Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history
1h 57m ago by lemmy.world/u/MicroWave in politics from www.independent.co.uk
Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use “every available tool” to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including “withholding administrative funds from states” for the first time in history.
There is no single national program for unemployment support, though the federal government partners with state agencies to support temporary financial assistance to out-of-work Americans. Nearly 2 million people are currently receiving those benefits, while roughly 229,000 people are filing initial jobless claims every week, according to the Labor Department.
The waste fraud and abuse are coming from inside the house.
And the senate, and the White House, and mar a lago
I'm not sure you're getting the reference.
Trump and the Republicans want to kill poor people.
& they are succeeding, worldwide
“The American people will no longer tolerate the blatant waste, fraud and abuse of their hard-earned tax dollars — no state should allow it either,”
Excuse me? If anything, the 2024 election made it crystal clear that the American people will, in fact, tolerate the blatant waste, fraud, and abuse of our hard-earned tax dollars. 77 million people actually voted for it.
they even published a fucking playbook called project 2025.
dumbfucks
How do empires die?
Gradually then suddenly.
The US is in the latter stage.
Waste and fraud… If only someone hadn’t started a war with Iran and then paid them $300B three months later to end it, gaining precisely nothing…
And spent 14 million painting a pool blue?
And renaming the color green to blue
They want you so desperate to cling to employment that you will no longer care about working conditions or fair wages or be willing to endanger said employment by being politically active.
Yeah...
But they're idiots.
There's not enough jobs to go around, people won't quietly starve. And the only people with anything to steal from are the wealthy.
They just created a shit ton of people with literally nothing to lose.
And time to both think about that fact, and to do something.
Don't stop your enemy from committing a terrible mistake.
The new distraction from the Epstein files is here!
So Trump is tanking the economy and burning through cash so bad he has to take money from people without jobs.
Technically this would boost "the economy" in the way these guys measure it by increasing corporate profits and stock values because companies will be able to squeeze there workers for more output with the greater threat of unaided unemployment.
But lowering wages would decrease consumer spending
A majority of consumer spending is now done by the top 20%, as long as this doesn't effect them the corporate overlords don't give a fuck.
It doesn’t matter what it is, if it’s for working class, then it’s a terrible idea and needs to go.
Sesame Street FFS.
I do think this is Vought though. Trump is too addled at this point in time.
Just die already.
Make the masses even more desperate. Surely they won't resort to extrajudicial means to survive.
WTAF? We all pay into this shit.
Your employer pays into it, but most of that goes to the state.
But yeah, if they aren't going to pay out. Why should I keep paying it.
If he’s worried about fraud in government he outta check his pockets.
Oh he knows
How to speedrun the revolt
Being AGAINST Fraud means NOT Taking Bribes! NOT giving Handouts to Illegal Immigrants that FIRED Hundreds of Thousands of Americans! NOT using Taxpayer Dollars on Vanity Projects! NOT giving my Friends Billions of Dollars in a Slush Fund! NOT giving Single moms Unemployment Benefits! And there's NO WAY this Backfires!
The biggest waste in the USA right now is the oxygen keeping him alive.
Kamala probably would have done the same thing, so we really didn't have a choice.