Lesley Carhart 
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The picture is mints my daughter created for the 2024 4H fair.
This probably just saved a lot of jobs. Now we need to protect Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security among many other smaller things.
Ask people to take the day off.
NonilexThe American Bar Association issued a statement on recent #Trump admin "attacks on constitutionally protected #BirthrightCitizenship, the dismantling of #USAID & the attempts to criminalize" #diversity initiatives as "wide-scale affronts to the rule of #law itself."
#TrumpCoup #democracy #autocracy #authoritarianism #SeparationOfPowers
Full #ABA statement:
Now that Philly has won the hunger games it is exempt from defunding by the government!
My employer receives a large amount in NIH grants annually. While they must have a buffer for 1-2 year budget impacts, I imagine the NIH cuts will close about 700,000 square feet of research space, basically 12 floors that can fit a football field on each floor.
That’s a lot of layoffs. A lot of rare disease research will be gone. That’s what will really hurt. That will probably not come back. Some of the equipment is custom made and manufactured nowhere else.
“I want great education, clean water, clean air, great health care. But I don’t believe a massive bureaucracy is the way to achieve those things,”
It’s all over the wire like here:
But the speaker is advocating cuts to what directly funds the great education and healthcare he wants.
Now, faced with their losing jobs, scientists and professors will look to work overseas instead of in the US. It will gut US competitiveness.
Are Americans paying attention to Musk and Trump's DOGE? Here's what people in Iowa had to say
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst has hailed Elon Musk and the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency. So has Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. Their constituents are following the cost-cutting effort closely. Unlike their top elected officials, several of the constituents are expressing concerns. Some question the delivery of government services or whether Musk has the necessary authority. Others back Musk, saying his action is needed given the risk of doing nothing to sharply curb federal spending.
Deficit owls are my favorite owl. They don’t fall for BS.
https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/you-know-the-deficit-hawks-now-meet-the-deficit-owls
