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The Trump administration is blaming Democrats for the likely government shutdown in internal federal agency communications as well as on at least one public website, in what experts say could be a violation of federal ethics laws.

A bright red banner and pop-up message that appeared Tuesday on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's website warns: "The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people."

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 58 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why isn't anyone talking about what the Democrats are fighting for?

"We will not support a partisan spending agreement that continues to rip away health care from the American people, period, full stop," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Thursday.\

A key focus for Democrats is an effort to use this upcoming government funding bill as an opportunity to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits set to expire at the end of the year. Those tax credits, which were signed into law by former President Joe Biden in 2022, expanded eligibility for the ACA and capped premiums.

Democrats also say they want Republicans to reverse course on cuts to Medicaid that came as part of the massive "One Big Beautiful Bill" that Republicans enacted without any Democratic support in June.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 43 points 4 days ago

This is how the control of information flow, via oligarchs, works.

[–] Devanismyname@lazysoci.al 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You guys are in the fight of your lives down there. Trump and his allies have crossed some serious lines. So many laws broken in such a public way. They arent just gonna concede defeat next year or in 2028. They are gonna use violence to stay in power because if they dont, they are going to go to jail or be tried for treason. This isn't going to end with the mid terms

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Its fucking nuts and its crazy so many are not at least adding their bodies to protest and even crazier that the right has not woke up and pulled away from this. We are literally the out of control vehicle heading for a cliff that is on fire and covered in explosives and some folks are still resisting those trying to pull the steering wheel to change course.

[–] Devanismyname@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 hours ago

Most people arent aware of it or at least not as aware. They do their 9-5, crack a beer, and turn on fox news. They arent gonna say this stuff on main stream media. And pod casters on the right are either in denial or part of the problem so they arent gonna say it plainly either. That leaves left wing pod casters telling the the truth which isn't gonna have a lot of viewers. The us is in a fight they don't even know about, imo

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 14 points 4 days ago

um. so everyone realizes trump put his name on a federal site to get affordable drugs yeah?