Senator Susan Collins of Maine denounced the move as unlawful, saying that any attempt to rescind funds already appropriated by Congress without its approval is a direct violation of the law.
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A little late but waiting for the concern followed by the consent. What a loser lifer she is. A political dinosaur that no longer cares about her oath & duty.
aug 29, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
But what will they actively do to change this-nothing so far
aug 30, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
Oh dear, Susan Collins is concerned. I’m sure that will change Trump’s mind. 🙄
aug 30, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Guess Trump didn’t learn his lesson after all Senator Susan Collins. Let’s be clear about why this is authoritarian. Congress is the branch of government elected by the American people to decide how our money is spent.
aug 29, 2025, 5:33 pm • 527 63 • view
We may not always like every decision they make, but those choices reflect the will of the people through their representatives. When a president bypasses Congress and unilaterally cancels funding they’ve already approved, it’s not just reckless it’s illegal.
aug 29, 2025, 5:33 pm • 490 56 • view
The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was written specifically to stop presidents from doing exactly this after Nixon tried the same power grab. Even Republicans like Collins admit this violates the law.
aug 29, 2025, 5:33 pm • 469 72 • view
If one man can erase billions in spending with the stroke of a pen (overruling the representatives of 330 million Americans) that’s not democracy. That’s authoritarianism.
aug 29, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1,056 162 • view
And if we let it slide, it sets the precedent that Congress doesn’t matter, the people don’t matter, and the only will that counts is the president’s.
aug 29, 2025, 5:33 pm • 869 106 • view
But it’s not that WE let it slide, it’s that Republicans in Congress let it slide. Every voter who has one or more GOP members of Congress should be calling them. Capitol switchboard 202-224-3121 ask for your Rep or Senator by name. If voicemail is full, send an email.
aug 30, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Isn't it also the fault of democrats for not getting out and voting last November?
aug 30, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Imagine eradicating the IRS and congressional representation while still taxing the population. That's where trumps terrible tariffs come in to play. A population of chattel for the Executive to rule over. There will be no more need for representation. Or voting for that matter.
aug 30, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 2 • view
It's less a show of how authoritarian he is and more a show of how dyslexic and incompetent he is. Veto that shit when it first gets passed.
aug 29, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Congress doesn't matter??? Im not even sure they're alive...don't give me this vacation stuff.. When democracy is ending before your eyes...do u take a vacation? When there is a mass casualty event, do you think hospital staff don't answer our phones and go back to work..WTF
aug 29, 2025, 9:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Well then, we know the outcome.....as if Congress (Republicans and God knows who else) would change their tune at this point..& they don't listen to all the people....their town halls are laughable...so bizarre. They hate & laugh at Dems & guess you would call indep whatever that is. Very creepy
aug 30, 2025, 2:36 am • 2 1 • view
Congress will let it slide. It's pro fascism and authoritarianism so the right wing (by definition, fascist) will love it and the establishment democrats will let it slide because it makes them look good and they don't even have to be better people, they can just compare to Trump and his regime.
aug 29, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Even if Congress doesn't let it slide, the interruption in funds while it's litigated will do as much if not more damage to international relationships. We have now been proven, in so many ways,.am unreliable and inconsistent partner.
aug 29, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 1 • view
And the tariffs mean we are being taxed without representation
aug 29, 2025, 6:08 pm • 4 1 • view
🎶 (cue the Beatles) 🎶 “You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it's evolution Well, you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out…🎶 I think we are there
aug 29, 2025, 6:35 pm • 3 0 • view
The United States of Trump
aug 29, 2025, 6:25 pm • 3 0 • view
don’t dignify him. united states of 🍊💩 or just 💩 will do
aug 29, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
The a disgusting but accurate depiction of what he sees in his feeble little narcissistic brain.
aug 29, 2025, 6:32 pm • 3 0 • view
The maga gop Congress has given up their power. Our system was set up assuming that each branch would defend their power -- so Congress dismantled the effectiveness of 3 separate but = branches by giving their power to the Executive. And the head of the Judicial branch, the scotus, has...
aug 30, 2025, 4:22 am • 3 0 • view
...used their power to also give the Executive more & more power. (Not true of lower Courts, but scotus keeps overruling constitutionally sound rulings by lower courts.) We're in trouble with an unstoppable Executive who is a demagogue w/ low morals, little intelligence & dictatorial aspirations.
aug 30, 2025, 4:22 am • 1 0 • view
I don’t call him a president any longer. He’s a dictator wannabe a little man with very thin skin.
aug 30, 2025, 4:08 am • 3 0 • view
He's done this before, multiple times? I think one instance is a road project in UT (?) that President Biden approved.
aug 29, 2025, 5:57 pm • 1 0 • view
OH NO! SUSAN COLLINS DENOUNCED IT!!?? That’ll show ‘em!
aug 29, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Seeing how well the protests are slowing him down....
aug 29, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
And the Judiciary doesn’t matter. In fact, the checks and balances are all gone and America has a personalist autocrat.
aug 29, 2025, 5:55 pm • 11 1 • view
aug 29, 2025, 6:04 pm • 5 1 • view
Sky gods were made to be castrated.
aug 29, 2025, 6:08 pm • 5 0 • view
Paging Joni!
aug 29, 2025, 6:24 pm • 2 0 • view
You know, ladies, you can do this whenever you want. You don't have to wait for a long haired, chthonic deity from the East to inspire you.
aug 29, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 0 • view
There has never been a Speaker as impotent as Johnson. Partisan, yes. Borderline stupid, yes. But never has there been one that has fully cede Congress’s constitutional powers. It’s insulting to all, conservatives and progressives alike.
aug 29, 2025, 6:00 pm • 9 0 • view
That has already been determined by the supreme court - the final arbiter of all law - that Trump is basically a king. If you don't like that, you need to rise up, 1789 style, and overthrow this evil republican regime that has conquered America. You have already lost. Fight back or accept it.
aug 29, 2025, 11:42 pm • 2 0 • view
The question is, will Congress let it slide?
aug 29, 2025, 5:43 pm • 113 6 • view
Yes. Most will. The old school politicians on both sides are too comfortable getting their side money.
aug 29, 2025, 7:24 pm • 6 0 • view
There is no Congress any more
aug 29, 2025, 5:54 pm • 7 0 • view
Sure feels like that.
aug 29, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view
The GOP caucus has already decided to abandon their oaths and their power as a co-equal branch. They are all on board with installing a one party totalitarian theocracy.
aug 29, 2025, 6:03 pm • 5 0 • view
Susan Collins will furrow her brow, clutch her pearls, voice her concern, and then vote to let trump do whatever he wants.
aug 29, 2025, 5:55 pm • 8 0 • view
The GOPers in Congress will.
aug 29, 2025, 5:45 pm • 84 2 • view
In 2021, Dem leaders held the powers of the Executive Branch and Congress, and they chose to uphold the leaders who attempted the coup. ALL leaders, including former, normalized leader treason, & there were NO American protests. Biden could have led the way to expel & jail traitor leaders.
aug 29, 2025, 7:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I would like to think otherwise. Now we have GOP members of congress being directly told that the power they thought they held doesn't matter. When the entire party is after power and control, then one is taking that power from others, that gives them cause to splinter and push back.
aug 30, 2025, 1:22 am • 0 0 • view
GOPers?!? Oh, you mean the nazis.
aug 29, 2025, 6:21 pm • 69 2 • view
christofascists.
aug 30, 2025, 2:06 am • 3 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 12:12 am • 4 0 • view
And the Supreme Court will back him up.
aug 29, 2025, 6:19 pm • 3 0 • view
That's what I think.Im not sure how he corrupted the Supreme Court money,death threats,on on but he did.💩
aug 29, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
1) Congress is supposed to have the power of the purse and this is illegal. 2) Where are our tax dollars going? 3) Why is Congress not stopping it? Call your representatives in the House and Senate (202) 224-3121 #NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation #OurRepublic #NotHisDictatorship #WeThePeople
aug 29, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 6:54 pm • 2 1 • view
Add to that the Ballroom!
aug 30, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes indeed. This is how democracy dies. We won’t let it. I plan on becoming that pesky little fly that just keeps buzzing, but cannot be silenced. 😍👍🙏
sep 1, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
He is only able to do this because Congress is letting him. It is an illusion.
aug 29, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
If a Democrat breaks the law, other Democrats are among the first to denounce & repudiate the act! Party is one thing & breaking the law is another! This is where loyalty ends!
aug 29, 2025, 6:59 pm • 2 0 • view
And that 4.9 billion dollars is already in his pocket. Unfortunately, our allies should isolate the U.S. till he is gone along with all his ignorant cronies.
aug 29, 2025, 6:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Congressional appropriations are not necessarily "the will of the people" considering that highly gerrymandered states skew election results; however, it is still illegal for the President to overrule them.
aug 29, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
SHOULD. “…but those choices *should* reflect the will of the people…”
aug 29, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
He shouldn't have access to cancel funding. What budgetary systems can he actually manipulate? He can say whatever he wants. The mechanisms for flow of funding should be within Congressal control.
aug 30, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
Is she going to shake her finger and write another letter?
aug 29, 2025, 5:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Masterful distillation
aug 29, 2025, 5:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Oooohhh, Susan Colins is upset. What will she do?
aug 29, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Collins always denounces before she caves.
aug 29, 2025, 8:49 pm • 2 1 • view
All our senators & Congressman should be pushing back. If they don't, it is a good reason to not re-electing them!
aug 29, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
...adding that her statement is all she will do about that
aug 29, 2025, 5:29 pm • 16 0 • view
Susan Collins is now extremely concerned? Oh, the horrors!
aug 29, 2025, 5:32 pm • 7 0 • view
Collins will do nothing. She is an empty suit. The citizens of ME are are being represented by an overcooked wet noodle.
aug 29, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Collins has no credibility whatsoever.
aug 29, 2025, 5:28 pm • 9 0 • view
Oh Susan, are you clutching your pearls? This is on you...
aug 29, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
She sounds so.....concerned....
aug 29, 2025, 5:29 pm • 14 0 • view
I'm sure she is "very concerned". Everywhere she shows up here in Maine, people are yelling at her. It's great.
aug 29, 2025, 5:30 pm • 5 0 • view
she did, did she
aug 29, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sure she's Very Concerned.
aug 29, 2025, 5:31 pm • 1 0 • view
BUT SHE WONT VOTE TO HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE.
aug 29, 2025, 7:40 pm • 3 0 • view
“If he does it again, I will be very disappointed”. — Sen. Susan Collins
aug 30, 2025, 12:17 am • 1 0 • view
Susan Collins is an old, senile, weak, stupid, closet MAGGAT who stands there with that stupid smile in her face when people are booing her and telling her she sucks
aug 29, 2025, 7:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh, Collins just like Murkowski will clutch her pearls and fret but will vote however they are told by the Republican leadership.
aug 29, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank god we had a US senator denounce the actions of the law optional Trump regime as illegal. 'Cause we all know how concerned the Trump administration is about adhering to jurisprudence.
aug 29, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Question is: after her rare close-up encounter with angry constituents, will Susan Collins actually DO something besides fret publicly?
aug 29, 2025, 6:24 pm • 1 0 • view
She will make an almost stern speech.
aug 30, 2025, 4:36 am • 2 0 • view
Almost as scary as a strong letter from Schumer.
aug 30, 2025, 4:40 am • 1 0 • view
Uh oh. She sounds concerned. You know what that means! Yes, it means she will still support him.
aug 29, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
She said with a "furrowed brow". Then won't do anything about it.
aug 29, 2025, 5:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Ohh Susan Collin’s denounced it. How scary.
aug 30, 2025, 4:35 am • 0 0 • view
Susan Collins is a waste of air space. Of course she denounced it. She other 15mins of limelight, again. Cannot wait till the Oyster Farmer sends her packing.
aug 29, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Suzy will bark load and then kowtow likes always.
aug 29, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Do. Your. JOBS. @schumer.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov impeach or just haul his ass to jail - call our militia to do it he has committed enough crimes since taking over the Oval
aug 29, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel a Susan Collins sternly-written letter coming on.
aug 29, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Then she will just step aside and let it happen.
aug 29, 2025, 6:56 pm • 1 0 • view
If the Democrats retake the House they should (1) cancel the jet, (2) cancel the ballroom, (3) start the impeachment. Then on day 2...
aug 29, 2025, 6:03 pm • 3 0 • view
They could impeach with a simple majority in the House, but it takes a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict. Without it, he'll just be acquitted, which he'd declare his complete vindication and proof of a witch-hunt by lying, flailing Democrats.
aug 29, 2025, 11:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Most likely. He would nevertheless be forced to defend his many unconstitutional and illegal acts in a public forum.
sep 1, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Knowing he'll be acquitted, he could be as arrogant and assertive as he'd like. I'd imagine he'd say he's working to make America great and doing what he's entitled to as president. Many would buy that, regardless of how false it would be to anyone familiar with the law.
sep 1, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh no, Susan’s about to go full milquetoast. (Unless it’s Murkowski’s turn to go full milquetoast.)
aug 29, 2025, 5:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Susan Collins has no spine
aug 29, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view
She had the chance to impeach him. She better be ready to back up her words this time.
aug 29, 2025, 8:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Concern? From Susan Collins? "Hey guys, throw this on the pile with the rest of 'em."
aug 29, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Okay, your move, Collins and the rest of the Senate. What are you going to do about it?
aug 29, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
“Don’t make me furrow my brow at you.” - Susan Collins.
aug 29, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
What’s she gonna do? Be very concerned?
aug 29, 2025, 6:29 pm • 5 0 • view
Susan Collins cant do anything about it
aug 29, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
And she will do nothing about it.
aug 29, 2025, 5:28 pm • 8 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh really Susan! What are you going to do about it. Remember when you said he learned his lesson. You and your pitiful sycophantic party are the reason we are in this nightmare. Either impeach him or resign because you are useless.
aug 30, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, Collins says LOTS of shit, that she NEVER backs up with action. 🤮
aug 29, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
aug 29, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view