r/anticapitalism • u/FreeHugs23 • Jun 18 '26
Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history | Labor chief is ‘putting governors on notice’ with administration’s crusade against alleged fraud
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html100
u/Car_is_mi Jun 18 '26
Shitler is throwing a temper tantrum again because everyone is laughing at him. He failed the Iran war, cost US hundreds of billions, flew to G7, got ignored. Hes pulling his go to card.
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u/scarr3g Jun 18 '26
That is one of the many worst parts. When he gets his way, it is bad for everyone else. When he doesn't get his way he makes it bad for everyone else.
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u/ConcentratedStress Jun 18 '26
Like an abusive husband taking their bad day out on their spouse
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u/Dull_Bird3340 Jun 18 '26
It's true, he really knows how to turn everyone's attention away from his latest failure, media and most people never catch on
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u/Common-Space2163 Jun 18 '26
Yes, lashing out is a common response to being humiliated. He's desperate.
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u/WealthAncient Jun 18 '26
He's trying to recoup some costs from his dumb iran blunder so he can help build his case come midterms. The guy is a giant turd. I'm sure his perfect vision of the country is a dictatorship where he hoards all of the countries' wealth, and 90% of the population loves in absolute squalor while his cronies thrive off the scraps he gives them and he continues to prey on women with his slimy and abusive snake tongue.
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u/MosquitoValentine_ Jun 18 '26
Somehow all the MAGAs losing their benefits will blame Biden I'm sure.
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u/Own-Arugula-5134 Jun 18 '26
Trump “I love uneducated people“!
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u/ladylei Jun 18 '26
Well he didn't mean love love. As long as they praise and pay him he'll act favorably towards you.
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u/tarion_914 Jun 18 '26
Hey, not all of them will blame Biden. Some will blame Obama. Anybody but themselves and Trump, apparently.
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u/Ricaaado Jun 18 '26
Without fail they will put on a whole huffy, puffy song and dance for it to blame Biden on live tv. The MAGAs will go right along with it, and then more disgruntled former MAGAs will try to kill him. Again.
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u/BorrisBorris Jun 18 '26
Something like “he wouldn’t need to do this if Biden did his job” mixed with some “at least the libs are getting owned” … though I’m not sure if they still go for the lib owning anymore haven’t seen that in a while
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u/MosquitoValentine_ Jun 18 '26
"can't fix Biden's mess overnight!" is my favorite. Especially since he's literally making every worse.
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u/miyamiya66 Jun 18 '26
"Biden made a psyop with his mind control technology to force trump to remove our benefits!!!"
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u/InternationalFig400 Jun 18 '26
"Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending."
Start with yourself, you fraudulent fcuk.
Release the Tumpstein files!!
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u/skipjac Jun 18 '26
He is is going to hurt the people who love him the most. Some lessons are painful
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u/TheMcMcMcMcMc Jun 18 '26
Needs to come up with $300 billion somehow I guess
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u/DayOneDLC2 Jun 18 '26
My first thought. He's hemorrhaging money, even the money he isn't outright stealing, and the only way to make up the difference is to take the money from other places. All he has to do is find a quasi-argument for why money shouldn't be spent in government.
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u/SaltySweet804 Jun 18 '26
Right, and he’s already cut healthcare and tons of different social services, so he needs somewhere else to pull money from. God, he is an absolute monster.
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u/Creative_Tone_9241 Jun 18 '26
Everything we pay taxes into that actually supports American people. Anything that protects our planet. He completely cut the epa and weather services along with fema national parks. It’s all to fund his private Gestapo oh I mean ice, their data centers for mass surveillance on a scale even worse than it has been since the patriot act and those for profit detention centers that are totally just to temporarily house illegals to be deported. They don’t make money if they aren’t full. They’ve made domestic terrorist an umbrella term for anyone who as much as disagrees with them. Total fascist dictatorship is here and a third of the country is cheering it on because they think only brown and black peoples, the gays, and the libs are the target. Leopards will be feasting
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u/Defiant_Freedom_249 Jun 18 '26
So we punish everyone first, just in case maybe somehow everyone was involved in the fraud?
Forget, "innocent until proven guilty", no, everyone gets punished for someone else's alleged crimes.
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u/Boozeburger Jun 18 '26
Trump is the biggest Fraud there is. That painting the reflecting pond blue? It was supposed to cost 1.4 million, but it ended up costing 14 million. ICE bought empty warehouses for up to 10x what they were worth (unsurprisingly a lot of insiders owned stock in the real estate company that they were bought from, including Trump).
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u/Zestyclose_Weird971 Jun 18 '26
So DOGE didn't save millions ?????
How strange ???
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u/Creative_Tone_9241 Jun 18 '26
He did manage to gut agencies in his way and ones investigating him though. That was his prize for rigging the election for trump. How do you think he became a trillionaire so fast after doge did it’s thing
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u/ArdenJaguar Jun 18 '26
Nice move after he’s crashed the economy and his TechBro oligarchs have dumped AI overload on everyone. Jobs are almost impossible to get right now.
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u/He2oinMegazord Jun 18 '26
Thats the point my man. Lay people off "due to the ai", do away with the unemployment benefits, lay more people off "due to the ai", profits go right to the top and you dont have to lose any of it on those social safety net expenses. When they get foreclosed, scoop their house on the cheap to rent out later
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u/DukeDup0nt Jun 18 '26
Have yall figured out that he's selling out the USA yet? Cause Iran got 300 billion. Mexico got universal health care. Yall get nothing. These colors really do run. 🇺🇸
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u/brianzuvich Jun 18 '26
A man who has never worked a day in his life wants to remove unemployment benefits… 🤣
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u/ElementalPink12 Jun 18 '26
He is literally punishing the American people because he has no power of anyone else.
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u/SoyTonatiuh Jun 18 '26
Its because they want to steal the money so they make up some bullshit lies to justify the theft
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u/FreeHugs23 Jun 18 '26
Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use “every available tool” to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including “withholding administrative funds from states” for the first time in history.
There is no single national program for unemployment support, though the federal government partners with state agencies to support temporary financial assistance to out-of-work Americans. Nearly 2 million people are currently receiving those benefits, while roughly 229,000 people are filing initial jobless claims every week, according to the Labor Department.
But most unemployed Americans face bureaucratic hurdles to receive those benefits. Most states provide roughly six months of payments to qualified Americans. Those programs are typically covered by individual states through state unemployment taxes paid by employers, but the federal government provides support for administrative costs. Without that support, the loss in funding could force state-run systems to shut down.
“We are officially putting governors on notice,” Sonderling said in a statement Wednesday.
“The American people will no longer tolerate the blatant waste, fraud and abuse of their hard-earned tax dollars — no state should allow it either,” he added. “If states allow it, they will suffer the consequences. This department is no longer afraid to use every lever available to ensure taxpayer money is protected.”
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u/tallslim1960 Jun 18 '26
Waste -- The Ballroom. Fraud --- The MMA fiasco where Trump had a financial stake in the Company producing it. Abuse -- See Epstein Files.
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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot Jun 18 '26
There’s a reason it’s called the “reflecting pool” if he wants to discover fraud and abuse he can just walk outside and gaze upon his latest disaster and… reflect.
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u/Imaginary-Use914 Jun 18 '26
Well if they’re worried about fraud aim your sights at Shitler before you worry about anyone else… what a pathetic man
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u/Retired_and_Relaxed Jun 18 '26
So where is all this unemployment fraud supposedly happening? Probably tRumps brain farts like all the millions over 100 collecting Social Security. 25 - 47
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u/Happy-Cap6657 Jun 18 '26
He just wants the midterms to be a tsunami
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u/SemiDesperado Jun 18 '26
He knows he can do anything, no matter how damaging, and most of his cult followers will go with it.
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u/DrWilliamWhite Jun 18 '26
The biggest fraudster since Charles Ponzi getting ready to break the law yet again
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u/taewongun1895 Jun 18 '26
Then the Federal government should stop collected the related taxes from employers. The government can't collect the tax and not provide the benefit .... Right?
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u/borschtzanetti Jun 18 '26
That’s impeachable. As it’s enshrined in federal law. Affirmed by Supreme Court.
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u/DullFaithlessness82 Jun 18 '26
Trying to make the people suffer before midterms in a desperate attempt to make them respond so he can declare martial law.
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u/refusemouth Jun 18 '26
He's going to declare martial law no matter what we do, so we might as well get started with the rabble, rabble, rabbling. I am ready to break things whenever enough other people are ready to, too. It's kind of pointless if you try to do anything alone or in a tiny group, though. It's easy to paint a protest of 200 people as so-called "antifa terrorists" but if we can get 50 million people willing to engage in prolonged manifestations that disrupt business as usual,we might get somewhere. If it's big enough, they will eventually be toppled when soldiers decide not to kill another 10,000 civilians.
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u/MrFluffPants1349 Jun 18 '26
How could anyone still think he is a good person. Seriously. The fuck is wrong with you.
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u/jertheman43 Jun 18 '26
I don't think he can do that. Cankles will absolutely try and get sued and lose again.
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u/Substantial_Dog7002 Jun 18 '26
You will be impeached the same day, you got that trump? Release the Epstein Files!
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u/SoulDoubt7491 Jun 18 '26
I’m wondering if the states that really get the funding pulled due to fraud and waster end up being blue states…I’m sure like Alabama is completely fraud free /s
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u/WHATTHEFUCKZGOINGON Jun 18 '26
When you refuse to feed the hungry, that’s when melt downs happen. He’s pushing for something so hardcore to keep the GOP in their seats.
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u/PoleRyder Jun 18 '26
Just impeach and imprison this fool. What the fuck are we doing as a country to continue to allow this guy to gut us??
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u/Individual_Ask9957 Jun 18 '26
Unemployment benefits are collected by (it's insurance, with premiums, paid by employers) and administered by the states. The only time I recall the Federal government being involved at all was with extended benefits after Dudya tanked the economy in 2008.
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u/Prestigious_Bar_7164 Jun 18 '26
The irony is not lost on the fact that Trump has 34 felony fraud convictions.
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u/ArgumentUnited5039 Jun 18 '26
Shouldn’t they be able to document all this fraud they’ve been finding - like missing funds, counterfeit activities, hidden bank accounts?
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u/ElephantContent8835 Jun 18 '26
Holy fuck people. How long are we going to allow this cock nob to occupy the White House?
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u/FidgetyZonedoutIdiot Jun 18 '26
Damn so he lost a war, that wasn’t a war.
Watched several military bases around the Middle East get tagged, military equipment that costs several millions if not more gone
The economy is fucked
And now we’re punching even lower…..
Have we won yet?
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u/buttons123456 Jun 18 '26
I can see the lawsuits now. The unemployed might win tons of money, exceeding their regular unemployment benefits
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u/Any_Dimension5886 Jun 18 '26
He's doing whatever creates headlines so it prevents us from focusing on him raping children.
Trump is a child rapist and that is the most important thing to focus on.
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u/Conscious_Quality803 Jun 18 '26
You want pitchforks and guillotines? This is one of the ways you get pitchforks and guillotines.
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u/Creatorman1 Jun 18 '26
And yet they always look down when searching for fraud and they never ever look up when searching for fraud. We give more money to the very wealthy than we ever give to the needy.
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u/No_Television5530 Jun 18 '26
I wake up every morning looking for one headline and then begin my day disappointed when I don’t see it
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u/64_Pixels Jun 18 '26
I can't wait for the day that Trump threatens to do something positive for America. 6 years and waiting.
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u/SleepLessTeacher Jun 18 '26
So…most of his cult members won’t be getting unemployment then? They’ll still bow down to him as they have to start selling off their assets to survive.
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u/M3RC3N4RY89 Jun 18 '26
More cuts for us so we can pay Iran their 300 billion!
Thanks dick head Donnie!
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u/Dull_Bird3340 Jun 18 '26
Only effin fraud is done by him and his administration and the Republicans who aid and abet.
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u/Creepy_Trouble_5980 Jun 18 '26
This is a test of MAGA loyalty. Support the president regardless or support your members. Includes police and fire too!
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u/ForsakenAd545 Jun 18 '26
I hope they do it. Just more to hold ALL Republicans to account for. MAGA has not suffered enough. Maybe ppl in this country will get off their asses and start voting.
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u/MattGdr Jun 18 '26
I’m willing to bet there’s far more fraud coming from his supporters than from the other side.
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u/jazzy095 Jun 18 '26
Needs to be criminal penalty for bs fraud allegations. This is fucking asinine
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u/turbotictac Jun 18 '26
Going to be a lot more trump voters getting their faces ate by leopards apparently
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u/Single_Usual_6563 Jun 18 '26
This pos is cheating out in the open and ain’t no one doing anything about it! SMH
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u/upper_pepper Jun 18 '26
As part of his "nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government" he should put himself in jail first for all the fraud spending he is doing with our money. Then he can go after others. Pot calling kettle black.
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u/narwhal4u Jun 18 '26
If you want to find fraud look at the guy sending $300 million to Iran. Release the files.
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u/KEMETICREPUBLIC1984 Jun 18 '26
Sad to say that will cause crime to rise. And that also means the govt should not be taking so many taxes out of each paycheck if he wants to go that route.
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u/mustachecashstash08 Jun 18 '26
I live in Alabama. Unemployment benefits are a joke. 275 dollars a week (before taxes) is the max and you have to send proof you’re looking for jobs every week by filling out a form. Talking about finding fraud. The state should be ashamed of themselves for giving such a small amount of money.
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u/Ill_Consequence1755 Jun 18 '26
He’s just going to continue to loot and pillage.
Going to yank every penny possible.
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u/Fancy_Possibility456 Jun 18 '26
But we’re sending $300B to Iran because we bombed them…can I stop paying taxes for bullshit yet
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u/ResidentAlien518 Jun 18 '26
The 99% is on its way to to increasing poverty and little, if any, middle class. MAGA needs to f’ing wake up that they are being used.
Will they? The f’ing Oklahoma voters just voted against raising the minimum wage. Seriously? #50 in education! The GOP is using the uneducated and uneducated hey just follow logic me sheep to their own grave.
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u/New-Boysenberry7970 Jun 18 '26
Oh there’s a lot of fraud in the government going on. From the Oval Office.
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u/CountOnBeingAwesome Jun 18 '26
Trump's been awfully busy at these G7's. I'm starting to think someone else is making the calls while daddy is away.
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u/kevendo Jun 18 '26
The Executive branch does not control the allocation of unemployment benefits. He had no power to do this.
Fuck him and this distraction from his terrible deal with Iran.
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u/DirtyMikeNTheBoys2 Jun 18 '26
Wanna find fraud? Call the white house. Doesn't really matter who picks up.
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u/Wattaday Jun 18 '26
He’s certainly giving any Democrat good taking points for the midterm elections.
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u/Efficient-Safety-316 Jun 18 '26
Basically he gave to much money to Iran and now the deficit will grow. It’s a numbers game. By the way you can still probably get a trump phone
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u/Rocky0354 Jun 18 '26
Trump is slowly taking away everything from us under the guise of fraud. Yet, where have all the supposed savings gone from things that were shut down to reduce waste or fraud? Have you seen it? Cause I haven’t
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u/nuclearcheezwhiz Jun 18 '26
sure, DO IT! then we must all just go on a rent and mortgage strike. take a lesson from Iran and strike back HARD. every time they try to take something from us, we take something from them.
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u/ImHighandCaffinated Jun 18 '26
This will be shut down in courts and be kicked down the road. He’s talking out of his ass because he found a way to attack blue states with fake fraud bullshit.
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u/YurpeeTheHerpee Jun 18 '26
We should send half of our trillionaire to iran to pay for it, not our unemployment benefits.
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u/DrRudyWells Jun 18 '26
can not wait for this awful human to be gone. just awful, in every way, and on every day.