday #2
He did it last time. And that tax bill? It penalized people Scrivener7 Tuesday #3
I think that's the plan stillcool Tuesday #4
Why do we have a Congress when anything doc03 Tuesday #6
I don't think we have a Congress stillcool Tuesday #8
I don't think we can depend on the military.it is doc03 Tuesday #10
He has absolute power Johnny2X2X Tuesday #5
What he's doing is not legal Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday #9

Klarkashton

(2,669 posts)
2. That is going to cause a lot of hurt for nothing.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 02:01 PM
Tuesday

There are a lot of people that were working on those projects.

This is horrible.

Scrivener7

(53,683 posts)
3. He did it last time. And that tax bill? It penalized people
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 02:01 PM
Tuesday

who live in apartments big time.

doc03

(37,252 posts)
6. Why do we have a Congress when anything
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 02:06 PM
Tuesday

can be done by EO. Back when Obama was president EO were unconstitutional.

stillcool

(32,966 posts)
8. I don't think we have a Congress
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 02:16 PM
Tuesday

or a Judiciary. The federal government is kaput. If it isn't dead yet it's on life support. Maybe one big Supreme Court ruling will do it. I remember thinking about how the military would go, back in the first term, with January 6th, and Lafayette Park. I no longer think there will be any saving grace to keep this country whole.

doc03

(37,252 posts)
10. I don't think we can depend on the military.it is
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:07 PM
Tuesday

itself authoritarian just liie the police.

Johnny2X2X

(22,073 posts)
5. He has absolute power
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 02:05 PM
Tuesday

There is nothing his own parter can or will do to stop him. If he wants to shift the tax burden 100% to blue states, who is going to stop him? He could say, no person in a red state has to pay federal income tax anymore, and everyone in the blue states will be taxed at 95%, and no one could stop him.

His party wants him to be a dictator, the SCOTUS told him he is a dictator, he can do here whatever Putin can do in Russia.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(117,834 posts)
9. What he's doing is not legal
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 02:19 PM
Tuesday

Nixon tried it and was slapped down. Then again with today's Extreme Court who knows.

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