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Just want to get this straight...Hegseth is fine renaming bases to their original Confederate names, but he wants to revoke former CSAF Milley's security detail and drop him down a rank?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/defense-secretary-revokes-mark-milleys-170703226.html

Defense secretary revokes Mark Milley's security detail and orders IG review
Courtney Kube

Retired Gen. Mark Milley's security detail and clearance were revoked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley that he is revoking his security detail and clearance and ordering a review of the retired general's conduct to see whether his rank should be re-evaluated, the Pentagon said.

Hegseth, whose first day at the Pentagon was Monday, directed the Defense Department's inspector general to look into "the facts and circumstances" surrounding Milley’s conduct "so that the Secretary may determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his military grade review determination," Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot said.

The statement did not provide specific reasons for the moves, although Defense Department chief of staff Joe Kasper said, “Undermining the chain of command is corrosive to our national security, and restoring accountability is a priority for the Defense Department under President Trump’s leadership.”

Milley did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment.

Milley had served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under both former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump during his first term, and he was at odds with Trump over various issues.

In 2020, Milley apologized for accompanying Trump to a photo-op in front of a church by the White House after the president ordered the violent removal of protesters demonstrating over the death of George Floyd.

Toward the end of Trump's first term, Milley called the head of China's military, Gen. Li Zuocheng, and assured him the U.S. had no plans to enter into military conflict with China after the U.S. received intelligence that Chinese officials thought the U.S. was going to attack their country.

Milley also played a key role during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan under Biden, although he and other military leaders later said they had recommended to the president to keep a small contingent of troops in the country past the deadline to pull out.

Milley was included in the slew of pre-emptive pardons Biden issued hours before Trump's inauguration last week, which was intended to protect him from political retaliation during the new Trump administration, Biden said.

Last week, a portrait of Milley was suddenly removed from the walls of the Pentagon, though officials couldn't say what was behind its being taken down. A portrait of him as army chief of staff was also taken down last night, and the holes where it was affixed to the wall were covered and painted over.

Of course! It's the new MACA campaign. Make America Confederate Again. Milley was pardoned so now they're searching for some other way to punish him because you know, "Mean man don't like trump!"

Just one more part of the revenge tour.

Trump says he will ‘demand’ that interest rates come down, but it won’t be that simple

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ec...rrowing-6ef86392b080ca963ec633546009409b

That was reported six days ago. The Fed refused to cut interest rates today. Trump tantrum will soon follow.

Another failed promise to working class Americans. What’s next? A tax cut for the rich and SS and tips for hard working elderly adults will continue to be taxed. Promises Promises. As the Latino voters who voted for Trump are finding out.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/29/trump-nasa-astronauts-musk-spacex

Not anything to do with a campaign promise... But just a perfect example of the snake oil salesman. I know its only Muppets that buy this sort of stuff, along with stuff like the $50m for condoms, but there's lots of Muppets around.

Trump throws Gitmo up against the wall to see if it sticks. Anyways More tax payer dollars on jailing illegal migrants. Even their own countries won’t take these people back.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/migrants-guantanamo-bay-executive-order-ea6a2e72

I actually think not taxing tips is a terrible idea all around. Kamala proposed it too, in reaction to Trump’s proposal. I think it’s just dumb flat out.

1. We have a revenue crisis as it is.

2. This will move a lot of employers to move to tipping. Tipflation would absolutely go through the roof. Way beyond the already annoying level that it currently is.

Would be no revenue shortages if the rich paid their fair share.

im just here to see if SBD and memphis walk back their ridiculous post about hamas getting $50 mill worth of condoms.

FATE and I had a really good conversation on how overreaction to everything Trump does is one of the reasons he won, and I do believe that's true. However, like what you cited, there are two sides to the coin. One of the other reasons he won is that there exists this reactionary following that thinks everything he does or says is true, and the result is irrational exuberance. Frankly, they believe his - and now Elon's - lies and ridiculous hyperbole. Not only is pitching those falsities one of the reasons he won, but it's also extremely dangerous. People now react without questioning.

Anyhow, here's this:

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-condoms-fact-check-trump-50-million-26884cac6c7097d7316ca50ca4145a82

During a signing ceremony Wednesday for the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump claimed that his administration had “identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.”

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, made a similar claim on Tuesday during her debut press briefing, stating that the Department of Government Efficiency and the Office of Management and Budget “found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.” She called the alleged aid “a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.” But there’s no credible evidence to support these claims.

Here’s a closer look at the facts:

CLAIM: The Trump administration stopped $50 million from being sent to the Gaza Strip to buy condoms for Hamas.

THE FACTS: Trump and his spokesperson appeared to be referring to a grant or grants that USAID awarded to a group called the International Medical Corps worth $102.2 million to provide medical and trauma services in Gaza. The State Department earlier Wednesday described this as an example of “egregious funding” not aligned with American interests or the president’s policies.

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce similarly wrote Tuesday on X that the agency had “prevented $102 million in unjustified funding to a contractor in Gaza, including money for contraception” thanks to a pause in foreign assistance.

Officials said the Trump administration stopped two $50 million buckets of “aid” for Gaza via the International Medical Corps, which included: family planning programming including emergency contraception; sexual healthcare including prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs); and adolescent sexual and reproductive health.


The $100 million for these programs included contraceptives, officials said, adding that condoms have traditionally always been used for family planning in developing countries by USAID.

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According to the IMC, “No US government funding was used to procure or distribute condoms, nor provide family-planning services.”

The IMC said in a press release that it has received $68,078,508 from USAID to support its operations in Gaza since October 7, 2023. They said the resources were used to operate two large field hospitals currently located in central Gaza—one in Deir Al Balah and one in Al Zawaida — offering a combined total capacity of more than 250 beds, including 20 in the emergency room and 170 in the surgical department. These facilities have provided around-the-clock medical care to about 33,000 civilians per month.

The IMC said that since January 2024 it has provided healthcare to more than 383,000 civilians who had no other access to services or treatment, including performing about 11,000 surgeries. According to statistics provided by the IMC, they also assisted in the delivery of some 5,000 babies, screened 111,000 people for malnutrition, treated 2,767 for acute malnutrition and distributed micronutrient supplements to 36,000 people.

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Refugees International President Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID’s COVID-19 assistance portfolio for the Biden administration, refuted Trump and Leavitt’s claims Wednesday on X.

“USAID procures condoms for around $0.05 apiece,” he wrote. “$50m would be ONE BILLION condoms. What’s going on here is NOT a billion condoms for Gaza. What’s going on is that the bros at DOGE apparently can’t read govt spreadsheets.”

USAID’s financial year 2023 report on contraceptive and condom shipments, the most recent data available, notes that only one Middle Eastern country — Jordan — received a small shipment of injectables and oral contraceptives valued at $45,680 for government programs only. This was USAID’s first shipment to the Middle East since financial year 2019.

USAID reports from the first three-quarters of 2024 show the only family planning programs funded by the agency in the Middle East were in Jordan and Yemen.

Just Clicking, But do you all remember when Trump said he knew nothing about Project 2025? Well, that turns out to be a lie. He's building towards it as we speak.

Good less money going to the government less spending they can do. Cut more government jobs. The smaller the government the better for the country. Unless you like spending 50 million for condoms in gaza, 45 million for diversity programs in Burma, etc.... The waste is ridiculous, and you know the recipients do not use that money for what it was intended.

If I had gone out there and actually asked someone to prove the point I made in my last post, and worked closely with them to tailor a post that would prove my point, I still don't think it would have been as good at proving my point as what you just wrote.

Thank you.

I actually think this is worthy of breaking down on a piece-by-piece basis. Not because it will convince DotD that perhaps his viewpoint is flawed, because I think that is beyond hope at this point, but just for the general viewing public.

"Good less money going to the government less spending they can do."

Let's start here. Deficit spending has been rampant since the turn of the millennium, across administrations, both Republican and Democrat. Not generating revenue has not curbed spending. The person YOU voted for actually cut revenue during his last administration. So did that deter him from spending? NOPE! Spent money like a drunken sailor.

"Cut more government jobs."

Thanks for that...appreciate your support. This clearly shows ignorance, though. Like I mentioned before, if we cut every Government job and had ZERO federal employees, it wouldn't come close to fixing things. You are just another person taking the bait because the administration and those supporting it don't have a clear plan. The elephants in the room are SS, healthcare and defense. Musk realized that, which is why he walked back his $2T promise.

Also, when it comes to government jobs, again, you have very little idea of what you are talking about. Let's say they fire me. Go ahead. Let the defense contractors just sell their products commercially at their proposed prices. As far as the numbers go, I would say that you have spent fractions of a cent paying for my salary over my career. I also feel very confident that I have saved you, via negotiations, individually somewhere around $10. Not a bad return on investment is it? But, nah, go ahead and just say stuff that you know very little about.

"The smaller the government, the better for the country."

I actually don't disagree with this in principle. It just so happens, though, that the part of the Government that is getting smaller is the part of the Government that holds politicians accountable and/or the part of the Government that would hold billionaires' influence of the Government in check.

"Unless you like spending $50 million for condoms in Gaza, 45 million for programs in Burma, etc...."

Riiiiiiight... Did you fact check any of that?

"The waste is ridiculous, and you know the recipients do not use that money for what it was intended."

Waste is bad. It's very prevalent. You, Memphis and a host of others are focused on things like $50M of waste, which is built on false pretenses. You're also trying to look at proverbial pennies being wasted while someone is walking out of your house with bags of cash and a whole bunch of jewelry.

I have previously proposed non-reactive, fact-based solutions based on my experience actually working with the expenditure of government funds. I saw nothing from you or anyone else who voted for this administration respond substantively to those. That proves you're reacting and chasing headlines, rather than being interested in finding a solution.

Trump bashes Fed after bank doesn’t cut rates

President Trump ripped the Federal Reserve and the man he appointed to lead it Wednesday after the central bank kept interest rates steady.

In a post on Truth Social, the president accused the Fed and Powell of allowing inflation to spiral to four-decade highs in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession.

“Because Jay Powell and the Fed failed to stop the problem they created with Inflation, I will do it by unleashing American Energy production, slashing Regulation, rebalancing International Trade, and reigniting American Manufacturing, but I will do much more than stopping Inflation, I will make our Country financially, and otherwise, powerful again!” Trump wrote.

“If the Fed had spent less time on DEI, gender ideology, “green” energy, and fake climate change, Inflation would never have been a problem. Instead, we suffered from the worst Inflation in the History of our Country!”

Trump, who elevated Powell to Fed chair in 2017, frequently criticized the Fed’s monetary policy during his first term and recently said he knows how to handle interest rates better than the central bank.

As the Fed started cutting interest rates last fall and loosening policy after tightening it in response to the post-pandemic inflation, Trump softened his criticisms of Powell, saying that he’d let him serve out his term.

But Trump turned the heat back up on Powell last week.

“I think I know interest rates much better than they do, and I think I know it certainly much better than the one who’s primarily in charge of making that decision,” Trump told reporters last week, ostensibly referring to Powell.

Powell said during Wednesday’s press conference he’s had “no contact” with Trump, despite his public remarks.

“I’m not going to have any response or comment whatsoever on what the president said. It’s not appropriate for me to do so,” he said. “The public should be confident that we will continue to do our work as we always have, focusing on using our tools to achieve our goals.”

After dropping over the course of 2023 and hovering around 3 percent last year, inflation has once again proven sticky, ticking up to a 2.9 percent annual increase in December from 2.4 percent in September, marking a three-month increase.

Even as short-term interest rates have been falling, long term rates in the bond market have been going up, an unusual divergence that could reflect worries about the deficit or diminishing foreign investment, among other factors.

Tariffs proposed by Trump could weigh on the economy by pushing inflation up if businesses pass their tax bills onto consumers.

https://thehill.com/business/5114268-trump-attacks-fed-interest-rates/

It's so easy to predict how a petulant toddler with a penchant for tantrums will react to not getting what they want.

It's a great post all round - but this here is the jackpot. Hits the nail on the head ... and it's the unvarnished truth.

BUT .... the Reptards - to use a slur that has been used endlessly by one poster and never challenged by the likes of Memphis and others - ate up the lie, spread the lie, joked about the lie and passed it around the world a milllion times. Now you've got Reptards including those on this site that will not own that they were lied to or spread lies. You've then got w huge - literally millions and millions - plugged into their Reptard echo chamber who heard Biden was spending $50m on condoms for Gaza .... and they will never hear the truth because the echo chamber and the influencers they are plugged into would never walk the lie back and tell the truth.

flood the zone .... Bannon's words. And anyone with a brain can figure out the ONLY people who could ever be interested in flooding the zone are those with a bogus and corrupt agenda and who are lying. Period.

Currently trump sent condolences to the families of those lost in the mid air collision between an airliner and a Blackhawk helicopter over Washington D.C. last night. He followed that up by directly blaming Biden, Buttigieg and DEI for it while the actual details of what happened have not yet been reached. The petulant child just can't help himself.

It's fairly unbelievable.

His post last night after it happened ... just hard to believe it was so bad. When a disaster strikes, just me but I want the POTUS to be presidential and not just tweet and say stuff that a random guy at a bar might say to me. Today was worse for sure.

Thanks for the nod.

Today I lost a favorite aunt. She battle six years of covid complications and finally succumb this morning. Brain fog and internal bleeds kept putting her in and out of care facilities. She got sick because Trump told them it was safe to have family gatherings at Christmas the year of the shut downs. They all took his word for it. And they still support him. Same family lost my cousins husband within 3 days of him contracting covid. Yet, they refused to wear masks. This Trumpian ignorance and blind loyalty has real world consequences. He had just turned 60, my aunt was 82. His dad lived to almost 100 and her mom made it to 101. They both had the genes and pre covid health to do the same. I don’t blame Trump for killing them, it was their decision based on the lies and the echo chamber that eventually killed both.

My hate for all things MAGA is on mega-nuclear-extreme today, so I’ll refrain from spreading it. But I wanted to add to the thread that the dumbest mouth-breathing fool to ever hold the office was alive and kicking, while blaming a tragic plane crash on the soldier flying the helicopter and Joe Biden just days after firing the people who keep us safe from the same type of tragedies. That said, it’s unlikely the firings caused this, but his/their utter and complete idiocy is not helping any of us. The sooner EVERYONE figures that out the better.

I'm really sorry to hear about your aunt man. Hope your family is doing well.

Sorry to hear of your loss OCD.

Well, it's official. DoD is full RTO starting Feb 10th.

At least you still have the job. Just had to look up RTO, and honestly thought they ended remote work policy when covid went down. A little ashamed I didn’t know it was still a big thing with the government. All I’ll say bro, is I’m rooting for you to come out on top no matter how this Trump BS plays out.

Thanks man. I sincerely appreciate that.

The building that I work in is an old munitions factory that was scheduled for demolition because it is in just AWFUL shape. Now we will have to keep it because there are not enough desks at the work place. We will also have to increase our infrastructure expenditures across the installation to account for people being back (cleaning, staffing cafeterias, HVAC, setting up work stations, servers, etc.). That'll be an increased cost to the tax payers.

We also had new programs open up who were able to share work space with other programs because our hybrid schedule allowed people to come in a couple days per week, and they could stagger that between two programs, so that both came in on different days. Now we have to find space for all of those people. Previously, we also had leased commercial spaces for programs that could not find office space on the installation. We were able to cut those costs with telework. Now,we're going to have to pick up more spaces to rent than before. That'll be an increased cost to the tax payers.

What's infuriating about all that is that it will be an increased cost to both the tax payers and to the employees because we are picking up the commuting costs again. You can also damn well expect that employees will leave work at the office now. I, for one, will not bend over backwards anymore. I know the vast majority of others feel the same. Flip me the finger and I'll flip it right back. During WFH, I would respond to emails at 11:30 PM right before bed. Not anymore.

As of now, people who are remote, more than 50 miles away from the duty location, can still work remotely, but the next step has been laid out that they will have to report to a federal office location (how arbitrary is that???) to work. So, if you work remotely for DoD at WPAFB for instance, but you live in the middle of Kentucky, you'd have to report to Fort Knox (as an example).

Would anyone there actually be supervisory? No. Would anyone there actually know what you are working on? No. Would anyone there even be in the same branch of the DoD as you? Probably not.

You just can't work from home because....Elon.

I can't seem to get the image to post on here, but there's a good one from Reddit about holding the line against this administration. It actually is pretty inspiring. There's sort of a counter-current developing. Trump/Elon want us out so that they can have their run of the place without checks and balances. Stubbornly staying and calling things out, even to the dolts who don't understand, does have its own level of satisfaction.

Not a done deal but you can tell where they are heading...


House Republicans fail to clinch deal on tax cuts, despite Trump's urging
David Morgan
Wed, January 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM EST·5 min read
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U.S. President Donald Trump attends a House Republican members conference meeting in Miami
By David Morgan

MIAMI (Reuters) - A three-day meeting of U.S. House Republicans, meant to jumpstart President Donald Trump's $4 trillion tax cut agenda, ended on Wednesday without a deal as party fiscal hawks refused to move ahead unless the plan reduced the $1.8 trillion federal deficit.

House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson called the meeting of his conference this week in the hope of reaching consensus on a budget blueprint while they huddled at Trump's Doral resort in Miami.

The hardliners' opposition -- and concern about the nation's growing $36 trillion debt, which Congress will need to act on this year -- could block the tax cut plan in a House where Republicans hold a slim 218-215 majority that is expected to fall soon to 217 seats.


"The Republican Party has to stick together," Trump told the group at the start of its meeting on Monday. "It'd be different if we had a ... 30-person majority. But we don't. We have to help leadership."

With Republicans also holding a 53-47 Senate majority, Trump is pushing lawmakers to extend his 2017 tax cuts that are due to expire at the end of this year, provide funds to tighten border security, deport undocumented immigrants and bolster military spending. The cost of the tax extension alone would surpass $4 trillion, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-partisan think tank.

Trump has also called on Republicans to enact legislation to eliminate federal taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security benefits.

Republicans can currently afford to lose the support of no more than one House member if they want to pass the tax cuts over what is expected to be united Democratic opposition. This week's meeting showed Republican opposition was wider spread.

The leader of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus warned that the plan could fall short of achieving enough savings to make a meaningful dent in the deficit, a key goal among fiscal conservatives.


"That will stop the process," House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris told Reuters. "There's a broad group of Republicans in the conference who believe we have to be very serious about deficit reduction."

HARDLINERS FOCUSED ON DEFICIT

Harris said his roughly three-dozen Freedom Caucus members want a budget resolution that calls for a $3 trillion cut in federal government spending over the next decade, and that hardliners would oppose a plan that identified only half that number of cuts or less.

"That would show that we're not really serious about deficit reduction," Harris said.

The Freedom Caucus has repeatedly bucked party leadership over the past two years and just last month rejected a Trump demand to eliminate the federal government's statutory debt ceiling before he took office.


But since he took office, Congress has taken Trump's side on tough votes -- most notably when 50 Republican senators voted to confirm former Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary in the face of widespread criticism of his personal conduct.

House Republicans have circulated options amounting to trillions of dollars in potential spending cuts to programs including Medicaid and government-sponsored health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Those possibilities have raised concerns among lawmakers who worry about the effects on services in their districts, including hospitals that rely on Medicaid funding.

"Before I agree to vote for a budget resolution, I want a better understanding of where these cuts are going to come from and how it will affect my district," said Republican Representative Nicole Malliotakis. "I understand we all need to make tough decisions ... but I don't want New York to be disproportionately affected. This needs to be fair."

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has blasted the Republican tax plans as "a contract against America" which he warned would hurt working families, the middle class, seniors and veterans and undermine the Medicaid healthcare program for the poor.


LIMITED OPTIONS

Trump has limited the options for Republicans by ruling out cuts to the Medicare and Social Security programs for the elderly -- which represent about a third of the $6.75 trillion federal budget -- leaving Republicans to consider cuts to Medicaid, government-subsidized healthcare under the Affordable Care Act and other alternatives.

"You can talk about specifics in Medicaid. You can talk about specifics in discretionary spending. But it's really not going to be much when you consider the overall budget," said Representative Rich McCormick, a deficit hawk.

Representative Blake Moore, a member of Speaker Johnson's leadership team, predicted that Republicans would face frustration in trying to pay for a 2017 Trump tax cut extension costing more than $4 trillion over a decade.

"We want to offset that as much as possible. Getting to that sweet spot is going to be very, very difficult," the Utah Republican said. "Republicans are going to be eternally frustrated that we can't do more to make sure that we reduce our deficits."

In fact, some say the current debate takes House Republicans into waters where they have not ventured before in recent memory.

"Getting it down to a consolidated list that we can all agree on - virtually to the single member – is something we haven't historically done," said Representative Darrell Issa.

"The problem is that everything we're dealing with has a constituency."

Some Republicans said the cost of the Trump agenda should be seen within a broad context of savings that would include revenues from Trump tariffs, his freeze on federal grants and loans, revenue gains from expanded fossil fuel production and anticipated economic and job growth.

Representative Tom Emmer, the chamber's No. 3 Republican, dismissed the debate about spending cuts as preliminaries leading up to next month's anticipated floor vote on a House budget resolution.

"We need to get everybody on board when the day comes to vote on something. Up until then, people can disagree. They can agree to disagree. They can push whatever agenda they think is best," the Minnesota Republican said.

(Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Scott Malone and Alistair Bell)

First thing that I noticed is that I have to go back to work, but the Republicans are huddling at a resort in Miami?????

"You can talk about specifics in Medicaid. You can talk about specifics in discretionary spending. But it's really not going to be much when you consider the overall budget," said Representative Rich McCormick, a deficit hawk.


This shows the conundrum they are living in. They want to reduce the deficit by not touching the areas where we spend the most money. At the same time, they want to reduce revenue by extending tax cuts.

It's a fool's errand.

Wonder how much Trump just made from this huddle...

Trump hints that DEI may be to blame for the crash in DC.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-challenged-blaming-dei-dc-200820669.html

Man, that’s low…

You don’t actually think Trump will take responsibility for anything that happens under his watch, do you?

What’s low is this. Trump was challenged on his claim that the FAA under Democratic presidents had promoted the hiring of people with disabilities. The fact-checking website Snopes found that the policy Trump referenced has existed for a decade, including his first term.

Careful, the dolts will start calling you an extremist. Eff’em I say. I have two middle fingers attached to two fists if anyone has a problem with it. And this whole debacle might come down to exactly that. I’m ready to go if it does,

They have to stick together to give the oligarchy what they want… R cucks.

It’s a fools errand ordered by the King of Fools. I’m sure glad we dems had it all so wrong…

That asshat blamed the soldier flying the black-hawk and Biden in his press conference, then told one that their follow up reporter their question was inappropriate.

Welcome to 4 years of hell.

It’s not even about taking responsibility or it being his fault. At least don't be a lying, deceitful Richard about it.

A stale thread....the same crew using this as a chat room.

Nothing on the topic? Just criticizing the only people showing up because they don’t vote like you? You sound like Trump looking for excuses…

By all means avoid any of the issues by making such a claim. It's a very Trumpian play. I understnad not wanting to engage on some of the topics - they would be hard to defend and retain any sense of credibility. We can keep it simple if you like - what do you think about the WH claiming there was $50M allocated for condoms for Gaza? A lie that was spread by the WH, repreated here and endlessly around the MAG social media echo chamber ... and yet when the truth and facts emerged, there is silence. While you might be smart enough to admit the statement was egregious and wrong, there's millions upon millions of people who are in the cult of Trump who will go to their grave thinking Biden was trying to give Gaza $50m for condoms. . . . you think that's not worth mentioning?

Amid a flood of executive orders signed Monday, President Trump revoked an executive order signed by former President Biden that set ethics and lobbying rules for appointees.
The Biden-era executive order banned gifts from lobbyists and expanded the requisite “cooling off” period for appointees who leave federal service to join lobbying firms. The order also implemented a one-year ban on “shadow lobbying,” a common practice in Washington in which former officials advise those lobbying government officials rather than directly lobbying themselves.

https://thehill.com/lobbying/5101352-trump-axes-biden-era-ethics-order-lobbying-restrictions/

Peen?

Just to recap…He nixed Biden’s EO ban on lobbyists joining government and govt employees accepting gifts from lobbyists via Executive Order. Then he appointed 5 lobbyists to run 5 different agencies. Then he fired all 5 IGs that were charged with overseeing those agencies.

He gets things done. Draining the swamp.