Budgeting For the Rest of Us

@NotAvgLiberal Yes, they hate the man that OVERWHELMINGLY won the last election. Just like conservatives hate the man who could not possibly have won 2020 and didn't even know whether he did or not. He was just a puppet. At least we have someone who cares about the US.

The Democrats don’t hate our country. The Democrats Hate Trump. Simple.

@HenryFrank02 That's what the appeal process is for, though it's shame that worthless SOB is wasting so much taxpayer money, just by trying to obstruct.

🚨 BREAKING: US Attorney Jeanine Pirro just announced activist Judge Boasberg has BLOCKED a Grand Jury from investigating the Federal Reserve Pirro says this block is TOTALLY ILLEGAL. THE HOUSE NEEDS TO START IMPEACHING THESE ACTIVIST JUDGES. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! "As a result, Jerome Powell today is now bathed in IMMUNITY preventing my office from investigating the federal reserve. This is wrong, and it is WITHOUT legal authority."

@keane72068 @HenryFrank02 You left the part out where "he only does it when it benefits his side."

@HenryFrank02 Activist: A person who knows and upholds the law for its intended purpose, apparently. Our forefathers were activists according to Britain, most of Europe, and most of indigenous America at the time. She probably needs a box of wine and a Reset button toggle.

@ScottMcConnell9 You need to have your head examined.

My advice to Vance: Announce your support of 25th amendment transition. Say Chris Murphy or similar will be veep. Announce you will NOT be a candidate in 2028. Use your position, access to the media to explain why this is necessary. Don't resign.

@swd2 Illegal aliens can't be mothers? How quaint.

Now they’re arresting moms. Hope everyone feels safer now.

@FederalDiamonds @nicksortor @SenBlumenthal If Blumenthal wanted better consideration, he shouldn't have used such strong accusations. THOSE are the ones he MEANT to stick. You can talk all day about what you don't like about ICE without prematurely accusing them of murder.

The move here is best described as: extracting the most extreme claim and making it the whole story. Blumenthal's tweet escalated from "aggravating delays" to "shooting and killing" and Sortor skips the first six claims to quote only the last one, because that's the one that makes a senator sound unhinged. "This rhetoric is meant to TERRORIZE innocent Americans" takes a reckless prediction and reframes it as deliberate psychological warfare, which is the same escalation technique Blumenthal used just pointed in the opposite direction. "You're a sick, evil POS" is the landing pad. The audience arrives at a moral verdict without ever evaluating whether any of Blumenthal's earlier, more plausible concerns about ICE at airports deserved attention. It works because isolating someone's worst sentence lets you disqualify everything else they said, and once the audience has seen "shooting and killing" the legitimate questions about jurisdiction and civil liberties disappear behind the outrage

🚨 WTF?! A sitting Democrat Senator, Richard Blumenthal, says ICE agents are going to be SHOOTING AND KlLLING FAMILIES when they’re deployed to airports tomorrow This rhetoric is meant to TERRORIZE innocent Americans for political gain You’re a sick, evil POS, @SenBlumenthal

@GuntherEagleman @nicksortor @SenBlumenthal Always has been, always will be. When you steal someone else's valor, there's not much worse you won't do. And he did just that.

@nicksortor @SenBlumenthal Blumenthal is a POS, nothing else.

@wakeupusa You better know I did!

Question for MAGA from a liberal woman. "Hi, I'm just wondering if you guys who voted for Trump — did you vote for the Department of Education to be dismantled? Because that's what he's doing right now. MAGA?

@nicksortor Yep, my first thought was about that stupid Bernie Sanders and how he would react to this. Anything less than total capitulation to the fact he is wrong - is not enough.

🔥 WHAT A LEGEND! Elon Musk says he’s willing to PERSONALLY pay the salaries of TSA agents while the Democrat shutdown drags on I had a feeling he’d do something like this. But I’m sure it won’t be enough for Bernie Sanders to stop ranting about him 🤣 Thank you, Elon! 🇺🇸

@SenFettermanPA Please get your colleague Bernie Sanders to come out and admit he is wrong (and stupid too). What a bum he is. Thank you, Sen Fetterman, for recognizing what an excellent human being Elon Musk is.

This is incredibly generous. TSA agents across the country are relying on food pantries and community donations just to get by. I remain the lone Dem to vote with my Republican colleagues to fully fund DHS and get people paid. It should never come to this point.

@elonmusk I want to see Bernie Sanders eat dirt over this. What a bum he is, and (even though I have no affiliation with TSA) thank you, Elon!

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

@Chris_Meloni Spoken like a true liberal moron.

Didn’t need a study for this

@DefiantLs I am more fearful than ever, that morons like you won't get voted out, Bloomie. Stolen any valor lately?

Senator Blumenthal on Iran: "I am more fearful than ever, after this briefing, that we may be putting boots on the ground [in Iran]. Troops from the United States may be necessary..."

@RepMcGovern I don't owe anybody any meals. I do owe the country as part of my tax contributions, active defense capabilities (and attack when needed).

These planes cost $100 Million. Each. $300 million dollars could have provided 139 MILLION meals for hungry people in America. Trump betrayed America first—he picked military adventurism abroad over feeding kids and seniors here at home. militarytimes.com/news/your-mili…

@vivilinsv @OliLondonTV What do you mean "leave yourself some dignity." She never had any and she never will. She's disgusting.

Don’t embarrass yourself, Jane. Leave yourself some dignity, please. You could have been a beauty guru and a great actress, even the activist for climate change, which I all admired, but you chose to stand on the wrong side of history and ignored the cries of the Iranian people dying for their freedom. And yet you defend the evil regime?

Jane Fonda protests AGAINST strikes targeting Iranian regime; despite the regime massacring 36,500 civilians. “This is a desperate immoral act in the hopes that he can score victory and be declared ‘War President.’”

@Kash_Patel Stupid game, stupid reaction. Grow up and do real FBI stuff. And if you want to cheer on your own, PAY for your own cheering

Unity, Sacrifice, Attitude- what it takes to be the best in the world. These men live and breathe it. Now Team USA are gold medal champions, legends standing on the shoulders of giants. Thank you for representing the greatest country on earth, in the greatest game ever created. 👊🏼🇺🇸🏒 congrats boys @usahockey

@RodneyEcho @WhiteHouse Just like they were in the past. SO...what's the BFD? You were okay with it until Trump came along and took off a big part of the burden. Total TDS, YOU are the one who is "not OK."

@BFTROU @WhiteHouse Im pointing out that taxes will still be used Are you ok? 😂😂

“Will be the Greatest Ballroom ever built, now rising at the site of the White House — Fully paid for by American Patriot Donors. ZERO cost to our United States Taxpayers!” - President Donald J. Trump

@HabsHappy @WhiteHouse Oh, definitely....for sure if a man has fake shoulder pads, he's not to be trusted. How stupid are you, anyway?

@WhiteHouse ..meanwhile Fake Trump sues American Taxpayers $40 Billion Dollars

@caringguy1957 @WhiteHouse So you are telling me that the old ballroom cost the taxpayers nothing in upkeep, staff, maintenance, etc. etc. How stupid do you think we are? Oh, you have TDS, so that means YOU are the one with stupid....

Sure MAGA will believe this nonsense but those of us who actually understand how things work, not so much. The claim that this has “zero cost to taxpayers” is a lie. I know I am shocked as well. Even if private donors covered every dollar of physical construction, which itself would require extraordinary transparency to verify, taxpayers still absorb the long term financial burden that follows any permanent structural change to the White House complex. The building is not a private property, it is a heavily secured federal facility with unique operational requirements, and every modification creates ongoing public expenses. Security costs alone will be substantial and permanent. Any new event space changes Secret Service protection plans, physical security systems, screening infrastructure, staffing needs, surveillance coverage, and emergency response protocols. Those costs are federal, recurring, and funded by taxpayers, not donors. Operational and maintenance costs will also rise indefinitely. Climate control, utilities, custodial services, preservation work, repairs, staffing, and upgrades never end for a facility like the White House. Larger footprint means larger annual appropriations. No donor fund magically pays federal maintenance budgets year after year. There are also infrastructure and engineering implications that trigger public spending. Structural integration, communications systems, hardened construction standards, accessibility compliance, fire protection, and continuity of government requirements all involve federal agencies and federal dollars. Those obligations exist regardless of who writes the initial construction check. Event driven expenses will expand as well. A ballroom is not decorative, it is a functional venue. Every event involves security coordination, logistics, staffing, transportation control, and local law enforcement support. Those are public costs that repeat continuously over decades. Then there is the basic reality of federal budgeting. The White House is maintained through congressionally appropriated funds. Any addition increases lifecycle costs that flow through future budgets. Claiming “zero cost to taxpayers” ignores how government facilities actually work. We don't care whether ballrooms are aesthetically pleasing, it is about whether public resources, security priorities, and federal funds should be indirectly committed to support something marketed as “free.” Construction funding is only one tiny slice of the true cost of any federal facility. And @realDonaldTrump is the only one that cares about this ballroom.

@Fwd_Party @WhiteHouse Since the taxpayers don't have to pay for it, what's your problem with it? Yeah, that's what I thought. You have a raging case of TDS.

@WhiteHouse When we set out to build a new electoral system, we were thinking, “You know, the government just isn’t hearing the outpouring from voters demanding a new ballroom.” …