Only idiots could look at a poll with great results and
claim that it meant someone shouldn't run. When that someone is Kamala
Harris, you know we're dealing with sexists and racists. Gerren Keith Gaynor (THE GRIO) reports:
The
poll conducted by POLITICO and UC Berkeley’s Citrin Center shows a
mixed reaction to a hypothetical Harris bid for California governor.
Individuals who were polled were asked to qualify their feelings about a
Harris run by selecting from a range of descriptive words, including
“joyful,” “mostly excited,” “indifferent,” “irritated,” “outraged,”
“hopeless,” or other. Respondents were allowed to select multiple
options.
The
survey polled two pools of voters: those registered to vote in
California and those considered “policy influencers.” The results
revealed two different takeaways about how California voters feel about a
potential Governor Harris.
Among registered
Democratic voters, Kamala Harris received overwhelmingly enthusiastic
responses. Thirty-three percent said they felt joyful about Harris’
possible run for California’s highest office, and another 41% said they
were “mostly excited.” Those who felt negatively about Harris jumping
into the race were in the single digits, and another quarter of
Democrats said they were indifferent about the prospect.
That's
it. That's the end of story. I live and vote in California and I
would gladly vote for Kamala Harris. Gladly. I'd be thrilled to do
so. So 74% of Democrats are for this? That's the end of the story.
I'm sick of the racists Socialists. Let them go off on their own, we
know we can't count on them. Kamala would carry California with that
74% alone.
I am so tired of the continued attacks on Kamala by the Gaza Freaks who, quite honestly, should be on their knees begging this country's forgiveness for putting Chump back in the White House. It's amazing to watch them justify what they did. And to blame Kamala. The entire country is suffering right now due to idiots and trash like Rashida Tlaib. They owe this country an apology. But they don't apologize and they don't learn. They just keep on attacking Kamala.
"The Snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Chump wrecks the economy and that includes
tourism, Chump's deportation policies are illegal and one man proves
that which is why Chump doesn't want him back in the US, they're going
after Head Start, and much more.
Last
week, Trump announced that Chinese import tariffs would clock 145%,
prompting Beijing to retaliate with a 125% tariff on American goods.
Though the POTUS temporarily paused trade levies for several other
countries for 90 days, claiming they are now on the negotiation table,
Republicans are concerned about the leading party’s reputation back
home.
But
Scylla waits on the other side. That’s the danger of overreaction – the
temptation to stretch legal remedies into political revenge, to let
fear drive institutions into excess. That’s what Trump is counting on.
He dares prosecutors to push too hard, courts to act too aggressively,
lawmakers to go too far. He wants the system to stumble into overreach,
to justify his claim that it was never about justice to begin with. His
strength lies in forcing the guardians of legality into a trap: act, and
look like tyrants. Don’t act, and look like cowards.
“And their concern is that the
White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some
even fear that this may not even be ideology,” he added. “A few have
quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”
Convicted Felon Donald Chump has wrecked he economy and the fallout continues. Yesterday, Ruth noted in "Chump could be a wet nurse" that the real number of
Republicans concerned about Chump's tariffs is probably much greater and
that people have a hard time admitting they made a mistake. And she
notes how elected Republicans are beginning to voice their concerns
which will break the ice and allow non-elected Republicans to get
truthful. Florence Muchai (CRYPTOPOLITAN) reports:
Republican
lawmakers are worried that President Donald Trump’s pause-and-play
tariff strategy could backfire politically and economically, potentially
jeopardizing the GOP’s prospects in the 2026 midterm elections.
Owing
to how tariffs hit both adversaries and allies, party leaders warn the
President that inflation, higher borrowing costs, suppressed consumer
expenditure, and market instability could undo hard-won electoral gains.
According to
data reported by Yahoo Finance, the 30-year Treasury yield, closely
linked to mortgage rates, saw its biggest one-week jump since 1982,
rising to 4.88%. The 10-year yield climbed to 4.59%, increasing
borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.
Conservative
Senator Thom Tillis, one to watch in the upcoming midterm cycle,
referenced the former President Ronald Reagan era in 1982 when
Republicans lost 26 seats in the House, likely caused by economic
concerns and rising interest rates.
“All the indicators would be ‘wrong track’ if we’re still having the same tariff discussions by February,” Tillis remarked.
Tillis
is asking the Trump administration to finalize favorable trade deals
within the next 10 months. But without concrete results, he said, the
GOP would face “political headwinds” similar to past electoral wipeouts
following tax hikes or trade disruptions.
Another
GOP leader, Senator Rand Paul, invoked the 1932 election when the
Republican authors of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Senators Reed Smoot
and Willis Hawley, lost their seats after their protectionist policies
shared the biggest part of the blame for deepening the Great Depression.
When
Democratic Party analyst James Carville says to let the GOP screw
things up all by themselves, he's basing it on historical models like
the above. History often repeats. But not always precisely and it's
rather lazy -- and a bit of a scaredy cat -- to talk people out of
taking action on the hope/dream/prayer that things will turn out exactly
as they did in the past. And it also puts aside/ignores all the other things he's doing -- all the other illegal things.
In a column for THE NEW YORK TIMES, Carville argues
that Chump's con may be coming to an end, "The problem is that smoke
and mirrors only work until you screw up so hard that no act of lunacy
can pull the American people's attention elsewhere. And boy, did the
president just screw up royally. In what will certainly be recorded as
one of the most ignorant acts of political leadership in American
history, the president of the United States has now willfully damaged
the global economy with his tariff chaos."
The
MAGA voters still hanging on to Chump are some who struggle with
admitting mistakes and others who are just idiots. Loved Reece Waters
underscoring the grammar challengers of one Chump defender on TIK TOK.
"I'm telling you guys, he's very smart. That's how the country was ran before taxes."
Was ran.
If
you're that stupid, I guess you don't care that you posted a video
exposing that you couldn't pass elementary school English. "Was ran."
It's a shame when she finished fourth grade that they didn't let her
keep the dunce cap -- especially since it appears she never went to any
grade higher.
They
lie to themselves that Chump has a plan, that this is going step by
step, one chess move after another. No, kids, he's making it up as he
goes along. Nicola Slawson (GUARDIAN) explains:
Donald
Trump’s tariff war has plunged deeper into chaos after a cabinet
official floated a plan for new levies on semiconductors – a crucial
component in electronic goods – just days after the Trump administration
exempted computers and smartphones from tariffs.
Trump’s
commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, told NBC the tariff exemption on
several electronic devices was temporary, and that new duties would come
in “a month or two”. Semiconductors would be targeted, he said.
The
president said he would lay out the new tariffs on Monday and that any
relief for the electronics industry would be short-lived. “NOBODY is
getting ‘off the hook’,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform, adding:
“Especially not China which, by far, treats us the worst!”
And Josh Boak (AP) notes:
President
Donald Trump on Monday suggested that he might temporarily exempt the
auto industry from tariffs he previously imposed on the sector, to give
carmakers time to adjust their supply chains.
“I’m
looking at something to help some of the car companies with it,” Trump
told reporters gathered in the Oval Office. The Republican president
said automakers needed time to relocate production from Canada, Mexico
and other places, "And they need a little bit of time because they’re
going to make them here, but they need a little bit of time. So I’m
talking about things like that.”
You've
handed the checkbook over to an addict with no scruples. You're the
chumps for Chump. The sooner you wake up to that reality, the more
likely you'll be able to help out the rest of the country. And even if
you made a grave mistake in November, your help is still needed. From Anne Applebaum's "The Kleptocracy Presidency" (THE ATLANTIC):
The
right question to ask about Trump’s tariff policy is also financial:
How will this enormous change to American trade policy benefit Trump?
One answer is already clear. The countries and large companies damaged
by these tariffs, some of which could face huge losses or even
bankruptcy, will have an enormous incentive to play up to the president,
to offer him political donations, and maybe even to offer business
deals to him, his family, or his friends in order to get some kind of
exception made for themselves or their industry.
In
a law-abiding administration, personal finances wouldn’t be an
important part of the public debate. But this administration’s leaders
have decided that laws and norms of behavior that have held for a
century or more don’t apply to them. The Republican-led Congress has so
far decided not to enforce them either. It’s now up to the media, to
outside organizations, and to whistleblowers to keep reporting the slide
into kleptocracy to the public and to the courts, to make sure that
remaining laws are enforced. It’s up to the Democratic Party to follow
the lead of opposition movements in other kleptocracies and to put
corruption at the center of their arguments. Before it’s too late,
everyone who can do so must communicate what is happening: American
government, American foreign policy, and American trade policy are
slowly being transformed, not to benefit Americans but to benefit the
president, his family, and his friends. Only voters can stop them.
And we're going to have to because Chump is destroying the economy. Matthew Chapman (RAW STORY) notes:
The
United States is about to pay an economic price that Edward Luce for
the Financial Times calls the "moron premium," he argued in an article
published on Monday.
A sign of how far things
have fallen on the right now, wrote Luce, is the constant appearances of
failed former British Prime Minister Liz Truss to MAGA conventions —
and Trump is somehow proposing a scheme even worse than that which got
Truss kicked out of office faster than a head of lettuce could rot.
Chumps for Chump live in denial. They are not at one with the world. Florence Muchai (CRYTOPOLITAN) reports, "The
International Monetary Fund is warning countries about an impending
global recession, citing US President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy and
geopolitical indifferences as factors that could destabilize global
financial markets. In a report released Monday, the IMF cautioned that
escalations in geopolitical risk, especially related to trade conflicts,
could lead to major and lasting corrections in global asset prices. The
global lender noted recent developments, particularly the White House’s
tariff agenda, have introduced a “heightened uncertainty” that could
disrupt macro-financial stability across economies." Need some more bad
news? Elliot Gulliver-Needham (CITY AM) reported yesterday, "The
dollar has fallen 0.7 per cent today, marking its fifth straight day of
decline, as markets continue to reassess the currency’s position in the
global economy. The DXY index, which tracks the dollar’s value against a
basket of currencies, dropped to its lowest in three years in trading
today." David Blond (MARKETWATCH) explains:
The
impact of Trump’s on-and-off again tariffs will be practically
immediate. Americans likely will see the choking of supply chains across
all industries as companies decide to wait to clear their orders
through U.S. Customs. Stores will have less to sell and need fewer
salespeople. Americans don’t have to wait for the knock-on effects in
the CPI; it could show up in farmers not planting as many soybeans or
retailers wondering if ordering in June for the December holiday season
is too much of a risk.
The point I’m making is
that the U.S. is not the trade titan that Trump believes we are.
Important? Yes. But the world can do without selling to or buying from
American companies and farmers. A 90-day pause in U.S. import tariffs
will not bring back trade-policy sanity, and other countries have no
good reason to negotiate with a U.S. president who could tear up signed
agreements on a whim.
Other
damage he's doing? The United States makes a lot of money from
foreigners traveling here for various events, conventions and sight
seeing journeys. Dallas, TX? A magnet for people around the world who
want to remember President John F. Kennedy. And a ton of people do
because President Kennedy was a monumental and historical figure --
unlike his nephew Tiny Balls Junior who is an embarrassment. Florida?
The incredible beaches. Key Largo, Key West. DISNEY WORLD, UNIVERSAL
STUDIOS FLORIDA THEME PARK, Daytona Beach, The Dahil Museum, etc, etc.
California? DISNEYLAND Park, the wineries, the film studios, the Golden
Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park, Alcatraz Island, Pier 39, the beaches,
the San Diego Zoo, Catalina Island, Big Sur, Joshua Tree, Big Basin
Redwoods State Park,
Hollywood Walk of Fame, Santa Monica Pier, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, Mission San Juan Bautista . . . New York has the Statue of
Liberty, the Museum Of Modern Art, Central Park, Empire State Building,
Time Square, Grand Central Terminal . . . That's just a few things in a
few states. Most of the states have major tourist attractions. And
tourists from outside the US coming here accounts for a lot of money
each year.
Do you get how
much money that is? How many industries that impacts? You've got the
airline industry, you've got the car industry if the visitors rent a
car, you've got taxis and Ubers, you've got hotels and motels, you've
got eateries, you've got bars, many of the points of interest have fees
visitors have to pay, you've got the clothing industry since travelers
often purchase an outfit or two (or a t-shirt or two) in addition to
what they've packed, you've got shops -- souvenir and regular shops.
Or it did.
Do we grasp how much money Chump's running off?
In
2023, international travelers poured an estimated $213 billion --
billion -- into the US economy. That amounted to approximately $584
million a day.
And now
Chump's making us pariah around the world. See, sending people to a
gulag in El Salvador doesn't really argue for freedom and democracy.
And since Chump declares these deportations and imprisonments require no
trials, if you're in Paris, you really think Las Vegas or whatever is
worth seeing when, while you're visiting the US, you might accidentally
get caught up in one of Chump's dragnets and end up being taken not back
to France but a to prison -- one where the are no rules or guidelines
and people are tortured.
He's
destroying this country and he needs to stand trial at the ICC for what
he's done with regards to El Salvador alone. You're not legally
allowed to knowingly put people into human abuse situations -- and your
further guilty when you're paying El Salvador to take these people. He
needs to stand in the International Criminal Court and maybe he become
the first former US president to do so after he leaves office in January
2029.
For now, he just ruins our economy. Tom Sykes (DAILY BEAST) reports:
Big-spending
European tourists appear to be turning their backs on the United States
as a a tourism destination, with new figures showing a sharp drop in
transatlantic travel. According to the U.S. International Trade
Administration (ITA), overseas visits to the U.S. fell 12% overall in
March compared to the same month last year. Western Europe -- traditionally
a key source of tourists -- was down 7%, but that modest figure masks some
dramatic declines in specific countries. U.K. visitors, the single
largest tourist group to the U.S., were down 14%. Ireland, another
crucial market, saw a staggering 27% drop. Denmark fell a whopping
34% -- possibly a response to Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S.
should annex Greenland, a Danish territory. German visitors plummeted
28%, as Elon Musk -- reportedly close to the former president—faced
accusations of promoting far-right parties there. Spain and Norway both
saw a 25% decline, and Swiss tourists dropped by 26%.
Where's
the Chamber of Commerce lodging their public objections as Chump
destroys the economy and destroys business big and small?
THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RULHE (MSNBC) last night featured a strong discussion of our economy and corruption.
Donald
Trump’s return to power is not just another act in the familiar drama
of American politics. It is a direct assault on the very framework of
American constitutionalism. This isn’t about pushing legal boundaries or
stretching precedent. It is about transforming legal defiance into
public performance. Trump is not merely ignoring the law – he is staging
a spectacle of impunity. Every ignored subpoena, every violated gag
order, every delayed trial becomes a demonstration of dominance. The
message is clear: the law will not touch me, because I have turned it
into theater.
And like all good
theater, it draws an audience. What should be a straightforward
exercise of legal accountability has become a recurring ritual in which
enforcement mechanisms are twisted into symbols of persecution. Each
indictment becomes a campaign prop. Each judicial rebuke is recast as
political martyrdom. Institutions built to constrain are instead
conscripted into a narrative of grievance. And because the machinery of
justice moves slowly by design, Trump’s tactics – delay, diversion,
denigration – are proving effective. He doesn’t need to win in court. He
just needs to run out the clock.
This is
Charybdis: a legal system whirling in futility while deadlines lapse and
consequences evaporate. Justice doesn’t just fail here – it becomes
farce. Trump has figured out how to convert the slow grind of due
process into a tool of mockery. Gag orders become proof of censorship.
Trials are dismissed as witch hunts. The very idea of law is hollowed
out and rebranded as tyranny. And the longer the system hesitates, the
deeper the damage. Rule of law begins to resemble a punchline.
This
is the bind. The dangers are real, and the choices are terrible. Veer
too far one way, and legitimacy crumbles. Veer too far the other, and
law loses its teeth. That’s the tragic symmetry of the Scylla and
Charybdis metaphor – not a choice between good and evil, but a high-wire
act where the price of imbalance is catastrophe. Odysseus didn’t
conquer the monsters. He outlasted them. And that, now, is the task
before the republic: not conquest, but survival.
But
survival demands clarity. It demands the ability to see what’s actually
happening. This isn’t a cultural squabble. It’s not the latest round in
some never-ending partisan brawl. It is a stress test of whether
constitutional limits still mean anything. Because what we are
witnessing is not the ordinary friction of democratic politics. It’s the
steady conversion of the presidency into a stage for personal power –
where law is not enforced but inverted, not respected but turned into a
weapon against itself.
We’ve seen this before,
just not here. From Orbán to Erdoğan to Putin, we’ve watched elected
leaders keep the outward forms of democracy – elections, courts,
legislatures – while draining them of substance. The systems look
intact, but their spirit is gone. Power is centralized, opposition is
marginalized, and the rule of law becomes rule by law. Trumpism is not
some American anomaly – it is part of a broader global drift toward
strongman politics cloaked in democratic rituals.
He
does need to be impeached. What he did to the economy is not something
a leader does. And he did it intentionally. He ignored every economic
expert. Mataeo Smith (MIRROR) notes:
Some
fund managers are doubting the logic of President Donald Trump's
actions as his back-and-forth on trade policies causes havoc in the
financial markets.
“In the last few days, we
have had many conversations with macro fund managers,” Tom Lee, the head
of research at the financial analysis firm FSInsights, wrote on
Wednesday morning, before Trump backed down from most of his tariffs on
U.S. trading partners.
They think he's insane because this is insanity.
And
he's garbage trash which is why he doesn't golf at Augusta (they don't want him there). He's
garbage trash who embarrasses himself and the country. Yesterday, he
said this: "CNN over here doesn’t want to put them out because
they don’t like putting out good numbers. They only like putting it out
because I think they hate our country, actually."
Someone in the White House should have pulled him aside and said STFU.
With the economy, he's done enough damage this month. We don't need to see anymore crazy from our Breasty Donald Chump.
CNN
anchor Dana Bash cut in as President Donald Trump was still speaking in
the Oval Office to offer a refutation to Trump’s claim the network
“hates our country.”
Trump met with El Salvador
President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office for a photo op on Monday,
during which Trump repeatedly and viciously attacked CNN, including
various incendiary and groundless claims about the network’s beliefs.
He
began by refusing to take a question from CNN anchor and senior White
House correspondent Kaitlan Collins, then said “they hate our country”
and want criminals and murderers to roam free.
Eventually,
Collins was able to grill Trump in a heated exchange during which Trump
insulted her and called the personnel at her network “sick people.”
With
about 6 minutes still to go in the photo op, CNN cut away from Trump
during Monday’s edition of Inside Politics, and Bash addressed Trump’s
barrage before quickly changing the subject:
DANA
BASH: Okay we have been listening to a lengthy live press conference
inside the Oval Office with the leader of El Salvador, Bukele where we
have heard a lot of bits of information, a lot of news nuggets that we
want to definitely focus on, a lot of some misinformation as well.
But
we want to digest all of this right now with our terrific panel here
and our reporters, Jeff Zeleny. I want to start with you. You are at the
White House.
Before I get to you, I just want
to say for the record, since we heard President Trump say in the Oval
Office that CNN hates our country–.
CNN does
not hate our country. That should go without saying. I’ve been here for
32 years and I see a rhetorical device. in him trying to say such a
thing.
The
person who hates our country is Donald Chump and that's why he can't
stop attacking the Constitution. That includes his targeting of free
speech and that includes his use of deportation. BBC NEWS notes:
An
organiser of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been
arrested by immigration officials as he attended an interview as part of
his application for US citizenship, his lawyer says.
Mohsen
Mahdawi, a green card holder who is due to graduate next month from the
New York City college, was detained on Monday in Colchester, Vermont.
His
lawyer said Mr Mahdawi was taken into custody "in direct retaliation"
for his role in campus demonstrations against the Israel-Gaza war.
Others
who took part in campus protests against the war, including Columbia
University's Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts University's Rumeysa Ozturk, have
been detained.
Mahmoud
Khalil. Some are asking in e-mails if I've been ignoring him for the
last two weeks. Yes, I have ignored here on purpose. His wife, Noor
Abdalla, is doing a wonderful job advocating for him, she's got polish
and experience and she's a wonderful spokesperson.
That's the good news and not why I've avoided the topic.
His attorneys are idiots -- and that includes the new ones brought on. And I'm tired of arguing with two of them.
The most important thing right now is to get him out of prison.
And it's not that hard. If you make that the focus, it's not that hard.
His
wife is pregnant and due to deliver their child at any moment. That's
one issue you raise to the court. You raise the issue that the
government's charged him with issues of paperwork, how he filled out an
application. You get him out.
That is the most important thing.
Yes, it's important because he needs to be there for the birth of his child and to support his wife through the birth.
But he needs to be out because it makes any arguments you make afterwards on his behalf all the more powerful.
Getting him out should be the main priority.
Then pick up issues of whatever Constitutional principals you want.
But get him out and it makes any case you make all the stronger.
I'm tired of arguing with them. I'm tired of their refusal to learn and synergize.
The
reason my mind is picked by various friends about their cases is
because I have a pretty good memory and know a lot of case law but it's
mainly because I synthesize. I pull from this legal are and that legal
area and come up with what can work.
They're
trying to make this about the Constitution and only that. Any defense
attorney will tell you that getting your client out from behind bars is
an immediate gain for any argument you're going to make regarding
innocence.
But they don't want to deal with reality and they don't want to incorporate lessons learned in other areas of the law.
So
there's really nothing I can do at this point with regards to that
issue. I wish I could but Im honestly tired from arguing with his
attorneys.
They don't want to listen. Point
out that he might appear before a judge shortly and that you want him in
something -- clothes -- other than a prison uniform. Point that out
and it flies over their head and they don't understand. The focus needs
to be on getting him out. Once he's out, you have have his released
behavior that you can also argue before the court that makes a stronger
case for him.
Again, my time is limited and you can't help when attorneys are focused on everything but helping the client.
Chump wants to move towards deporting us all.
Yesterday,
at the White House, he met with human rights abuser and dictator of El
Salvador Nayib Bukele. Both men are prepared to send more deportees to
gulags and torture chambers in El Salvador. That's where Kilmar Armando
Abrego Garcia remains despite the courts ordering Chump to return
Garcia to this country.
This issue -- and Chump's publicly stated desire to deport US citizens to El Salvador -- on MSNBC's THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW.
Right now Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is not coming back.
And we're talking about that but not talking about the why.
"Because Chump's ignoring court ruling!"
No.
That's not why.
That's a response but it's not why. His ignoring the Supreme Court is a response. But it's not the why.
Why
he's not coming back is because Chump doesn't want him talking -- not
about how a non-gang member and a non-criminal got thrown out of this
country by mistake. Garcia is a face on Chump's very bad policy and
Chump doesn't want that.
Chump also doesn't want Garcia back here because he doesn't want the truth getting out.
Right now, the people Chump places in that prison are really not represented or heard by the American people.
Garcia gets brought back and Garcia immediately talks about the torture he experienced.
He
talks about that torture and forces a lot of Americans to reckon with
the effects of Donald's illegal actions and the very real damage being
done and how we are currently ruled by an international criminal.
That's what's going on. That's the why.
Even an idiot like Lindsey Graham might have to break with Chump in the face of that reality.
Garcia's
best hope is people talking about his case and getting the word out and
forcing Chump to defend his actions when they can't be defended.
Lawsuits also need to be brought against the dictator of El Salvador who
stated at the White House yesterday that he had no plans to release
Garcia.
But we need to be making Garcia's case and pointing out that he's being tortured.
That's
what Chump's trying to hide and that's what reveals him as a crook not
fit to be president. American presidents are not supposed to
participate in torture, they're not supposed to send innocent people
overseas to be tortured.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:
New reporting shows the Trump administration is considering proposing to eliminate Head Start altogether—a key goal of Project 2025
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a senior member and former chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), responded to new reporting that President Trump is considering proposing to zero out funding for Head Start in his forthcoming budget request—a goal proposed in Project 2025, which would cut off essential services and early childhood educational opportunities for hundreds of thousands of families nationwide.
“While families feel the crunch with a worsening child care crisis and much higher daily costs thanks to Trump’s tariffs, President Trump wants to eliminate Head Start and kick hundreds of thousands of kids out of the classroom, fire teachers, and make child care and early learning more expensive and less safe.
“This administration believes we cannot afford to help families get preschool or help kids get basic health services, but we can afford trillions of dollars more in tax breaks for billionaires. It’s offensive and just plain wrong, and let me be clear: Democrats won’t let a proposal like this go anywhere in Congress. But that doesn’t mean Head Start and so many other programs aren’t under grave threat—because Trump has proven he’ll ignore our laws and do whatever he can to break these programs on his own. Trump has already tried illegally blocking funding for Head Start earlier this year, and programs across the country continued having problems accessing their funding long after his administration promised everything was fine. He has already fired the very people who keep Head Start running with no plan in place to ensure hundreds of thousands of families will keep getting the care they count on, so it’s on every one of us to keep speaking out and opposing this administration’s anti-family, pro-billionaire agenda.”
Head Start currently serves over 750,000 kids nationwide, and the program has served nearly 40 million children and their families nationwide since its inception in 1965. There are over 17,000 Head Start centers nationwide that help kids and families thrive, and these centers are particularly important in serving rural communities with fewer options for care.
Since taking office, President Trump has gutted the offices that keep Head Start centers and child care programs across the country running. In late February, the Trump administration fired scores of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Head Start and Office of Child Care. Earlier this month, Trump continued to hollow out HHS, including by shuttering half of the regional offices at the Office of Head Start, which are responsible for ensuring high-quality Head Start services are available to families nationwide. The Trump administration has failed to articulate how it will ensure that uninterrupted services are available to families and that appropriate oversight will be carried out despite gutting the very offices charged with these responsibilities.
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THIS JUST IN! HEGSETH SPEAKS!10 hours ago
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