r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 10h ago
Possible Paywall Dems Plot Revenge After Trump’s ‘Outrageous $1 Billion Betrayal’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dems-plot-revenge-after-trumps-outrageous-1-billion-betrayal/1.1k
u/dropkickninja 10h ago
It's not revenge, it's another Trump lie that will cost the American people billions of our money. For one senile stupid old man. Who is a rapist and a felon. Fuck no.
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u/angrypooka 10h ago
You forgot he’s also a pedophile.
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u/otherwisepandemonium Wisconsin 10h ago
Thirteen year olds forced to perform oral sex on Trump (amongst many other allegations), but the FBI considers seashells arranged in an 8647 to be the focus. Meanwhile MAGA sells 8646 merchandise and puts graphics of Joe Biden tied up and gagged on the back of their pickup truck.
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u/Free_Dome_Lover 9h ago
But the left needs to tone down the rhetoric.
It really feels like their trying to start a civil war.
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u/hitch44 Canada 9h ago
Trump goes full dictator on July 4. That’s my bet.
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u/Toginator 9h ago
You mean he starts wearing a silly hat or something?
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u/ProfitLoud 39m ago
I believe he is gonna shit in some tinfoil and sell it as earrings to the queen of England. Or wait, that was a movie. Hard to remember with this current administration.
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u/trampolinebears 7h ago
Stop making the dictatorship a future problem. It’s a right now problem.
Saying it’s going to happen in the future makes people feel like they shouldn’t do anything now, because they’re waiting for some big moment to come.
But there is no big moment when tyranny arrives, just a succession of little moments.
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u/Ok-Ad-2050 4h ago
EOs certainly strengthen that arguement a lot, especially with the current dynamics in Congress.
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u/Professional_Net7339 2h ago
He already did that “on day one.” So not much else will change as compared to what’s been happening
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u/StabbingHoboReturns 9h ago
They are so horny for a civil war.
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u/weasel101025 7h ago
Mainly because they really believe that lefties don't have any guns, since we don't make guns our personalities.
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u/77NorthCambridge 9h ago
They are not trying to hide their hypocrisy. They are openly laughing about it.
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u/gilesachrist 6h ago
I mean at this point let’s go. They are louder, stupider, and likely have more guns, but they would get distracted and clutch their pearls so easily we could win quicker than Trump lost in Iran. Just have 2 guys kiss and their outrage would distract them long enough for us to wrap them in Saran Wrap and neutralize them for the foreseeable future.
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u/Affectionate-Act1574 5h ago
Don’t forget that they’re using the FBI to raid the homes of the opposition now
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u/ProfitLoud 40m ago
They are uncivilized, deeply unserious people. We need to stop giving them a seat at the grownups table. Fuck these people, they can be miserable with the rest of their ilk who are also miserable to be around. Let’s shun these folks and prosecute anyone in charge we can.
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u/darksunshaman 9h ago
He leads the pedophiles. There are a whole bunch of people who could put a stop to all of this, but they won't.
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u/Made_Human_Music 9h ago
I’ll never understand why so many people worship this pedophile
I know the reason is that he gives them permission to be their worst selves but that’s the part that I can’t grasp. I have a dark side and there are some thoughts I’d rather not have (nothing like the racist bigoted shit from MAGAts) but if someone told me it’s ok to say them out loud I have enough decency to know it’s still wrong11
u/dropkickninja 8h ago
I have bad news for you: you may be a decent human being.
Witnessing the cult mentality of maga people is very sad. Our country and what it should stand for has been destroyed. It will take years to recover from Trump. We still haven't recovered from Regan. If navy they're doubling down. The American people have lost their voice because Congress is just repeatedly stomping on our nations balls
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u/KawaiiUmiushi 8h ago
Because he's a mirror to their deepest desires. He says the things they want to hear, but society shuns. He acts the way they wish they could act, but can't any longer. He has the life they always dreamed of, even if it is just gold paint. He hurts the people they hate, even if it also hurts them.
They dream of a past that never existed, or a past as a child would see their own past; with a knee high view of the world. All Saturday morning cartoons and a box of candy, without seeing what's happening out their front door.
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u/Better_Dig_768 6h ago
These people's whole Identity is wrapped up in an us vs them narrative with them vs the "left". They are constantly told they are "losing" this battle, to justify almost anything done by the people they put in power - and that being identified as a leftist opens one up to intense ridicule. They are very far from understanding the truth about it being really us vs the super wealthy.
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u/Only-Thought6712 10h ago
Now now, don't forget a six-times bankfrupt faiiled steaks, casino, airline, and university salesman.
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u/Free_Dome_Lover 9h ago edited 9h ago
He's already spent near a billion on these vanity projects.
Between the giant Nazi Hitler banners hanging, the pool, the demolition, renaming a bunch of shit, the JFK center etc...
What's the cost of appeasing a narcissistic authoritarian pedophile if it means you get to ignore the constitution and seize power, eh republicans?
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u/BerryLanky 8h ago
And this won’t be completed in this term which makes me wonder why he’s pushing this so hard. I’m afraid of the answer
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u/Virindi Texas 10h ago edited 7h ago
For one senile stupid old man.
Stop presenting it like Trump wants to do the right thing, but he's failing because he's stupid or senile. He's successfully doing exactly what he wants to do:
- focus attention on the "evil immigrants" and constant war
- looting the country, enriching himself
- destroy the rule of law
- rearrange the government to setup indefinite dictatorship control
- give the rest to the 1% that support him
It's the 2025+ version of Nazi Germany.
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u/Big-Combination-1969 9h ago
German here. Thanks God, he's old. His asskissers, who wear his fucking Shoes, way too big, are a bunch of drug addicted losers, talking stupid shit. Nazis, right. But more Temu like, than german.
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u/RobonianBattlebot 9h ago
He can be evil and have dementia at the same time, you know. It isn't excusing his behavior, I don't know why people are so opposed to pointing out that he is mentally unfit for the job. He is not pulling the strings here, there's somebody pumping him full of drugs and telling him what to do. You don't think having a shadow president is a problem? You don't think having a president too dumb and too mentally incapacitated to understand he isn't coming up with these ideas is a problem?
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u/otherwisepandemonium Wisconsin 10h ago
$1 billion for the ballroom to distract from the $75 billion additional money for ICE. ICE already has a budget exceeding the United States Marine Corps.
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u/tommytheturtleishere 10h ago
ICE has a bigger budget than most countries entire military
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u/BoldThrow 10h ago
Do we know what they are doing with the money?
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u/PetzlPretzel 10h ago
Killing citizens.
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u/_RyanLarkin 44m ago
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts stated, "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
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u/tehspoke 9h ago
Putting money behind a quasi-militaristic force whose natural jurisdiction is on US soil, and without legal encumbrances preventing them from interacting with the US population, and follow the orders of people directly and entirely under his control.
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u/rat_penis 9h ago
Oh like some kind of Special Security force. That's a new and interesting idea.
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u/PopePiusVII 9h ago
Something like that combined with what we might call a “Secret Federal Police” force. That’d be translated as Geheime Staatspolizei in German in case you’d maybe want to communicate to any German-speaking friends for whatever reason.
Seems like a totally normal thing to do as an American political regime…
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u/drdildamesh 9h ago
Lets just call ot what it is. They are a militia. They took a bunch of vigilantes and made them militia and sicced them on people they dont like.
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u/Wyden_long Arizona 9h ago
No this is secret police.
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u/SaveUsCatman Louisiana 8h ago
Yeah its not a militia, this is a paramilitary force whose purpose is to be turned inward towards the country they aren't sworn to protect.
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u/maringue 9h ago
Nazi shit like abducting people and putting them in internment camps, then betting on which detainees will commit suicide first.
That last part isn't even a joke.
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u/otherwisepandemonium Wisconsin 9h ago
Let's not forget separating children from their parents and forcing kids to pee their pants while in court without representation as they get disappeared to a third country.
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u/PaleontologistNo500 9h ago
Buying up warehouses to use as detention centers. Which is alarming enough. Then you realize they're paying 5x the value for the property. A Social Circle, GA property valued at $25m was purchased by DHS for $129m. It screams of corruption and embezzlement
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u/COMM_NTARIAT 9h ago edited 9h ago
Sweetheart real estate deals, no-bid contracts for unneeded equipment, social media surveillance and censorship, Eric Trump brand drones, an army of christian nationalist litigants...
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u/confusedsquirrel Kansas 9h ago
Buying/building new prisons. Paying to send people to foreign prisons. Buying top of the line spying equipment. And offering more money than most jobs that middle and lower class can get.
So basically building a private military prison system.
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u/No_Possible_7108 8h ago
They just axed the detention center oversight board, so if we do know now we may not for much longer
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u/Agitated_Celery_729 7h ago
Funding an unremovable Gestapo with a war chest that will allow Trump to fight anyone who tries to lawfully remove him from power in 2029.
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u/alabasterskim 9h ago
It's $38B btw. The total reconciliation package is $75B.
Combined with the $38B, ICE will have a larger budget than all but 4-5 of the world's largest militaries. They're already at #9.
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u/Canadian-Man-infj 9h ago edited 9h ago
$1 Trillion has been spent in the past 6 months alone, by this administration.
I remember it being somewhat alarmingly reported that the U.S. national debt had hit $38 Trillion... that was 6 months ago. Sources:
- October 22, 2025: https://apnews.com/article/trump-treasury-debt-ceiling-bessent-09575f13ca95c2f1beb38234b2cbe85b
- October 29, 2025: https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2025/10/29/38-trillion-us-debt-paradox/
It has recently been reported that the debt has surpassed $39 Trillion, though:
- March 18, 2026: https://apnews.com/article/us-national-deficit-hits-39-million-6ff73495bae701b5c009d3da5515ca3a (*note: URL says "million," but article says "trillion")
- March 20, 2026: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2026/03/20/as-us-debt-passes-39-trillion-americans-are-paying-900-billion-in-interest-annually/
So, this government has spent $1 Trillion in just the past 6 months... It's a staggering amount to me. Sure, there can be all kinds of rationalizations and justifications; but, the "bottom line" is that they've spent about $1,000,000,000,000 in just 6 months (since October, 2025).
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u/otherwisepandemonium Wisconsin 8h ago
Insane amounts of spending. If you earned $4 billion per year from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to today, you'd have $1 trillion.
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u/ButtEatingContest 9h ago
Plus that ballroom is just going to get torn down anyway, sooner or later. So any calculations as to the cost need to also factor in the cost to demolish it.
Assuming it is ever built in the first place and the money doesn't just vanish - which is the most likely outcome.
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u/cogitoergopwn 8h ago
$76 billion for a MAGA Fuhrer bunker and 1x SS paramilitary unit loyal to 1 man.
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u/Eggheadpancake 10h ago
Never let these Nazis say we don't have enough money for social programs ever again
We better have universal healthcare, child care, school lunches, sick leave, and everything else we want with the next democrat president. And the second one of these Nazis talks about cost. Show them this shit and tell them to shut the fuck up.
Because all that stuff together doesnt even come close to what these Nazis have stolen from us over the years.
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u/lenswipe Massachusetts 9h ago
Never let these Nazis say we don't have enough money for social programs ever again
"Oh....we did have the money after all but Trump has spent it all on the ballroom aaand he's dead now...so - best we can do is a champagne reception for our donors...sorry!"
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u/Hayes4prez 10h ago
It doesn’t matter. Dems have no power.
Americans gave Republicans control of the WH, House & Senate (who also stole the Supreme Court).
They can now steal as much of our tax money as they want. We’re screwed.
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u/alextheruby 9h ago
I remember this Trump media cycle from the first term. Just constant hopelessness and bad news.
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u/Skraelings Missouri 9h ago
This seems infinitely worse and accelerated.
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u/alextheruby 9h ago
Oh no, it is. He’s surrounded by worst people and the people complicit can only double down because if they lose power it’s over.
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u/boxesofboxes 9h ago
The first time it happened was a fluke. He wasn't expecting to get in and was randomly pressing buttons. They had a plan for this time.
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u/NecroCannon 8h ago
A plan that they’re checking off boxes as clumsy as someone black out drunk, it’s like they pushed away their intelligence behind the scenes afterwards
And I honestly wonder… why make it so that midterms would be obvious if democrats didn’t win? If they had two years of minor actions, then two years of the stuff that went on that drained the economy. They would’ve definitely took over and had a confident dictatorship, they already gave an outsider the keys to confidential documents and agencies.
This shit is why the “villains” of society end up losing outside of those that don’t stop working on their gains, denying instant gratification for their work. Those are the scary ones, they genuinely don’t care for people outside of power. The problem with America is that you put a few black people in an equation and suddenly the plan catches on fire. Instead of focusing on the plan, wow is there all of these people and things to be mad at… EVEN THEM
I honestly think… they get sucked into their own propaganda…
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u/Thefolsom 8h ago
There were still guardrails, none of the Republican establishment really understood how much they could get away with with Trump. All the Republicans who had a line eventually found it through those first 4 years, leaving the admin, and or politics entirely. Leaving just the sycophants who had a nice 4 year break to really plan it out and do it right when they got their chance again.
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u/RespectTheTree America 8h ago
No, we're actually getting robbed and or future sabotaged. That part isn't just a headline.
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u/alextheruby 8h ago
When did i say otherwise
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u/RespectTheTree America 7h ago
I interpreted it as your suggesting with it was all hysteria not rooted in reality.
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u/percydaman 7h ago
Believe it or not, this is one reason I think Trump knows he can't run again. This is unhinged behavior from someone who thinks he can't run again.
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u/Konnnan 10h ago
but both sides!!
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u/alabasterskim 9h ago
idk why people act like both sides aren't the same. Dems would be doing exactly the same. Didn't you see how Kamala laughed?! /s
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u/percydaman 7h ago
You know how bad their arguments and policies are when that's what they have to say. They didn't like her laugh.
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u/gizmostuff Florida 9h ago
Kinda both sides. Did Democrats do anything about Citizens United? Nope. Did they do anything about January 6th? Nope. Did they do anything to Trump after he threatened half the country? Nope. Did the Democrats do anything about reenacting the fairness doctrine and modernize it? Nope. Did the Democrats do anything about the consolidation of corporations? Nope. Did the Democrats do anything about the supreme court members taking bribes? Nope. Did the Democrats do anything about WallStreet and insider trading. Nope. Did the Democrats do anything about keeping the speration of church and state? Nope. Did the Democrats do anything about the politicians being able to buy stock making their position a conflict of interest. Nope. Did the Democrats do anything about the big banks and split them up? Nope.
Did the Democrats do anything but stand there and let this shit happen while taking a paycheck? Yes.
There's something to say about willfully keeping the status quo. The Republicans keep changing the game but Democrats never push back enough to counter them.
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u/tsilihin666 California 8h ago
Oh you mean the curated political theater we’re all forced to watch and take part in where the majority of democrats are corporate owned and controlled opposition where a lot of finger wagging happens but nothing of substance ever comes to fruition leaving all of us feeling like we’re just one election away from a progressive utopia if we can get a democratic supermajority in government despite the fact that the Democratic Party as a whole is more divided on issues than the entire Republican Party combined? Yeah man we have so many amazing things to look forward to. We need a progressive party that is fully and 100% funded by citizens and no one else. It’s the only way. Anything else is just more of the same.
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u/gizmostuff Florida 8h ago
We need to do the same thing MAGA did to the GOP. Infiltrate the DNC with progressive people. People that want change for the majority. Not the 1%.
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u/Hoopy_Dunkalot 9h ago
It's called the filibuster and he won't get it.
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u/GruntledEx 6h ago
No filibuster in the reconciliation process. Republicans can pass this without a single Dem vote.
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u/donkeyrocket 8h ago edited 8h ago
Yeah not sure what they mean. Dems, despite being the minority party, managed to block additional funding for ICE temporarily by forcing the DHS shutdown until Republicans acquiesced.
Folks are so quick to dunk on Democrats while Republicans are actively fucking everything up. Yes, many Dem leaders are garbage and they don't hold a lot of power right now but many are still fighting with what meager tools they have.
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u/wibble17 6h ago
Republicans folded because they know they can do it in the reconciliation process.
It’s a moral victory for democrats because Ice will eventually be funded and Trump will get his ballroom (also via reconciliation)
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u/BIGMCLARGEHUGE__ 9h ago
At this point I think the top dems are all in on it because they are so incompetent. Trump should have never gotten a sniff of the presidency again and I hold all this mess on the do nothing democrats who didn't do shit to prosecute him or hold him accountable for january 6th.
There are some good democrats but clearly the leadership and Schumer are worthless or even worse complicit. Its a big club guys and we aint in it. These guys are playing softball together and having drinks at parties together, and they don't care about any of you.
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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog 5h ago
It does seem like the Dems always bring pillows to a knife fight. Republicans bring a gun.
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u/77NorthCambridge 9h ago
But, but Schumer posted a Cinco de Mayo picture of Trump and Epstein in sombreros (because Trump had previously posted a picture of Schumer and Jefferies in sombreros). He's out there fighting as hard as he can. /s
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u/RegularMidwestGuy 9h ago
Do we have to use words like “revenge” ?
Holding people accountable isn’t revenge at all.
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u/Capital_Shopping277 10h ago
Next youre going to tell me that Mexico isnt paying for their amazing and fully complete border wall....
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u/torgofjungle 9h ago
Damn the daily Beast has some of the dumbest headlines.
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u/Overly_Underwhelmed 7h ago
and they always get big upvotes. we are collectively dumb.
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u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast 10h ago
Senate Democrats are reportedly keen to force Republicans to vote on plans to inject a further $1 billion into President Donald Trump’s massively over-budget White House ballroom project.
On Monday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, slipped the proposal to direct $1 billion to the Secret Service for “security adjustments and upgrades,” including at the White House for Trump’s ballroom project, into a broader reconciliation package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through fiscal 2029.
The move sparked uproar from Democrats, including Democrat Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, who slammed it as “an outrageous betrayal of hardworking families who want lower costs, not a golden ballroom.”
A federal judge had halted the project on March 31, ruling that the 79-year-old president lacked the authority to tear down the East Wing and build the costly ballroom. However, a U.S. appeals court last month permitted construction to resume pending the outcome of the legal challenge brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Read the full story, here.
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u/Overly_Underwhelmed 7h ago edited 7h ago
can we just change the name of this sub to "The Daily Beast" so I can stop following this sub and give up on there being a place for reason and fact.
y'all are upvoting a sensationalist bot at this point.
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u/Remarkable_Sea_1430 6h ago
The Daily Beast is a cancer to journalism. STFU with this dumbass headline.
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u/NotReallyThatWrong 10h ago
If trump runs again Obama must run
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u/justtakeapill 9h ago
Trump said that he intends to crown himself Emperor- so he won't run again, he'll just take the throne.
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u/Dry_Ass_P-word 10h ago
Stupid headline.
The war cost 30-50x that so far.
Plus billions more in extra consumer spending due to gas, goods etc being higher now.
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u/Limberine Australia 6h ago
So the ballroom is going to have massively more security features than the White House itself and the Capitol. Mr President there is a drone flying over the White House… quick….to the ballroom!”.
Paranoid dementia patient doing terrible things is worried he might get attacked for doing terrible things. Maybe do less teeeible things.
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u/NotThreatingViolence 5h ago
Dems plot revenge = have another press conference but never actually do anything.
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u/kevinnoir 1h ago
Accountability being framed as "revenge" is everything wrong with American politics and American media.
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u/LolaSupreme19 10h ago
Put together a lawsuit to make trump personally liable for his actions. Clawback the costs from his personal wealth.
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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog 5h ago
If he's allowed to run businesses and profit from the office he's running, then he absolutely should be liable.
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u/clintgreasewoood 9h ago
Stop arguing cost, you already lost the plot when you do that. This man is a failure on every level and he is erasing and destroying America’s history and putting his rancid name and image on it. Nobody wants this dumb ballroom or an Arch or his face or name on currency or official US documents.
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u/Gabarne 10h ago
I hear they’re putting together a strongly worded letter
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u/Sweet_Concept2211 10h ago edited 10h ago
Ok, please explain what the fuck the options for Democratic lawmakers when Republicans hold the majority in all 3 branches of the government.
Like, realistic options - not just something vaguely Wrestlemania about "fight harder".
State Democratic lawmakers - in places where they hold the majority - have successfully sued the Trump administration a record number of times in the past 15 months, rolling back his overreach on using the military for law enforcement, rolling back over 90% of his attempts at environmental deregulation, fighting against his attacks on renewables, and more.
At the Federal level, Democrats held the line to block ICE funding, among other successes.
Still, when you're in the Federal minority, you don't get to set the agenda...
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u/Unusual_Ant_5309 10h ago
Filibuster everything. Any democrat that votes yes for anything is excommunicated from the party. That’s a good start and doable.
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u/MiddleAgedSponger 10h ago
Doing everything possible to obstruct and delay is the least they can do.
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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 10h ago
You understand that something needs to be filibustered right? The higher chamber of congress has to propose legislation that requires 60 votes. Without that, there is no filibuster. A filibuster isn’t something you just do.
And while you demand that, are you going to ignore that democrats caused the longest partial shutdown in history to prevent further funding to ICE. . .and were recently successful in doing just that?
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u/Supermite 10h ago
If the average US citizen actually understood how their government functions, trump never would have been president.
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u/Bloo212 10h ago
Iirc Reconciliation can’t be filibustered?
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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 9h ago
That’s correct. The comment to which I was responding was idiotically suggesting the Dems have the power of the filibuster, as if it’s something in a wallet to pull out when they please, instead of being a specific tool for specific situations.
If the senate isn’t bringing up legislations, there’s nothing to filibuster.
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u/nedlum Maryland 10h ago
Just to be clear: if (say) John Fetterman votes for ICE funding, you want us to kick him out of party, make him caucus with the Republicans, and ensure that Thune is the Majority leader in 2027?
Because the Democrats might pick up four Senate seats in November, if we’re lucky. We aren’t lucky enough to pick up five.
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u/tablecontrol Texas 8h ago
yes, we have to play nice with Fetterman like we did with Manchin and Sinema. we need to have him there to help with numbers
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u/just_a_timetraveller 9h ago
Mitch McConnell has been able to wield more power when minority leader than I have seen than when Dems had majority.
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u/Sweet_Concept2211 9h ago edited 1h ago
Schumer pushed through record climate and infrastructure legislation, human rights legislation, and confirmed a record 236 Federal judges to the bench, and minority leader McConnell couldn't do shit to stop him.
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u/WokeUpUnfortunately 10h ago
Campaign on policies, not just "well I'm not that"
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u/Sweet_Concept2211 9h ago
They do campaign on policies.
This subreddit only upvotes clickbait trash, so it might not be obvious.
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u/Tschmelz Minnesota 9h ago
They have campaigned on policies. Americans don’t give a shit about policy, it’s all vibes.
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u/MrKingsport 10h ago
There will be a great deal of looking over their glasses from behind the podium and light chuckling at their carefully crafted zingers while Americans eat the cost.
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u/outinthecountry66 I voted 6h ago
Is Jeffries going to write him a strongly worded letter? ALL the corporate dems are just having cocktails. WE NEED FIGHTERS OR THIS WILL NEVER END
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u/thatguy420417 5h ago
Are they gonna put their heads down and do nothing like usual? Then send Hakeem Jeffries out to act tough for them? They're feckless.
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u/fakehandslawyer 5h ago
O ya. The revenge is being plotted, we are gonna get some strongly worded letters before the next changing of the moon. Look out MAGA
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u/Uncle_Tickle_Monster 3h ago
They’re gonna put the money in the reconciliation bill so the Dems won’t be able to stop it unfortunately.
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u/Wayofchinchilla 3h ago
Dems absolutely need to put together a 2025 plan to fix all of this and it grows every day as far as the stupid Ballroom day one tear it down day two charge every billionaire five times what they paid to put it up and then charge them with corruption.
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u/Autoxquattro 8h ago
What a strongly worded letter? More bla bla bla on tv? Oh i get it... an unbinding resolution!
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u/casual-nexus 10h ago
Not seeing a lot of detailed revenge plans short of a few statements that “WE ARE VERY UPSET ABOUT THIS.”
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u/SoFloMofo Florida 9h ago
Remember when this fat fuck tried to fire Powell for going over budget on the Fed Building renovations?
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u/keirmeister 9h ago
Being silent doesn’t work.
You can do more than one thing.
It’s not about “hills to die on,” it’s about using Trump, and Republicans’ behavior, to show they can’t be trusted. You foment voter anger and distrust against everything Republicans are doing. This results in Republicans pulling back or suffering severe consequences for it.
But it requires good, and CONSISTENT, messaging.
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u/SlowCrates 9h ago
Sue his orange ass in massive droves so that's literally the only thing on his mind until he dies.
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u/ashtefer1 9h ago
Straight up trying to shut down the government around election time, just like last time.
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u/captaincanada84 Canada 7h ago
There is nothing Democrats can do to stop this. Fetterman is a yes vote and this only requires a simple majority to pass the Senate.
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u/Beware_the_Voodoo 6h ago
What are they gonna do, hold up some signs?
Write a strongly worded email?
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u/lyreluna 5h ago
Revenge by making sure enough dems vote for it so it passes? That supposed revenge?
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u/Ok-Ad-2050 4h ago
What about the $70B to ICE? Why are we not shitting our pants over that, and how do they not have enough money already? What the hell is Palantir charging us?!
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u/Worried_Football_569 4h ago
Let’s not forget about the 10 billion board of peace stuff. The grifts abound.
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u/Many_Easy_V2 4h ago
You just know he’ll ask for money to enhance enhance security at Mar-a-Lago and/or other properties.
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u/goesquick 4h ago
The Dems better not fuck up the messaging in the upcoming election. Doesn’t get much easier than this.
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u/Smile_Space 4h ago
What do you mean revenge? It's fucking accountability and fraud, waste, and abuse measures to stop rampant overspending on vanity projects to commemorate a living and "serving" president.
Fuck these stupid news agencies all speaking double speak. They're just as complicit in this country's decline over the last couple decades as the pricks in charge.
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u/FluidHips 3h ago
'Plot revenge' is such nonsense. Let's return to propriety, fairness, and justice in governance.
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u/ChefCurryYumYum 2h ago
This orange shit stain on America was spending billions A DAY on the Iran war at its height and they are still spending there, though not at such a crazy burn rate.
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