Lud

US President Donald Trump proposed to begin privatizing airport security operations handled by the Transportation Security Administration, in an effort to save money, per Reuters

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Trump Timeline: 🔸️Jan 18: “Iranian patriots, help is coming. We are moving in.” 🔸️Feb 28: “We are launching the decisive operation. It will be very fast.” 🔸️Mar 2: “We will win easily.” 🔸️Mar 3: “We have won the war.” 🔸️Mar 7: “We defeated Iran.” 🔸️Mar 9: “Strike Iran. The war is almost over—clean and decisive.” 🔸️Mar 12: “We have won, but not completely yet.” 🔸️Mar 13: “We won the war again.” 🔸️Mar 14: “We need help to open the strait.” 🔸️Mar 15: “If you don’t help, I will remember it.” 🔸️Mar 16: “We actually don’t need help—I was testing loyalty. If NATO doesn’t help, consequences will follow." 🔸️Mar 17: “We don’t need NATO help and don’t want it. No Congress approval needed to exit NATO.” 🔸️Mar 18: “Allies must cooperate to open the Strait of Hormuz.” 🔸️Mar 19: “US allies must step up and help open the strait.” 🔸️Mar 20: “NATO is cowardly. We may phase this out.” 🔸️Mar 21: “We don’t use the strait. Others need it, not us.” 🔸️Mar 22: “Final warning. Iran has 48 hours. Iran is finished.” 🔸️Mar 23: “One more week, then we bomb power plants.” 🔸️Mar 24: “The war is nearing its end.” 🔸️Mar 25: “We are negotiating with Iran.” 🔸️Mar 26: “Iran is begging for peace. They gave us a gift. We delay strikes on power plants.” 🔸️Mar 27: “I and the Ayatollah will jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz.” 🔸️Mar 28: “Regime change has occurred in Iran.” 🔸️Mar 29: “Negotiations with Iran are going extremely well.” 🔸️Mar 30: “We are prepared to destroy Iran’s oil and energy infrastructure and occupy Kharg Island.” 🔸️Mar 31: “We are ready to end the war without opening the strait.” 🔸️Apr 1: “War ends in 3 days. We will bomb them for 2–3 weeks back into the Stone Age.” 🔸️Apr 2: “We destroyed three major bridges. Why haven’t they called us yet?”

We are so screwed. 😭

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following: $510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research $82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated) $61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated) $240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated) $659 million - Community building grants $47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated) $449 million - Economic development grants for communities $1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA) $993 million - Scientific research and technology standards $150 million - Support for American exports and trade $2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs $8.5 billion - Funding for public schools $1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated) $2.7 billion - College access and higher education support $15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects $1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated) $1.1 billion - Scientific research funding $386 million - Environmental cleanup programs $150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research $4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated) $768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance $819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children $775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated) $5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention $5 billion - Medical research (NIH) $129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research $356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response $1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants $707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure $52 million - Airport and transportation security $40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats $53 million - Funding for homeland security operations $3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated) $1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated) $393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness $529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated) $489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities $50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated) $60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws $58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated) $45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated) $1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety $20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated) $1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated) $395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated) $234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs $101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws $46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad $2 billion - International humanitarian aid $1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated) $4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs $2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships $642 million - International economic and treasury programs $315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad $486 million - Grants for public transit projects $4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure $372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities $145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure $204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities $1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement $100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated) $1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection $2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds $90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated) $3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research $297 million - NASA technology innovation programs $1.1 billion - International Space Station operations $143 million - STEM education programs $309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs $170 million - Small Business Administration operations $158 million - Loans for small businesses

President Trump has signed a 74-page executive order dealing with college sports. It doesn’t go into effect until August 1. Should spur continued debate, but will be legally challenged on multiple fronts. Key parts:

are the republicans going to ask “where are we getting that money from” for this the same way they do when we talk about feeding kids in elementary schools or providing daycare for working families or providing healthcare for americans ?

Trump's 2027 budget proposal includes $82 million in cuts to USDA's Rural Business Service. This program supports economic development, boosts farms, and creates job opportunities in rural communities.

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

No he didn’t, Libby. His written remarks referred to Greenland as a “piece of ice” because that’s what it is. You’re the only one mixing anything up here.