“Violates” priorities??

ICE, Palantir, Trumpcoin…

Called a pocket recission because it goes in his pocket would be my guess.

No one can expect the trump administration to understand the value of soft power. They’ll siphon the money away to corporations providing services… who’ll no doubt be ‘grateful.’

If he is canceling spending anywhere it obviously has not been spent so it just should mean that we do not need to borrow more but since our debt is increasing, I would say this is all manipulation of monies. But no actual savings.

LMAO,He is the fraud and waste

If I only did things that were in my "best interest" I would be considered a selfish, uncouth monster.

In the pockets of the fascists.

Yes, because why on earth would we want to support inclusive democracy in South Africa? (Or any other nation on the continent, for that matter…) 🙄🙄🙄 Marco is such a spineless little lickspittle!

We don't live in his America.....he lives in our America....a place where the president works for the people.

They’re doing it again. Just like DOGE. Marco Ruuuubio 🕺 lists .13% of the 5B. Where is the whole 5B canceled? Line item; still owed. DOGE took the entire amount regardless if 90% had been paid out already and booked it as “a savings”. Turns out DOGE “saved” 60M but spent 2-300M a month.

That’s what I want to know—where is all this money going? To pay for the new ballroom? All the gold crap in the Oval Office? Golf trips? Vance’s 7 vacations(so far…)?

You can save tons of money of your stop all safety nets. The question is, at what cost? tRump doesn’t care!

The ever expanding deployment of gold-leaf polyurethane Liberace inspired wall decor barf which is now spilling out to other rooms:

I'm sure they'll find a way to get it to Cheetolini's "Presidential Library" slush fund.

Where are all these charitable funds going? Well, we know that the Trump family pattern is to cheat charities. And where are all the profits from imposing tariffs going? Billions of dollars vanishing.

Someone explain the Impoundment Act to me bc I can’t look it up right now. How is cancelling foreign aid « impoundment « ?

Congressional Branch has the power of the purse. Trump and his Executive are stealing the purse. When Congress says give X dollars to Y the Exec doesn’t have the power to take that money. Steal it. Trump is stealing it and violating our Constitution. Nixon was the last prez to do this, I believe

But Congress still has to approve the rescission

Tried to do the math. If Congress can’t get the votes to block Trumps impoundments Trump could still impound anything he wants until December 12th starting today. Congress goes on Christmas Break December 18. Anything done more than 6 days from now would be impounded until at least January 3rd.

Not approve it. They have to block it. Block Trump from stealing the purse. With the recent Supreme Court rulings we may be in uncharted territory on how Trump is going to use impoundments? It’s not going to be traditional and it’ll go to the Supreme Court quickly.

USians kicked the can down the road by allowing the Republicans and Ford to negotiate Nixon’s resignation. Watergate was just the end of decades of Nixon terrorizing the Constitution. As VP and as Prez. Trump hasn’t even gone as far as Nixon yet. But it’s coming. We’re 8 months in.

Yes - I meant that the Impoundment Act requires Congress to approve ( or not) a rescission

Yes. With just a simple majority. Nixon Republicans set it up to be filibuster proof as well. It’s a simple up or down vote. No amendments, no long floor speeches. I don’t believe there is any way to stop Johnson and Thune from ramming through anything they want.

Exactly. Did he convert it to shares in his crypto grift?

Golf🇨🇦🤦

Who’s filing the lawsuit?

Probably in their pockets.

Here’s my guess.

The total being canceled is $5 billion. The examples they list total about $5 million so the overwhelming majority of the aid was going to things not listed here. They list the small items they can label as "woke" knowing that the public doesn't like to do math.

Yep. They pick out the transgenic mice. That gets MAGA fired up. And if you’ve traveled much in South Africa (outside tourist zones) a few million spent to stop the killings of 🏳️‍⚧️ is money very well spent.

Repression.

He ate it. That's not a fat joke. He ate the money with the heritage foundation. Follow that money and it would just "poof" be gone.

Into the pockets of the oligarchs and the Trump family, no doubt.

When Trump says "Americans" he's not talking about all of us, he's talking about his rich white friends.

That's an excellent question.

Look in the bathroom at Mar-A-Lago

Palantir. Defense contractors. ICE force expansion.

His pocket

Trump's favorite things are committing fraud, waste, and abuse. WTF Marco? Long ago a young Marco Rubio had promise but then he came under Trump's shadow and is now Trump's full blown Renfield.