If you're not actually trying to kill healthcare and preschool for poor kids to fund your tax cuts, this is not a great look to start with

Anyone who doesn't notice deeply disturbing echoes of history right now is either not paying attention or in denial.

This is the problem. I've been calling budget experts asking what programs this funding-pause language applies to - all discretionary? Medicaid/CHIP?
But that requires deciphering memo as if it were written by serious people who actually thought about and understand the law

Americans are watching an inflation bait-and-switch

If you had any doubt whether this OMB funding freeze was illegal, this should remove it.
Medicaid is mandatory spending.

free market something something

Maybe we should abolish Congress. They have already abdicated their constitutional duties over power of the purse & "regulat[ing] Commerce with foreign Nations" (tariffs)
If lawmakers are not going to perform their most basic constitutional functions, what are we paying them for?

Rep Tom Cole (R-OK), chair of House approps committee, says appropriations directed by Congress are “not a law”

This is an insult to people with autism, some of whom I'm related to. The nation's largest autism organization was literally founded in my grandparents' living room.
Don't scapegoat autism for clear antisemitic dog whistles.

Let me help with context. Musk has also:
*declared Jews are pushing "hatred of white people"
*promoted the Great Replacement conspiracy theory (that globalist Jews are conspiring to fill America with brown people to replace the white majority)
*told Germany's Nazi-sympathizing & Holocaust-diminishing AfD party, two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day, that Germany has "frankly too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move beyond that." (This was actually the main subject of our panel.)
To my knowledge Scott has done none of those things. So it should be even less problematic for someone like him to replicate this enthusiastic gesture, if on its own it is truly innocuous.

I didn’t ask Scott to "do a Nazi salute." I asked Scott to do whatever Elon Musk’s gesture was, since Scott said it was a mere greeting of enthusiasm for the crowd.
If that's the case, he should have had no problem enthusiastically greeting our live TV audience that way too

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) says poor kids should get jobs instead of receiving free school lunches.
The school lunch program serves grades preK-12, meaning it feeds children as young as 4.

And Trump’s actions aren’t exactly helping. E.g., admin blocked publication of CDC's morbidity/mortality reports, which had been published weekly since 1952. The first issue he blocked was scheduled to include 2 new studies on bird flu transmission

Meanwhile, egg prices:

How many more MAGA-ites will go on TV to defend this?

Even self-proclaimed pro-Hitlerite Nick Fuentes said Bannon’s sieg heil was “getting a little uncomfortable" and "a little excessive" even for him

Leader of France's far-right party -- which was founded by neofascists and Holocaust deniers -- pulls out of CPAC because Bannon's gesture was too overtly pro-Nazi

With multiple tariffs looming, farmers who support Trump grow nervous

Every Trump aide has different, contradictory talking points about purpose of these tariffs.
Are they a negotiating tactic?
Actually permanent, because we need them to raise revenue/boost US manufacturing?
Are they designed to return us to 1790s lifestyles & living standards?

Source connected to CDC tells me: “The day of the massacre staff in the [director’s office] spent most of the day getting the staff who feed the animals in the labs reinstated. They had all been fired.”

GOP has eliminated laws of math in order to pass Trump tax cuts
Tax bill will cost whatever they says it costs. Doesn't matter what CBO says or how Senate parl rules
“In the end the Party would announce that 2 & 2 made 5, and you would have to believe it”

High Protective Tariffs Have Been Short-Lived in American History