Donald Trump’s war on the federal government is an attack on the future and on so many other areas of life.
It is a war on young people who have and wish to enter public service, with many thousands of probationary workers now unemployed, due to major cutbacks in many federal agencies.
It is a war on higher education, cutting funding for training and educating an intelligent work force in the sciences, the humanities, and all other areas of public knowledge.
It is a war on our patriotic veterans, who are losing many government jobs, and a cutting of programs to help veterans who risked their lives, and now are being denied adequate consideration of their health and welfare needs.
It is a war on protection of our national security, with mass purges of dedicated intelligence, foreign policy, and defense personnel who have dedicated their lives and careers to protecting the homeland from foreign threats of authoritarian government, including Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.
It is a war on health care, science, and medicine, and endangers all Americans when it comes to threats from many diseases worldwide, that now will not be dealt with in an efficient matter, and will cost a multitude of lives.
It is a war on the environment, conservation, and the realities of climate change, guaranteeing worldwide disasters that will threaten human existence in the future.
It is a war on our long held alliances with democracies in Europe and in Asia, and antagonizing, unnecessarily, our neighbors, Canada and Mexico, and inciting anti Americanism in Latin America. It is causing our closest allies in NATO and in Asia to reconsider sharing intelligence information.
It is a war on public virtue, with a certainty that we will witness the greatest level of corruption and concentration of wealth in the hands of a few evil individuals, ever seen in American history, far surpassing the earlier corruption that took place under Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and even the first term of Donald Trump.
The Trump Presidency is setting America back to an earlier time before all of the great reforms that took place from the Progressive Era of Theodore Roosvelt and Woodrow Wilson; the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt; the Fair Deal of Harry Truman; the New Frontier of John F. Kennedy; the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson; the movements forward under Republicans Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon; the accomplishments under Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton; and the advancements under Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
The Social Security Administration on Thursday told employees they cannot access “general news” websites from their work-issued devices effective immediately.
Trump told Cabinet members on Thursday that they are in charge of staffing their agencies, not Musk.
After the stock market fell yesterday, the Orange Dictator flip-flopped on tariffs again. The tariffs are now delayed until April 2.
Student loans could be handled by the Small Business Administration, which is headed by Kelly Loeffler, if the Department of Education is eliminated, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that he’s working with the Senate Finance Committee on legislation to codify some of Musk’s DOGE cuts.
State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/embassies-consulates-closures.html
Israel objected to secret U.S.-Hamas talks in tense call
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/07/hamas-talks-trump-netanyahu-hostage-deal
Trump administration must pay debts to USAID partners by Monday, judge rules.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-must-pay-debts-usaid-partners-monday-judge-rules-rcna195248
Judge Reinstates Fired NLRB Member, Rejecting ‘A Presidency That Is Untouchable By The Law’
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-nlrb-trump-supreme-court
MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/maga-world-turns-supreme-court-justice-amy-coney-barrett-rcna194283
Trump layoffs have hollowed out key weather monitoring staff amid storm season.
“The National Weather Service has lost about 10% of its staff, hitting offices prone to severe weather hardest”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-layoffs-nws
That is bonkers.
Elon Musk’s DOGE Sued After Using U.S. Marshals to Take Over Agency
https://newrepublic.com/post/192442/doge-marocco-sued-us-marshals-takeover-usadf-agency
Those Marshals should have refused to do that, as it’s unconstitutional and illegal.
Trump’s FDA pick says he’ll review whether abortion pill must be dispensed in person again.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trumps-fda-pick-says-review-whether-abortion-pill-must-dispensed-perso-rcna195156
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge.
https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074
These Trump people are INSANE.
No, ‘playing dead’ is the last thing Democrats should be doing.
“Party insiders are trying to make the case for doing nothing against Trump. That’s a colossal mistake”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/07/democrats-trump-socialism
Agreed 100% – James Carville and others who are telling Dems to play possum are totally wrong.
House Republican plots to kick dozens of Democrats off panels.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/house-republican-democrats-committees-al-green
Breakup of SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/science/spacex-starship-launch.html
Musk is a disaster in every way.
Second death reported in growing measles outbreak. The person was an unvaccinated adult.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/06/measles-death-outbreak-new-mexico/
Trump is going to Make America Have A Great Recession Again.
https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/06/make-america-have-a-great-recession-again/
Fox News personalities responded to an austerity budget framework from congressional Republicans by assuring viewers that Medicaid could be spared from deep cuts, but a report released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office contradicts those claims.
https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/cbo-contradicts-fox-pundits-finding-gop-budget-requires-medicaid-cuts-fund-tax-cuts
He’s flip flopping yet again on tariffs on Canada, this time including 250% tax on dairy.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/business/tariffs-trump-canada/index.html
Tim Kaine mentions that Republicans want to send education back to the states.
https://bluevirginia.us/2025/03/video-sen-tim-kaine-says-sending-education-back-to-the-states-takes-us-back-to-where-we-were-before-brown-v-board-of-education
PBS has a petition to try to save public media from budget cuts.
https://protectmypublicmedia.org/
Well, well, well…Rubio and Musk got into a clash at the cabinet meeting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html
Pentagon press secretary made an antisemitic post on social media.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/kingsley-wilson-pentagon-leo-frank