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  • The fact that Trump is saying out loud that voter ID laws would “allow them to win all future elections” should give you a clue as to why not.

    Voter ID laws, at face value, are not the problem. The problem is that Republicans have made getting a valid ID damn near difficult in typically blue areas.

    Not only that, there are simply no cases of voter fraud in the US where a voter ID would have stopped said fraud. Voter Fraud, as it happens, is so rare that the only really effective way to commit fraud is by ballot stuffing which, surprise surprise, Republicans have consistently been caught doing.
















  • Not that I don’t disagree with you but there is a political tactic that I believe was started with FDR or Kennedy…I can’t remember exactly.

    Basically, you are correct that Congress makes the law saying how the money is to be spent. However the executive branch decides when to release those funds. The president decided to wait until the last possible moment to release those funds, basically forcing departments to spend the money as quickly as possible before the end of the Fiscal Year since the funds are use it or lose it. So essentially the money is allocated and then clawed back.

    The problem is that Trump and DOGE are doing this to raise money for tax breaks for the rich and for political grandstanding. And to accomplish Project 2025.