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Check out David Walker, comptroller general during several presidents going back to Bush.

With unfunded liabilities, like social security, etc. our debt has been in the 100 trillion range. Again, going back to possibly even clinton. And people think I worry about debt too much. (oh, this isn't an R or D thing. It's real, and both have done it)

My guess is there are two possibilities.

1. If the Dems take over the House and Senate in 2026.

2. When trump finally leaves office in 2028

You are correct that neither party has done anything to help reduce the budget deficit. One difference is right now the party in power tells the people it cares while ballooning the budget deficit even further.

The last administration that seemed to care anything about the budget was Bill Clinton.

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from barring foreign student enrollment at Harvard

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from cutting off Harvard’s enrollment of foreign students, an action the Ivy League school decried as unconstitutional retaliation for defying the White House’s political demands.

In its lawsuit filed earlier Friday in federal court in Boston, Harvard said the government’s action violates the First Amendment and will have an “immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders.”

“With the stroke of a pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard’s student body, international students who contribute significantly to the University and its mission,” Harvard said in its suit. “Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard.”

The temporary restraining order was granted by U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs.

The Trump administration move has thrown campus into disarray days before graduation. Harvard said in the suit. International students who run labs, teach courses, assist professors and participate in Harvard sports are now left deciding whether to transfer or risk losing legal status to stay in the country, according to the filing.

The impact is heaviest at graduate schools such as the Harvard Kennedy School, where almost half the student body comes from abroad, and Harvard Business School, which is about one-third international.

Along with its impact on current students, the move blocks thousands of students who were planning to come for summer and fall classes.

Harvard said it immediately puts the school at a disadvantage as it competes for the world’s top students. Even if it regains the ability to host students, “future applicants may shy away from applying out of fear of further reprisals from the government,” the suit said.

If the government’s action stands, Harvard said, the university would be unable to offer admission to new international students for at least the next two academic years. Schools that have that certification withdrawn by the federal government are ineligible to reapply until one year afterward, Harvard said.

Harvard enrolls almost 6,800 foreign students at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Most are graduate students and they come from more than 100 countries.

The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, accusing Harvard of creating an unsafe campus environment by allowing “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” to assault Jewish students on campus. It also accused Harvard of coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party, contending the school had hosted and trained members of a Chinese paramilitary group as recently as 2024.

Harvard President Alan Garber earlier this month said the university has made changes to its governance over the past year and a half, including a broad strategy to combat antisemitism, He said Harvard would not budge on its “its core, legally-protected principles” over fears of retaliation. Harvard has said it will respond at a later time to allegations first raised by House Republicans about coordination with the Chinese Communist Party.

The threat to Harvard’s international enrollment stems from an April 16 request from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who demanded that Harvard provide information about foreign students that might implicate them in violence or protests that could lead to their deportation.

Harvard says it provided “thousands of data points” in response to Noem’s April 16 demand. Her letter on Thursday said Harvard failed to satisfy her request, but the school said she failed to provide any further explanation.

“It makes generalized statements about campus environment and ‘anti-Americanism,’ again without articulating any rational link between those statements and the decision to retaliate against international students,” the suit said.

Harvard’s lawsuit said the administration violated the government’s own regulations for withdrawing a school’s certification.

The government can and does remove colleges from the Student Exchange and Visitor Program, making them ineligible to host foreign students on their campus. However, it’s usually for administrative reasons outlined in law, such as failing to maintain accreditation, lacking proper facilities for classes, or failing to employ qualified professional personnel.

Noem said Harvard can regain its ability to host foreign students if it produces a trove of records on foreign students within 72 hours. Her updated request demands all records, including audio or video footage, of foreign students participating in protests or dangerous activity on campus.

The lawsuit is separate from the university’s earlier one challenging more than $2 billion in federal cuts imposed by the Republican administration.

https://apnews.com/article/harvard-...lawsuit-94b65866c563e67a7a7a3c79e90144d6

The guy was and is a complete sleazebag, but looking at all things objectively, Clinton was a Democrat by party, but also the most fiscally conservative president in my lifetime (Reagan through 47).

Yeah, I liked him as a president but was ashamed he represented my country as a man. But then I also have to consider that it's not the democrats who claimed to be the moral majority or stand waving the flag preaching about family values while electing a man like trump.

He just approved relief for Mississippi hours ago. 18 states still waiting.

Federal judge strikes down Trump executive order targeting law firm WilmerHale, calling it "unconstitutional"

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday struck down President Trump's executive order targeting D.C.-based law firm WilmerHale, declaring the order "unconstitutional" and permanently blocking the administration from enforcing it.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon issued his opinion Tuesday afternoon, blocking the president's efforts to restrict Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP as a part of the Trump administration's crusade against large law firms that have provoked the ire of the president and his allies.

"For the reasons set forth below, I have concluded that this order must be struck down in its entirety as unconstitutional," Leon wrote in the beginning of his order. "Indeed, to rule otherwise would be unfaithful to the judgment and vision of the Founding Fathers!"

WilmerHale is the law firm where Robert Mueller worked both before and after he was special counsel.

Mr. Trump's executive order urges agencies to take steps to suspend the security clearances of WilmerHale employees, terminate contracts with the law firm and limit federal employees from engaging with WilmerHale employees, among other things. WilmerHale sued the administration, arguing the president's executive order violates the First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments, as well as the Constitution's separation of powers clause.

Leon had firm words for the administration, including when he addressed the firm's First Amendment concerns. "If you take on causes disfavored by President Trump, you will be punished!" Leon wrote. "Other firms facing similar executive orders have capitulated to President Trump."

The executive orders the president has signed have targeted law firms including Perkins Coie, Paul Weiss, and Jenner & Block. So far, the firms have been winning their cases against the administration in court.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-judge-strikes-down-trump-executive-order-wilmerhale/

That pesky old constitution.

Trump's war on Harvard continues.

Trump temporarily backs down on Harvard student ban as judge sides with college

A Boston federal judge said at a hearing May 29 that she planned to issue a preliminary injunction that blocks the Department of Homeland Security from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll foreign exchange students.

The comments from U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs came as the Trump administration attempted to walk back its May 22 directive that immediately revoked Harvard's participation in a federal exchange student program.

The administration sent a letter directly to Harvard on May 22 letter revoking its ability to enroll international students on the grounds that it was "perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ policies."

Harvard sued the Trump administration in Massachusetts, and U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs temporarily blocked the administration from revoking the university's participation in the program. Harvard then moved forward seeking longer-term injunction on the Trump administration's actions as the lawsuit moves forward.

The Trump administration filed a document in court shortly before the May 29 hearing, saying it would provide Harvard with a 30-day process to contest its removal from the international student program.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-extends-block-trump-bid-160201279.html

Just a footnote......

Barack Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 with a Juris Doctor degree, achieving the distinction of magna [censored] laude. He subsequently took a position as a Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review in the spring of 1990.

I'm not saying this has anything to do with his war on Harvard but he has fixated on things even more trivial than this.

ha ha took me a minute to figure this out.

Trump nominates Paul Ingrassia to lead Office of Special Counsel

President Trump nominated former right-wing podcaster Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), a key role for protecting whistleblowers and enforcing laws against electioneering.

Ingrassia is serving as a White House aide and formerly was a writer for the Daily Caller and hosted the podcast Right On Point. He is also an attorney and served on the legal team representing self-described misogynist Andrew Tate.

“I am pleased to nominate Paul Ingrassia to head the United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC),” Trump wrote on his social media site.

“Paul is a highly respected attorney, writer, and Constitutional Scholar, who has done a tremendous job serving as my White House Liaison for Homeland Security.”

Ingrassia will take the reins of the OSC at a key time for the agency.

Trump fired previous special counsel Hampton Dellinger, even after he was confirmed to a five-year term for the role under President Biden.

Dellinger initially contested his firing and prevailed in court, staying in his post and forwarding challenges to Trump’s plans for widespread firings of probationary employees — those hired within the past year or two.

But an appeals court then declined to keep Dellinger in his role while the legal battle advanced, pushing him to quit.

Without Dellinger on the job, the OSC has switched positions on cases now before the Merit Systems Protection Board — another board where Trump has sought to fire leadership appointed to several-year terms.

That includes fighting to keep probationary workers in their roles.

If confirmed, Ingrassia would also be responsible for enforcing the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from campaigning for a candidate while on the job.

During the first Trump administration, officials repeatedly ran afoul of the law, in particular then-aide Kellyanne Conway, who was cited for numerous violations.

In his prior life as a conservative commentator, Ingrassia lavished praise on Tate, calling him the “embodiment of the ancient ideal of excellence” for his “sheer physical prowess” and being “sharp as a tack” and full of “willpower and spirit.”

Tate has been charged with human trafficking in Romania as well as rape in the United Kingdom.

Ingrassia has also pushed for Nick Fuentes, a far-right activist who has espoused white supremacist and antisemitic views, to be reinstated to Twitter, now known as X, calling it a First Amendment issue in a Substack post.

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...inates-ingrassia-office-special-counsel/

Trump's Favorite Writer: "White Men ...Most Capable of Appreciating the Fruits of Our Heritage"

Paul Ingrassia has also defended the Confederate flag and claimed "Israel/Palestine" was "another pysop"

On Truth Social, Trump frequently reposts articles from writer Paul Ingrassia, a member of the New York Young Republican Club Board of Advisors. Ingrassia boasts on his Twitter profile that he's "the author of Trump's favorite Substack."

In fact, based on the number of posts Ingrassia has received from Trump on Truth Social, he very well may be the most reposted writer on Trump's timeline, at least in the recent months, and is arguably Trump's favorite writer. According to Ingrassia's tweets, Trump has reposted Ingrassia's articles at least 8 times and sent the writer autographed items and a personal letter.

However, Trump's favorite writer has a history of problematic tweets:

White men are the "most capable of appreciating" Western Civilization

In December, Ingrassia stated that "exceptional white men are not only the builders of Western civilization, but are the ones most capable of appreciating the fruits of our heritage." The comment suggests that people who aren't white are less capable of appreciating America, and it also ignores the roles that enslaved Africans and others played in building the country.

Descendants of slaves should pay reparations to descendants of slave owners

Speaking of enslaved people, in May, Ingrassia stated he thinks descendants of slaves should be forced to pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners.

The Ukraine flag should be replaced by the Confederate flag

In April, Ingrassia stated that "the Ukraine flag should be designated as treasonous" and those flying it should be disciplined. Ingrassia wanted all the Ukraine flags to be replaced with Confederal battle flags. Ingrassia then defended the Confederate flag by claiming anyone who calls it "hate speech" is "a braindead lemming who knows zilch about American history."

Anti-Trump is a dogwhistle for "anti-white racism"

In March, Ingrassia equated those who are opposed to Trump as practicing "anti-white racism." Ingrassia sees racism in being anti-Trump.

"Team DeSantis deserves to be spot on"

In December, Ingrassia tweeted that "Team Desantis deserves to be spat on because you guys are losers and scumbags."

"Israel/Palestine" is "another pysop"

In October, Ingrassia commented on the warnings of a "global day of jihad" following the Hamas attack. Ingrassia stated that "Israel/Palestine" is "another pysop" like "covid/vaccine," Ukraine, and BLM. Ingrassia lamented that people were falling for it. According to the Center to Protect Journalists, over 23,000 people have died in the Israel/Hamas war.

Psyop is a term used by right wing to minimize an event as a distraction or a possible false flag event. Yes, there will be misinformation that spreads online, especially about war, but that doesn't mean real people didn't die and aren't dying.

The GOP frontrunner's favorite writer has awful tweets. It's looks like he's surrounding himself with the best people again, at least in his own eyes.

https://meidasnews.com/news/trumps-...-appreciating-the-fruits-of-our-heritage

Another clown joins the show to make America LESS again.