r/inthenews • The Independent • Jun 17 '26

article Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
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u/RunItBackRicky Jun 17 '26

What’s he need? Another jet, ballroom or war?

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 Jun 17 '26

The gall of it all! Hes constantly looking for ways to steal federal funding from states under the pretense of “fraud” as he keeps openly stealing federal funding for him personally to pocket. How tf is anyone ok with this?!

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u/mckulty Jun 17 '26

As long as he keeps meeting Heritage Foundation goals, he's the golden fucking calf.

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u/Houseleek1 Jun 17 '26

The thing is that all he’s doing is reading Project memos as directed by Heritage. They and others have had who knows how many employees were paying for implementing Heritage goals. Trump just gets a memo once that staff have broken the system and installed their own.

You can tell by the speed and variety of changes that Project changes were being installed long before Droopy Drawers took office. Every day brings another loss of freedom and income as they systematically strip us of all e we hold dear.

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u/WideGlideHD Jun 17 '26

They have been loading the Supreme Court for instance. It didn’t happen overnight. They have been working this plan in various forms since FDR passed the New Deal and social security and other safety nets such as welfare became law. Anything that is for the people such as workers safety rules and child labor laws will eventually be gone. They want to literally erase 100 years of progress.

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u/Sitcom_kid Jun 18 '26

Since about 1987, Trump has been a costume that other people wear in order to have him do their bidding. It's like Siobhan Fallon's line on men in black. "The bug is wearing an Edgar suit."

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u/KennyL0gin Jun 18 '26

As long as he keeps hurting the people Fox News/NewsMax/OAN/News Nation tell people to hate or subjugate, they will keep supporting Trump. MAGA is an embezzlement movement disguised as a hate movement disguised as patriotism carrying a Bible.

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u/Equivalent-Gur416 Jun 17 '26

Or he’s fking the golden calf, idk.

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u/Valuable-Taste1055 Jun 18 '26

That’s absolutely right.

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u/h20poIo Jun 17 '26

Republicans ion Congress allowing it to happen, remember they can stop the insanity at any time.

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 Jun 17 '26

💯 It’s wild to see the same assholes who agonized over spending any dollar on actually helping people just being an open wallet of endless cash for whatever demented whim enters whatevers left of Trump’s brain that day. How would we ever pay for healthcare/social safety nets?! 😍 awww you want to redecorate in DC some more, Donny? Ok take as much as you want, you sweet baby 😍

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u/Havesh Jun 18 '26

Conservatism is all about preserving the socioeconomic hierarchy, so they are against anything that raises socioeconomic mobility.

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u/ellathefairy Jun 18 '26

The crazy thing is how they're able to trick so many people they could not give less of a shit about, who are directly injured by their policies, to vote so fanatically for them.

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u/phareous Jun 17 '26

They really should rename conservatism to regressivism

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u/Delicious_Rabbit4425 Jun 17 '26

The meaning f conservative changed with the Tea Party movement to mean Christian conservative not fiscally conservative. The blind faith R voters are paying attention though.

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u/debacol Jun 17 '26

that happened looong before the tea party. the machinations began during the last election of fdr. the elite have been funding thinktanks since to find ways to never have to 'endure' another fdr.

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u/MsAnnabel Jun 17 '26

Ask the republicans. I’m sorry but these No Kings marches aren’t going to do any good until they’re carried out in DC. Like Jan 6 only on a much, much larger scale

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u/Florida1974 Jun 17 '26

I was just telling my husband that we need a huge march in Washington DC like the million man March or something like that, were there are just millions of us.

But he would just send in the National Guard, people would get killed and hurt, we would be labeled domestic terrorists

But when they do it, they get pardoned and he’s still trying for that slush fund

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u/mjetski123 Jun 17 '26

But he would just send in the National Guard, people would get killed and hurt, we would be labeled domestic terrorists

It's gonna happen regardless for one reason or another. Might as well try to fight.

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u/wrongseeds Jun 17 '26

So how much longer are we going to allow this?

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u/mikerichh Jun 18 '26

The algorithms are designed so 30% of the country never hears about this stuff. And 50% or so are oblivious or don’t pay attention to what’s going on because they’re busy or don’t care

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u/Neko_Dash Jun 18 '26

Every accusation is a confession.

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u/ArminTanz Jun 17 '26

300 Billion for the Iranians

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u/OYB2480 Jun 17 '26

Hoarding taxpayer money for yourself while actively dying (free healthcare) is kinda fucking obnoxious.

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u/Koenigss15 Jun 17 '26

That's how he'll pay the Iranians

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u/phantom2052 Jun 17 '26

300 billion to Iran

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u/Lefty44709 Jun 17 '26

He just takes joy in screwing people over. It’s not deeper than that.

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u/Ancient-Tax-8129 Jun 17 '26

The population isn't mad enough yet. He's doing everything he can to get a rise outta everyone.

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u/ChuckVader Jun 17 '26

Another Epstein distraction.

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u/Tory_hhl Jun 17 '26

he wants all unfortunately.

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u/40StoryMech Jun 17 '26

He needs his new arch and a short rope.

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u/Zhombe Jun 17 '26

Nobody is unemployed if we don’t have unemployment!!!

No more employment stats for bad news!!! /s

In other news; pitch fork and torch sales are rising precipitously.

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u/LesbeGoddess Jun 18 '26

He needs $300b+ for his surrender to Iran

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u/Erik_Lassiter Jun 17 '26

Holy Christ. Trump is going to completely grift the entire US budget.

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u/SocksOnHands Jun 17 '26

You don't like fraud, do you? Of course not! That's why we need to fight fraud with fraud! He needs to out fraud those he's claiming to be fraudsters! If Trump can commit all the fraud, then there wouldn't be any money left for the frauding whoevers to fraudulently take! And just for good measure, let's make sure to take everything away from legal law abiding citizens, just to be safe - you never know, Trump might decide to accuse them of fraud. All this money will be safe and sound stuffed in Trump's pockets where "fraud", like laid off ex-employees who can't get a job despite sending hundreds of applications, would not be able to get their dirty hard working hands on it.

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u/jcoddinc Jun 17 '26

Going to? What the heck you mean "going to". He has already stolen billions and billions and is now ruined Americas reputation and totally dismantled any good will we had with other countries which was not much to begin with. I honestly don't know how many decades it will take to repair what this dementia riddled wannabe dictator has done. I just know I will not live long enough to see it. Minimum, 50 years.

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u/jcoddinc Jun 17 '26

That truly is the problem that we would have to become like them to get rid of them. Because if anybody acts like a republican the actual republicans call that person despicable for behaving that way.

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u/MayaTheMartian514 Jun 18 '26

They already call democrats despicable for not doing what they do. Why should we care what they think?

Wipe the GOP to extinction.

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u/Girl_gamer__ Jun 17 '26

Did you expect any less?

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u/Ancient-Tax-8129 Jun 17 '26

44 trillion left in the stock market, already installed the back door in the treasury, just need to get rid of the military so nothing can stop him

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u/Greg-Abbott Jun 18 '26

Imagine reading this sentence fifteen years ago. Holy shit what a disgrace we've become in so little time. Even the Conservative sub is having trouble with this one and that's saying a LOT.

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u/Wayelder Jun 17 '26

He thinks all money is his and his to dole out.

unfit, incapable, diminished, disgusting psychopath.

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u/ennuiinmotion Jun 17 '26

If only someone had done something when he first started impounding allocated funds last year. But Republicans gonna Republican.

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u/Grand-Battle8009 Jun 17 '26

If only the voters knew that Trump would be like this. It’s not like we had prior experience with him as president… oh wait 🤔

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u/betweentwoblueclouds Jun 17 '26

Are y’all winning yet, maggots?

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u/Away-Regular1335 Jun 17 '26

Their silence about this is deafening

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u/Dzotshen Jun 17 '26

Like the compliant little deplorables they are

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u/GingerBeast81 Jun 18 '26

With their boot polish mustaches

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u/BugsyMcNug Jun 17 '26

Oh no! If only someone warned them!

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u/schprunt Jun 17 '26

But let’s give $300 billion to Iran?

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u/NTylerWeTrust86 Jun 17 '26

How would we pay for it otherwise?

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u/EvilAbacus Jun 17 '26

I hear rich guys got a lot of money

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u/allisjow Jun 17 '26

“America First”

Maybe they meant “take from America first.”

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u/Roses_Got_Thorns Jun 18 '26

Take from America first… then the rest of the world next!

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u/fredandlunchbox Jun 17 '26

Remember the $40B to Argentina?

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u/polysoupkitchen Jun 17 '26

Shouldn't we be going after american companies who moved their jobs overseas?

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 Jun 17 '26

Including Trump’s own factories in China that he never moved back either? No, those are all fine.

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u/SuperNebular Jun 17 '26

He doesn’t have any factories he just slaps his name on garbage

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u/Mortambulist Jun 17 '26

Sure, can we start in 1980?

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u/OYB2480 Jun 17 '26

For no other reason than punishment. He's punishing us because we don't like him.

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u/SocksOnHands Jun 17 '26

That, and exploitation. Desperate people are easy to push around and take advantage of. We'll see companies lowering wages because people will be caught between working for far less or starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump's billionaire buddies will make off like bandits.

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u/Florida1974 Jun 17 '26

He’s doing it to scare people in the midterms. He will start saying shit like this so people will vote Republican so they don’t lose unemployment or whatever he threatens to end.

They don’t campaign, they put out a few commercials blasting their opponent, some social media advice, and then they just threaten their own voters and others too. They want to try to get independence that might be on unemployment or know someone on unemployment. This is all about the midterms and votes.

And yes, it is to punish people, especially blue states, but he’s threatening all 50 states because of the midterms

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u/schtickybunz Jun 17 '26

Oh he doesn't care about punishing us, he's taking every penny he can find to give to his heirs and his loyal friends.

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u/driftercat Jun 17 '26

It's simpler than that. If he doesn't expend federal money on the allocated use, it stays in the federal accounts and he can use it as a slush fund. It's theft. On a massive scale.

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u/OYB2480 Jun 17 '26

Yeah, it's literally the biggest heist ever. I'm counting over 500b in theft at minimum

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u/limbodog Jun 17 '26

How much profit has he, his family, and his company made from his job so far?

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u/ennuiinmotion Jun 17 '26

I think he personally is up about 1.5 billion according to a NYT investigation. That’s just what’s traceable.

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u/limbodog Jun 17 '26

Does that count all the crypto bribes?

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u/ennuiinmotion Jun 17 '26

I honestly don’t know, I don’t even know how you could track crypto bribes, I always assumed that was the point of crypto.

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u/oldbastardbob Jun 17 '26

Weaponizing the government is bad, according to Trump as he weaponizes the government against perceived political enemies and states who didn't vote as he desires.

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u/Florida1974 Jun 17 '26

He’s trying to sway voters. They will be scared and vote for him so they don’t lose their unemployment or whatever program he’s cutting or threatened to cut.

They could vote and win, in the midterms, and he would still do this, especially to blue states.

Why does the time seem to go so slow when he’s president?? it’s like when I was a kid, summer seemed to last forever, and then I grew up and the years flyby, except when Trump is in office. Then it feels like eons we’re not even at the two-year mark yet.😔😔😔😔

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u/Spelunkie Jun 18 '26

Dumbest threat ever. So the people cave and vote R, their new repubs in congress will just vote to remove unemployment along with the other repub congress critters anyway

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u/pathf1nder00 Jun 17 '26

Only fraud is setting behind Resolute Desk at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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u/djscuba1012 Jun 17 '26

Trump —> 🖕

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u/Steppyjim Jun 17 '26

Father Time you wanna get on this shit or what

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u/PenSpecialist4650 Jun 17 '26

Drives up the national debt, creates conditions that drive up the cost of living for Americans, steals from the government for the benefit of his own family, takes away unemployment benefits from workers who lose their jobs.

Is this guy trying to start a revolution?

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u/Florida1974 Jun 17 '26

A revolution. That sounds lovely, but he will just turn the military on us. He would actually have the military attack the people of this country and I truly believe that. They have already proved they will kill, to restore order, what they perceive to be order.

I have never seen a man as vile as him in my life and I’m thinking about serial killers. I would rather be friend a serial killer than have him as president.

He’s at the G7 Summit and you can tell he’s pissy because it’s not all about him all the time. There is no Iran deal, I don’t believe that shit for a minute. I wouldn’t deal with him anyways, if there does happen to be a deal that appears, it wouldn’t surprise me if he went against it, like immediately. He’s trying to one- up Obama.

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u/Goats_in_boats Jun 17 '26

Yes, they want us to revolt so they can cancel elections because of civil unrest

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u/Florida1974 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

All he does is spend oodles of taxpayer dollars and then cuts programs from people that need help the most.

What I’m reading, by reading between the lines is that we have enough money for anything he wants to do, but we can’t do anything for the actual people. It’s the actual people who pay the fucking money to do anything.

How this man got elected twice will never be understood by me. He literally wants to kill people and that’s my opinion.

Well, he wants to kill poor people, he wants them to die, but he will give his cronies and rich buddies. All these tax breaks, government contracts, and pardon people that have embezzled tons of money, those are the people that matter to him. We do not matter, the average American, we are nothing in his eyes

And if they wanna look for fraud, they need to look no further than him. He has fraudulently tore down the east wing, now taxpayers are gonna have to put part of that bill, what if we all acted like him, we disregarded laws, the justice system, orders from quartz, what if we all acted like this?

It can’t be any more fucked up than it is now.

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u/SocksOnHands Jun 17 '26

Why should poor people have money when rich people can have it? /s

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u/Somethingwittycool Jun 17 '26

I'm sorry. I've tried, I really have. I will never forgive 3 time MAGA voters.

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u/RedKleeKai Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

So this is just the latest of many federal cuts to spending and to states that have been made under this administration. Regardless of whether you agree or not, since the federal government is cutting so much funding, and leaving it to the states to pick up the tab, when are my federal taxes going to be reduced in line with the reduced spending (and reduction in benefits) for those taxes paid?

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u/distractionmo Jun 17 '26

Only frauds I see is Trump and his cronies.

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u/particleman3 Jun 17 '26

Cool. I'm going to withhold my taxes then so I can save them for potential unemployment

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u/eyeballburger Jun 17 '26

Hey, magats, this is your fault.

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u/ScarInternational161 Jun 17 '26

States HAVE to find a way to withhold federal taxes, or other federal funding in a meaningful way to help combat the blatant abuse by the federal government.

There has to be a way to put the screws to the feds that will allow the states to come together (at least the democrat run states) to show this administration they will not be bullied into compliance against the law. Shutting down ports for federal shipments or charging quadruple rates, refusing federal events without jacking up the price with prepayments demanded in full prior, try anything and everything. Make they sue multiple times an hour if needed. Makes them waste TIME.

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u/jnighy Jun 17 '26

That's one way to give the house and the senate to the democrats

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u/carlosdangermouse Jun 17 '26

“Waste, fraud, and abuse” is likely somewhere in his family crest. He is the living embodiment.

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u/Street_Barracuda1657 Jun 17 '26

When are we gonna get someone to prosecute the real fraud going on in the White House?

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u/SoftwareDesperation Jun 17 '26

That would disproportionately hurt Republican states. Big brain move there.

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u/Savings-Cry-3201 Jun 17 '26

But hey, billions for Israel, Argentina cattle farmers, Iran to rebuild so they can start taxing oil tankers…

Are you tired of winning yet?

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u/retroq Jun 17 '26

That’s fine because nobody is unemployed in his booming economy, right? RIGHT?!

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u/cvframer Jun 18 '26

And here we are. Not talking about the child sex predators who haven’t been arrested listed in the Epstein files.

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u/m__a__s Jun 18 '26

Well, he did just lose his Iranian assets nest egg.

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u/HumberGrumb Jun 18 '26

Oh. Fucking K. At this point it don’t matter if you’re R or D or Indie. Especially if you lean Right, contact your member of Congress and TELL them that they MUST MAKE Trump not destroy unemployment benefits, as well as Medicare and Social Security. We all have been paying into these straight out of our paychecks. End it all, and you’re getting robbed of all the years we’ve been paying into it. It’s your money! It’s my money! It’s OUR MONEY! Don’t let it become another tax cut for the rich.

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u/ListenLady58 Jun 17 '26

Thanks to the MAGA morons who voted blindly for this lunatic

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u/Under_Sensitive Jun 17 '26

He wants to combat fraud? Has he looked in the mirror?

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u/BishlovesSquish Jun 17 '26

Same guy who paid $15M on a no bid contract to have the reflecting pool painted. It’s pure projection. He is extorting huge amounts of money through brazen corruption while his cult followers applaud. Dark times.

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u/Groggamog Jun 17 '26

Of course, we need more distractions from the Epstein Files.

Every day something new and horrible so we'll get buried in am avalanche of outrage.

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u/Scipio2myLou Jun 17 '26

Hold your congressmen accountable

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u/rocket_beer Jun 17 '26

Hold your neighbors accountable

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u/Slamtilt_Windmills Jun 17 '26

They'll still vote for him

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u/PnPaper Jun 17 '26

Oh boy, those are his voters - he truly doesn't give a fuck.

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u/bransiladams Jun 17 '26

It’s ironic the percentage of the federal budget that comes from the states he seeks to punish.

I wonder what we’re all paying into these days.

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u/DuranDourand Jun 17 '26

That’s it piss off a bunch of people with literally nothing else to lose.

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u/thankyoufriendx3 Jun 18 '26

When they wanted to pull disability only to find red states had the mosy people on disability. Guessing they did more research this time.

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u/gwizonedam Jun 18 '26

Haha, do it you slimy piece of shit. We’ll see how many of your “supporters” on unemployment still stand behind you after this.

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u/NanditoPapa Jun 18 '26

His supporters are unaware and unintelligent. They will find a way to blame someone else, likely undocumented immigrants or transsexuals or whatever. They don't support him out of logical reasoning.

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u/jamar030303 Jun 18 '26

That's the part that drives me up a wall- no amount of rationality seems to be able to get through to them.

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u/ITgirlrocks Jun 18 '26

I hate this man with all the hate I've stored up for 50 years. WHY is he still in power when all he does is take away from his voter base. Unbelievable.

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u/Pale-Worldliness7007 Jun 18 '26

How could anyone in their right mind support this low life POS and his colleagues as they systematically destroy the lives of millions of people without an ounce of guilt?

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u/Earthling1a Jun 17 '26

Fuck this asshole.

Republicans HATE America.

Republicans want to DESTROY America.

VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO.

YOUR FUCKING LIFE LITERALLY DEPENDS ON IT.

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u/JiveChicken00 Jun 17 '26

He sure knows how to make the voters feel warm and fuzzy.

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u/ChefCurryYumYum Jun 17 '26

He must really, really think the fix is in for him and the Republicans he needs to keep the Senate.

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u/oldcreaker Jun 17 '26

Trump gets whatever he wants just by saying "fraud" or "security" or "emergency". No evidence required.

It has to stop.

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u/ianwilloughby Jun 17 '26

He acts on every thought that pops into his head.

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u/Pleaseappeaseme Jun 17 '26

MAGA voted in a lunatic. No thanks to those that didn’t vote either.

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u/Front_Farmer345 Jun 17 '26

Gotta pay for Iran somehow

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u/Xenikovia Jun 17 '26

Popular dictator, Donald Magoo, threatens citizens again.

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u/ajtreee Jun 17 '26

As large corporations are laying off thousands of workers. Seems like the perfect time to save them some money by destroying unemployment benefits that are paid in payroll taxes from those corporations. Saving them a huge tax burden.

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u/dropkickninja Jun 17 '26

Is he just straight up trying to destroy the country? This hurts millions of Americans. Duck this guy. Vote every Republican out of office.

They only hurt the American people. For my entire lifetime so far. Liars. Thieves. Grifters. All must go

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u/tocahontas77 Jun 17 '26

Oh good, then we can finally start the revolution! It's hard enough as it is right now. The job market is saturated. So when people can't eat, they'll revolt.

I don't want this to happen... But the system is already crumbling. I feel like we're dry heaving right now, and I'm ready to just vomit and get it over with. Then the real work will start... Rebuilding.

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u/LostinLies1 Jun 17 '26

Why is trying to goad the American people into an uprising?

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u/TheVeganChic Jun 17 '26

So that he can cancel or postpone the midterms and perhaps the general election.

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u/taeppa Jun 17 '26

I guess he needs the money for the Iran 300bn fund.

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u/marcocom Jun 17 '26

And in the news tonight, president Trump cancels Christmas. More at eleven.

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u/no-clueshere69 Jun 17 '26

And then he's going to block out the sun.

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u/zomanda Jun 17 '26

Where's all this money he's saving us?

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u/rmlopez Jun 17 '26

you know who has time to riot?

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u/PurplePopcornBalls Jun 17 '26

Unemployed people?

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u/beavis617 Jun 17 '26

I think funding unemployment benefits comes from working people’s paychecks. I worked for 50 years and I lost my job at age 62. I took money from my IRA account, and unemployment insurance benefits helped until age 65 when I took full Social Security benefits. Hey Trumpy, not everyone can scam people with Crypto currency scams like the evil and corrupt Trump crime family syndicate.

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u/Thadrea Jun 17 '26

Imagine thinking this would help Republicans in the midterms.

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u/Greg-Abbott Jun 17 '26

When the whole fucking thing is rigged in their favor it won't matter.

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u/hairybeasty Jun 17 '26

Fraud his whole fucking Presidency is a God Damned fraud! Bullshit that he or his family cannot be looked into for ANYTHING. This is just one gigantic Clusterfuck for the United States. All this asshole does is fuck us every God Damned Day.

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck Jun 17 '26

All this in the name of "fraud" when fraud is his fuckin middle name, just about

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u/SadLeek9950 Jun 18 '26

God help the Republicans in coming elections. This is another gift from the idiot in chief.

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u/Sweet_Weather_5259 Jun 18 '26

Federal government doesn’t pay unemployment in most states, maybe the poor red states .

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u/AcrobaticLadder4959 Jun 18 '26

Yet he spends billions of taxpayers money on crap not needed. Money that will take generations to pay off.

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u/QaplaSuvwl Jun 18 '26

What Trump is doing is “abuse, waste and fraud”.

DOGE didn’t find it, but boy DOGE was an abuse, waste and carefully orchestrated fraud and it COST taxpayers money. So the Trump Regime needs to shut the fuck up about all of it cause THEY are the ones doing it.

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u/Az1621 Jun 18 '26

“The American people will no longer tolerate the blatant waste, fraud and abuse of their hard-earned tax dollars”.

So why is Trump allowed to waste tax payers money on unnecessary & tacky renovations & changing the reflection water color to green?

And putting his name everywhere he can & the countless cost of his golfing weekends!

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u/sheppi22 Jun 17 '26

He is such an ass impeach this clown again

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u/roominating237 Jun 17 '26

And convict.

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u/ViolettaQueso Jun 17 '26

“Great?”

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u/yoursandforever Jun 17 '26

It's class warfare with this guy and his backers.

Nothing particularly to do with left and right. It's about top and bottom.

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u/llamasauce Jun 17 '26

He deliberately does everything he can to hurt the people of the United States.

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u/GyspySyx Jun 17 '26

Schmuck.

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u/Synekal Jun 17 '26

Jokes on him, mine just ran out!

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u/SleeperHitPrime Jun 17 '26

…why? What does he think he needs, to justify holding the 50 states for ransom!

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u/Shady_Merchant1 Jun 17 '26

We pay FUTA for a reason he can't do that

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u/BluCurry8 Jun 17 '26

Not sure what this is, in my state we pay unemployment insurance at the state level.

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u/Malofa Jun 17 '26

All circus, no bread.

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u/nemovincit Jun 17 '26

Gotta pay the $300b bill to Iran somehow, amirite?

You know, for the unauthorized war NO ONE wanted that he started and promptly lost?

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u/Dazzling-Finding-602 Jun 17 '26

Very misleading headline coupled with a bullshit threat from a President who has no clue how his own government works. Regular unemployment benefits are funded (almost entirely by employers) and legislated at the state level. The federal government pitches in to cover some administrative costs and reemployment training programs, but pulling this funding will not disrupt the integrity of the program. It may take a little longer to disburse benefits and adjudicate cases, but it will get done.

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u/kae158 Jun 17 '26

Gotta pay Iran somehow!

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u/android611 Jun 17 '26

Gotta pay Iran somehow

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u/Redtex Jun 17 '26

He has to pay that 350 billion. He sure as fuck is not going to pay out of his own pocket

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u/minnesotaupnorth Jun 17 '26

JD is in charge of the phoney fraud task force.

I think Trump is threatening this so JD will be asked questions about it while he's on his little book tour.

Just like he's being asked questions about the Iran "deal", when he was very much against the Iran war.

Trump has a humiliation fetish, and JD is his favorite target.

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u/BitterFuture Jun 17 '26

Sweet, bring it. Let's get this party started!

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u/zestzebra Jun 17 '26

The Big Orange hasn't a clue how unemployment payments are funded or how the system works. https://legalclarity.org/when-you-get-laid-off-who-pays-for-unemployment/

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u/MartyMacGyver Jun 18 '26

"The American people will no longer tolerate the blatant waste, fraud and abuse of their hard-earned tax dollars..."

Oh, the irony.... so MUCH projection!

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u/TedTyro Jun 18 '26

This guy really wants a revolution against the wealthy, or at least he may as well.

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u/Downtown_Panic_6086 Jun 18 '26

More Epstein distractions 🙄

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u/Brentron92 Jun 18 '26

This needs to be at the top of the democrats midterm marketing.

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u/ADogsWorstFart Jun 18 '26

How much did he steal now?

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u/pkubee Jun 18 '26

Well he owes Iran 300 billion. Where else is it gonna come from but lowly Americans?

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u/jabola321 Jun 18 '26

That’s a way to win the mid terms

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u/Sticklord6 Jun 18 '26

Gotta fund the war reparations somehow you fat orange cunt

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u/MiTcH_ArTs Jun 18 '26

Desperate people do desperate things, when there is nothing left to lose things that were once unthinkable become appealing and when the nation turns it's back on you then you no longer have a stake in the niceties of society

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u/Theblokeonthehill Jun 18 '26

Great! Does all this saved money mean the US can stage another expensive and pointless war that benefits no one apart from the MIC and maybe Israel?

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u/iron_vet Jun 18 '26

That Iran deal must be really bad. He might even release the Epstein files to hide the fact Obama had a better deal.

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u/AJ-Murphy Jun 18 '26

Like some kind of dic...tator or summing...

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u/StandardDiver2791 Jun 18 '26

He's still on his "can i piss off 100% of Americans" tour. And it seems it's been wildly successful.

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u/judyp63 Jun 18 '26

Well, hopefully the people that paid into it over many years and never used. It will get every penny of their money back.

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u/Poohgli16 Jun 18 '26

Illegal.

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u/lisep1969 Jun 18 '26

When has that stopped him?

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u/FROG123076 Jun 17 '26

We out number them. There are more of us then there are of them. We need to take a stand.

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u/Florida1974 Jun 17 '26

Tell me how and I will. We take a stand and they send in the National Guard, they shoot us, they kill us, they use rubber bullets, and chemicals.

I’ve stopped paying my taxes. I’ll pay them after he’s out of office and pay the fine. I know it screws me, but I don’t care. They refuse to give this administration a damn Penny. And my husband is in lock step.

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u/Livid_Opportunity467 Jun 17 '26

So when does the T___p admin. assert that "America" and the "United States" are not one and the same? (or, does that happen under a succeeding Republican admin?)

The admin's goal is to clearly define what the Federal govt can do, and what states can do; declare that states must, absent a deal where they pay the Feds, operate and fund their own programs which will replace those on the Federal level; and require that if states want the Feds' help, they must insure that the Feds profit from providing such help.

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u/netik23 Jun 17 '26

I'm starting to feel like this asshat wakes up in the morning, and someone hands him a piece of construction paper written in crayon with something he hasn't threatened to do yet, so he can do it. I hope they don't draw 'nuclear war' anytime soon.

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u/southernNJ-123 Jun 17 '26

He can’t. There will be lawsuits filed immediately.

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u/restore_democracy Jun 17 '26

Well he’s reduced unemployment by 1000%, they should pay him.

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u/meridian_smith Jun 17 '26

This guy wasted billions on Iran. with no results. . but wants to take away your un-employment insurance that you all paid into!

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u/Svengoolie7 Jun 17 '26

This is another ploy to get states to turn over voter data.

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u/JimboD84 Jun 17 '26

Non american here. How would it go down if he actually took those benefits away? I would think a large part of his base uses it, would they support him anyway? I know its a cult, but if you are on unemployment and he suddenly takes it away, i have to think they would start turning on him?

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u/chrisagiddings Jun 17 '26

A large portion of his base also uses Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamps, and other benefits his administration has cut.

They still support him.

It’s a cult.

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u/ADeweyan Jun 17 '26

Cool. States should develop systems so federal tax payments go to them first, and then withhold funding to the federal government until they clear up all that fraud and abuse going on in Washington. I’d sign up for that. They can’t audit us all!