Trump wants to ⬆️ the military budget $500 billion PER YEAR, close to a 50% ⬆️It’s such a large ⬆️, they have no idea how to even use that much money. Over the decade, it’d cost $5.6 trillionKeep in mind they just took health care & food from people in the largest cuts to Medicaid & SNAP in history
The roughly $900 billion defense budget approved last year was the largest in U.S. history. While other nations have also increased their military spending, the United States already spends more on defense than the next nine countries combined, according to 2023 data from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank.
It’s obvious that there are many many questions after Wexner’s testimony. But did Rep. @robertgarcia.bsky.social forget this? http://www.ms.now/news/greene-…
Half of Americans think that Donald Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein; just 30% think he was not.(Economist / @today.yougov.com)More, via Opinion Today:opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260218
I bet the Republicans will start talking about migrant caravans to the US around election time. I’m sure they would like to blame the Somalians but geography is working against that.
The record amount raised last year underlines megadonors’ eagerness to bankroll an administration that has championed the crypto and AI industries, and ended legal probes into political allies. ft.trib.al/X4MEOff
NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: http://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w…
Rep. Kennedy: "Do you believe your agency has a legal obligation to follow court orders?"ICE Director Lyons: "Yes."Rep. Kennedy: "You have a very strange way of showing it, with a federal judge finding that your agency is in violation of 96 orders in one month alone."
NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week — the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. http://www.politico.com/news/2026/02…
IMPORTANT: It appears there’s a chance that the Trump-Vance White House is going to defy a federal court order to allow Pope Leo’s top ally Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich and Catholic clergy to enter the facility for Ash Wednesday Mass. This would be a historic confrontation between Trump and Leo.
NEW: Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His FavorPresident Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.🎁 > http://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u…
Huge scoop from @jonathanalter.bsky.social on the Trump administration's work behind the scenes to kill a Netflix-Warner Bros. merger and help Paramount win instead. The intended result: a Trump-friendly conglomerate that's basically state-owned media.washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/17/t…
First Trump pushed out career national security experts working to counter cyber threats posed by China.Now he’s shelving critical safeguards they put in place.Why is the Trump Administration so eager to do Beijing’s bidding?
Senator @gallego.senate.gov warns that Trump’s "mob boss" foreign policy is driving our closest allies straight into the arms of China. While Trump picks fights with neighbors, Beijing is building the future of the Americas. Read the full op-ed:
This is terrible. He has done permanent damage to SSA’s reputation and public trust of the agency.
The training issue is very concerning.. I worked in an SSA field office for almost five years between 1976-1981. It takes a couple of years to really feel knowledgeable about the procedures.
7/ Whistleblower alleges that an SSA “database called the Numident, which is the master database of ur personal info, was uploaded to an AWS cloud environment.” [Numident’s data is now allegedly linked to the Save System to facilitate voter purges. This is a centerpiece of the Save America Act]
Social Security is a very successful, very popular program. Its financing challenges are real, but can be managed with common-sense changes. It emphatically does NOT need a radical restructuring, as several new proposals suggest.More from Wendell Primus et al:www.brookings.edu/articles/ins…