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The quote is the document. "I don't want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral." Vought said this in 2023. He was not describing a flaw in the system to be corrected. He was describing his purpose. Every dollar appropriated by Congress passes through the OMB. Vought has frozen or canceled more than $410 billion of it - including $15 billion in NIH research grants that the Government Accountability Office separately found was illegal. His reaction when told that foreign aid cuts would cost lives: described as blasé. He also froze the NIH grants that fund cystic fibrosis research. His own ex-wife credited a cystic fibrosis drug with improving their daughter's life. The GAO has opened 39 investigations into potential Impoundment Control Act violations by the Trump administration. Vought's response: he declared the GAO "shouldn't exist." Senior agency official to ProPublica: "It feels like we work for Russ Vought. He is the commander in chief." He is not elected. He does not appear on television. He started his career in Mike Pence's congressional office in Indiana. He has spent 30 years building toward this exact moment - and he told you in 2023 exactly what he planned to do with it.

this is going to be like dropping a grey wolf into a petting zoo.

👀 “We were never friends with Orbán,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. More: theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…

If you believe in for-profit healthcare while a fully funded public / universal option doesn’t exist, you are an animal. We simply disagree on things I don’t think a breach-able topics. There is no middle ground here. Get the people healthcare, stop letting them die for profit.

@MorePerfectUS not having universal elder care in this country is a crime

Ohio nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters, according to Signal Ohio. Inspectors for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which funds most nursing home care in the U.S., are increasingly reporting that nursing home residents are being dropped off at homeless shelters where they simply can't get the care they need. The nursing home industry is increasingly being subjected to acquisitions by private equity, and even facilities that aren't being bought out still face rising costs or greater pressure to produce profits. In Ohio alone about 13,000 people are discharged from a nursing home each month. And although nursing homes have legal obligations to make sure that discharges are “safe and appropriate," it's ultimately unilaterally up to the facility to decide where a person should go. signalohio.org/ohio-nursing-h…

Ladies and gentlemen — the Trump Administration’s latest betrayal of the country’s farmers and ranchers!

The Orbanization of America. This is exactly how it worked in Hungary—until it didn’t. These people must go to prison.

If you worked all year to afford a $7,400 family vacation to Disney World, you paid more to Disney than it paid in federal income taxes this year after making an $8.3 billion profit, spending $7 billion on stock buybacks & paying its CEO (Bob Iger) $45.8 million in compensation.

Farmers voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. The Farm Bureau reports today that farmers can't afford to buy the fertilizer needed for this year's crops.

@elonmusk Let BYD on the market and see what the market decides

What happened to all the Tesla killers that legacy press and hedge fund short sellers predicted were coming? 🤔

The post-purge Board of Immigration Appeals is engaged in a revanchist project to erase decades of work to make the immigration "courts" more like a real court (with due process protections and legal procedure) and not a body of bureaucrats mostly rubber-stamping deportation.

@politico's Weekly Tax features the new @The_Budget_Lab report on the reduction in workforce at IRS. “Weakening the IRS by starving it of resources has significant consequences,” said the Budget Lab’s @NatashaRSarin. “As our work shows, gutting the IRS drains public finances, undermines tax fairness, and erodes the quality of services that an agency which touches every American each and every year is able to provide."

DOGE turbocharged the deficit.

@RepMikeCollins What's that got to do with private equity and the Epstein class?

Just figured out how many deportations we may need.

@atrupar Trump has turned geopolitics into a drunk uncle yelling at three different TVs at once.

"It's her who's unacceptable" -- Trump in a new interview today attacked Italian Prime Minster Giorgia Meloni for criticizing his attacks on the Pope

Here are some more Trump quotes from the Italian newspaper that he spoke to. He plainly has no grasp whatsoever on the basics of the situation.

@BoziTatarevic He, more than any driver, has suffered from absolutely minimal seat time that the owners and NASCAR seem to think helps the sport

Kyle Busch had a tough time getting the right adjustments at Bristol as his car actually got worse as the race progressed.

This report on the “Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the FACE Act” repeatedly cites conduct that occurred…during the first Trump administration.