What happened here is that the party who hates big government passed a massive bill to give corporate tax breaks to the 1%. Increasing the FEDERAL deficit by $3.4 trillion. But now that Trump is making the Federal Government into his own empire, he thinks - what did I get out of that deal? /2
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Exactly 💯
Worse yet he's preparing to have all the friendly to him red states send their National Guard to blue cities and instigate a Civil War
So, to save his own ego, he begins to exert financial pressure on private companies. Now he WANTS to extract profit. Tariffs. Bribes. 10% stake. Only did you see the sleight of hand? If they call it "equity" and "investment" it won't sound like "taxes." He's privatizing the federal government. /3
Sounds like Russia
This is the long-term goal of the neoreactionary movement. Privatizing the federal government and running it like a corporation. With a CEO "monarch" at the helm. /4
Yep.... the Peter Thiel Dark Enlightenment solution
...and at the same time taking over parts of private enterprises and telling them how to run themselves... Stamocap, pure and simple.
When did Congress appropriate this spending? I must have missed that
He's doing it under the chips act, which was passed already. I don't know if there will be any blowback from congress - or lawsuits that claim he's misusing these funds in ways they weren't approved for.
Not until 2027 at the earliest
The plan all along with him getting a cut of the profits