Trump to defund 4 democrat run cities

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Pres. Trump aims to defund Democratic-run cities like NYC, DC for allowing 'lawless' protests

The move would jeopardize billions of dollars in aid that could be used to help recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

abc7news.com

NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to begin the process of defunding Democratic-run cities, claiming officials running cities like New York City, Washington D.C., Seattle and Portland allowed "lawless" protests.

I fully agree

 

[bluzman61]

Pres. Trump aims to defund Democratic-run cities like NYC, DC for allowing 'lawless' protests

The move would jeopardize billions of dollars in aid that could be used to help recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

abc7news.com

NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to begin the process of defunding Democratic-run cities, claiming officials running cities like New York City, Washington D.C., Seattle and Portland allowed "lawless" protests.

I fully agree

Wonderful news! Thanks for the post.

 

[Coyote]

Red meat for his base, and more evidence for the rest of us how lawless, incompetent and ignorant (of law, constitution, etc) this president is. It is highly unlikely he can legally do this

Trump signs memo to defund 'lawless' cities but experts raise legality doubts

Even if federal agencies are able to find justification to reduce funding to certain cities, perhaps via grants linked to law enforcement, any funding restrictions are unlikely to hold up to legal challenges, he added.​

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“The president obviously has no power to pick and choose which cities to cut off from congressionally appropriated funding,” said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law scholar at Harvard, and recently the co-author of To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment. Trump “has no defunding spigot. The power of the purse belongs to Congress, not the Executive. Donald Trump must have slept through high school civics,” Tribe said in an email.​

 

[Rye Catcher]

Typical of Trump Supporters, simple thinkers have no clue as to the consequences of this E.O., this time I'm sure considered by Trump.

Q. Who gets hurt by this (likely) illegal action?

A. The poor, the elderly, the infirm and off course his favorite targets, minorities.

 

[jwoodie]

Red meat for his base, and more evidence for the rest of us how lawless, incompetent and ignorant (of law, constitution, etc) this president is. It is highly unlikely he can legally do this

Trump signs memo to defund 'lawless' cities but experts raise legality doubts

Even if federal agencies are able to find justification to reduce funding to certain cities, perhaps via grants linked to law enforcement, any funding restrictions are unlikely to hold up to legal challenges, he added.​

​

“The president obviously has no power to pick and choose which cities to cut off from congressionally appropriated funding,” said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law scholar at Harvard, and recently the co-author of To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment. Trump “has no defunding spigot. The power of the purse belongs to Congress, not the Executive. Donald Trump must have slept through high school civics,” Tribe said in an email.​

 

[Meathead]

Pres. Trump aims to defund Democratic-run cities like NYC, DC for allowing 'lawless' protests

The move would jeopardize billions of dollars in aid that could be used to help recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

abc7news.com

NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to begin the process of defunding Democratic-run cities, claiming officials running cities like New York City, Washington D.C., Seattle and Portland allowed "lawless" protests.

I fully agree

MAGA

 

[Meathead]

Q. Who gets hurt by this (likely) illegal action?

A. The poor, the elderly, the infirm and off course his favorite targets, minorities.

You mean the same people who are getting hurt by the thugs looting and rioting?

Cry me a fucking river.

 

[Shelzin]

Red meat for his base, and more evidence for the rest of us how lawless, incompetent and ignorant (of law, constitution, etc) this president is. It is highly unlikely he can legally do this

Trump signs memo to defund 'lawless' cities but experts raise legality doubts

Even if federal agencies are able to find justification to reduce funding to certain cities, perhaps via grants linked to law enforcement, any funding restrictions are unlikely to hold up to legal challenges, he added.​

​

“The president obviously has no power to pick and choose which cities to cut off from congressionally appropriated funding,” said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law scholar at Harvard, and recently the co-author of To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment. Trump “has no defunding spigot. The power of the purse belongs to Congress, not the Executive. Donald Trump must have slept through high school civics,” Tribe said in an email.​

I agree with everything you said there.

However... He can, and I believe he SHOULD, say that he doesn't believe the rest of America should pay for shit that the cities ALLOWED the rioters to burn down. I certainly agree with that. You get what you vote for.

 

[Rambunctious]

All they have to do is to stop the riots...we all know they could if they wanted to....they can't break their city and expect to get a check from the tax payer to clean it up...that's bullshit....

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Red meat for his base, and more evidence for the rest of us how lawless, incompetent and ignorant (of law, constitution, etc) this president is. It is highly unlikely he can legally do this

Trump signs memo to defund 'lawless' cities but experts raise legality doubts

Even if federal agencies are able to find justification to reduce funding to certain cities, perhaps via grants linked to law enforcement, any funding restrictions are unlikely to hold up to legal challenges, he added.​

​

“The president obviously has no power to pick and choose which cities to cut off from congressionally appropriated funding,” said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law scholar at Harvard, and recently the co-author of To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment. Trump “has no defunding spigot. The power of the purse belongs to Congress, not the Executive. Donald Trump must have slept through high school civics,” Tribe said in an email.​

You are so full of shit. The progs mayors and governors say it is the Presidents fault for all the Burning, Looting and Murder. The local police are the ones shooting the black thugs in the streets trying to stop crime, then the BLM moves to that city and you fuckers blame the President. So with § 1355.36 powers he can have funds diverted or withheld because of the rampant crime those cities are allowing..

45 CFR § 1355.36 - Withholding Federal funds due to failure to achieve substantial conformity or failure to successfully complete a program improvement plan.

www.law.cornell.edu

 

[ReinyDays]

Portland will be fine ... she only gets a couple million from the Federal government ... at her heart, she's a port city ...

This sets another precedent ... if a Republican President is allowed to do this, so will the next Democrat President ... be careful Phoenix, Baton Rouge and Louisville ... abortion clinics are on their way ... ha ha ha ...

 

[JLW]

In other words and by extension, Trump wants to defund these cities‘ police departments. He wants these cities’ residents to suffer to satisfy his craven base. Trump’s MO is a clear as his immorality.

 

[Blues Lifer]

Typical of Trump Supporters, simple thinkers have no clue as to the consequences of this E.O., this time I'm sure considered by Trump.

Q. Who gets hurt by this (likely) illegal action?

A. The poor, the elderly, the infirm and off course his favorite targets, minorities.

It's typical that folks like yourself can't realize that the focus of your blame should be on the democrat scumbags that allowed all of this to happen in the first place.

 

[Astrostar]

Pres. Trump aims to defund Democratic-run cities like NYC, DC for allowing 'lawless' protests

The move would jeopardize billions of dollars in aid that could be used to help recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

abc7news.com

NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to begin the process of defunding Democratic-run cities, claiming officials running cities like New York City, Washington D.C., Seattle and Portland allowed "lawless" protests.

I fully agree

HE CAN'T DO THAT!!!!!!!! ONLY CONGRESS CAN!!!!!!! BIGLY!!!!!!!!!!

 

[airplanemechanic]

The house controls the purse strings and this would NEVER make it through Nazi Pisslosers house. Even if she was in the salon without a mask during the vote.

 

[ABikerSailor]

You know, the more Trump tries to look and act tough, the more he shows his ignorance of how things actually work in the government. Congress is the only branch that can fund/stop money from going to cities, not Trump. He's looking more and more like a tinpot dictator the more he does crap like this.

 

[BigDave]

 

[ABikerSailor]

The house controls the purse strings and this would NEVER make it through Nazi Pisslosers house. Even if she was in the salon without a mask during the vote.

Hell, I'd be willing to bet that there are a few Republican senators and representatives who think this is a stupid idea.

 

[BigDave]

You do realize that when President Trump wins reelection there is nothing to keep him from pardoning the Veterans of the United States who swore an oath to defend this country against "SOCIALISM". When all the Socialist Scum is brought to trial, and then shot for being enemies of the state, those like Bernie Sanders and AOC can be put infront of a fire squad and i will be there to pull the trigger....You dumbasses might want to get to Cuba before Nov 4th.....

Venezuela or Canada would be two other places for them to go.

 

[ABikerSailor]

You do realize that when President Trump wins reelection there is nothing to keep him from pardoning the Veterans of the United States who swore an oath to defend this country against "SOCIALISM". When all the Socialist Scum are brought to trial, and then shot for being enemies of the state, those like Bernie Sanders and AOC can be put infront of a firing squad and i will be there to pull the trigger....You dumbasses might want to get to Cuba before Nov 4th.....

You need to look up the Oath of Enlistment for US servicemembers, because the oath DOES NOT say that we will defend the country against socialism. The oath of a US servicemember clearly states that we will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Nothing in there about socialism.