Yeah there were so squirming that they have Front row seats at the Inaugaration.......
United States Trump 2nd Term - Planning and Beyond
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Yeah there were so squirming that they have Front row seats at the Inaugaration.......
Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis Spreadsheet
Here's the big ass spreadsheet of programs that are getting their money frozen until they fill out the info and send it back to the administration:
Article: Instructions for Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis in Support of M-25-13
All Federal agencies that provide Federal financial assistance are required by February 7, 2025 to complete the attached spreadsheet and submit it to OMB. The information requested must be provided for any program that has funding or activities planned through March 15. Agencies are encouraged to complete this task for all their programs as soon as possible. OMB will be following up with additional deadlines for subsequent periods.
Using the spreadsheet provided, locate or filter the spreadsheet to isolate the agency’s list of Federal programs (by Assistance Listing number) and complete the requested information for each program (represented in columns C-G). Agencies should add additional lines to the spreadsheet to include any programs not listed in the spreadsheet.
Column B: Sub-Agency or component.
Column C-G: These columns contain pre-populated information on each Assistance Listing program.
Column H: Identify the email of the senior political appointee responsible for overseeing this program.
Column I: Indicate if the program has any pending funding announcements.
Column J: Indicate if this program has any anticipated obligations or disbursement of funds through 3/15/2025.
Column K: Indicate if this program has any statutory requirements mandating the obligation or disbursement of funds through 3/15/2025.
Column L: Provide the estimated date of the next obligation or disbursement of funds.
Column M-T: Provide responses to each of the questions (Yes/No).
Column U: Provide any additional relevant information on program or project activities.
Submit the spreadsheet no later than February 7, 2025 to: FFAPlans@omb.eop.gov.
OMB will review each agency submission and will communicate additional information to each Federal agency through the agency Senior Financial Assistance Official and the Points of Contact provided.
Literally still called it in the news as (Formally Fort Hood) every time
So eminent domain some land, take decades to get the required ranges and buildings set up.
Yeah it is cheaper to change a name then to go through such a task.
We don't build new bases anymore for a reason
Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
In my hometown there was a bridge that got renamed but no one ever called it by the new name so they just ended up quietly reverting it back.
WanderingCrusaderMan
I'm fresh out of mercy
I skimmed the documents and I think every single government department is getting judged. This might be the single greatest inspection the departments have ever been through. A good thing too because when government-funded agencies aren't inspected in a while they get a bit... quirky(corrupt).
King Arts
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Fuck cheapness. If something is evil and you don't like it, put the money where you mouth is. If not then be quiet.
KilroywasNOTHere
"BEEP!"
I hesitate to call it "war with Mexico" because we don't know how much of the Mexican government is ruled by the cartel and I don't see us annexing Mexican territory anytime soon, but then again we didn't call the war in Afghanistan "the Taliban war" we'll have to see how the history books play out.
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Typhonis
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Hasn't the Pentagon failed several audits? Including one just before 9-11?
LordSludge
Heir to an Empire of Garbage, apparently
Yeah and not just them, but we're not supposed to talk about that or where that giant military spending hole with all the papers and documentation about it conveniently stored in only in places voted most likely to be coincidentally hit by planes went.
Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
A lot of money vanishes into "R&D" programs that go nowhere fast.
And endless 'feasibility studies' that study the problem and determine that more studies are needed to study if more studies would increase the feasibility of the solution or if there's even a need so we need another study for that, all in the name of saving money...
Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
If we could somehow cut out all of the wasteful spending and corruption our military would probably only need about half of its actual budget.
Here's the deets on the pause for all those financial assistance programs:
Article: Q: Is this a freeze on all Federal financial assistance?
A: No, the pause does not apply across-the-board. It is expressly limited to programs, projects, and activities implicated by the President’s Executive Orders, such as ending DEI, the green new deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations that undermine the national interest.
Q: Is this a freeze on benefits to Americans like SNAP or student loans?
A: No, any program that provides direct benefits to Americans is explicitly excluded from the pause and exempted from this review process. In addition to Social Security and Medicare, already explicitly excluded in the guidance, mandatory programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause.Funds for small businesses, farmers, Pell grants, Head Start, rental assistance, and other similar programs will not be paused. If agencies are concerned that these programs may implicate the President’s Executive Orders, they should consult OMB to begin to unwind these objectionable policies without a pause in the payments.
Q: Is the pause of federal financial assistance an impoundment?
A: No, it is not an impoundment under the Impoundment Control Act. It is a temporary pause to give agencies time to ensure that financial assistance conforms to the policies set out in the President’s Executive Orders, to the extent permitted by law. Temporary pauses are a necessary part of program implementation that have been ordered by past presidents to ensure that programs are being executed and funds spent in accordance with a new President’s policies and do not constitute impoundments.
Q: Why was this pause necessary?
A: To act as faithful stewards of taxpayer money, new administrations must review federal programs to ensure that they are being executed in accordance with the law and the new President’s policies.
Because it would take longer and get red taped to much
Eh, probably not. We would cut down on over pricing by companies but it would still need the massive budget.
Most of the budget is in everyday things. Like maintaining the bases etc
Basileus_Komnenos
Imperator Romanorum Βασιλεύς των Ρωμαίων
Bro's probably gonna pull his daughter aside and have a chat. The last thing he wants is to piss off Trump again. His career is also probably already ruined too since he looks weak to everyone. This sort of thing is what ended the Portuguese Monarchy over the issue of the Pink Map, and being unable to assert its own colonial aspirations alongside Britian.
If Trump does annex Greenland, after strong arming the Danes, it would probably have a major ripple effect throughout Danish politics probably even affecting the monarchy as well.
Bruh ... ain't no way! Politics aside this truly is the funniest timeline ever! I see Harambe, your death, it was all leading up to this moment! It was a canon event that kicked off the events leading to a cascading series of unbelievable events until our timeline reaches the status of Peak comedy.
Truly this is peak non-fiction for real!
The Mayor of Boston Michelle Wu did a similar thing with an event called the "Electeds of Color" basically excluding newly elected white from a dinner/banquet. It's frankly insane, and when people pushed on it, she justified it, and the media didn't dare question it.
As an Indian-American, this nonsense abhors me. We shouldn't be self-segregating into various in groups but rather building a larger community with our fellow Americans. That's how unity takes hold rather than having sectarian fault lines being drawn based on racial, ethnic and religious tensions.
I knew his hysteria surrounding Trump was pretty bad, but it was kinda standard for Hollywood celebrities in the LA bubble, but then I read about his personal life, and how much of a scumbag he was where tried to force his son's girlfriend to have an abortion despite her wanting to keep the child. His reasoning for this was that his son (at the time a 37 year old grown ass middle-aged man), was "not ready to be a father."
That's truly scummy behavior. The worst part was he booked an appointment for the woman to get an abortion without telling her, disguising it as a "checkup."
These so-called "progressive allies," and "male feminists" what you used to mock as "white knights" always expose themselves to be vile people, who use the veneer of "being nice" to mask (either unconsciously or consciously) mask a darker side of themselves. Instead of being truly kind, their niceness is more because of social obligation and for image being fundamentally insincere.
In a more extreme example we have Harvey Weinstein who was once considered a so-called "ally" of feminism and women in hollywood, until all his misdeed were brought to light.
Then you have Asia Argento, one of the major faces of the #MeToo movement which helped expose Harvey Weinstein. After Weinstein got exposed some time later in 2018, she got exposed for grooming and raping a child actor Jimmy Bennet she once co-starred with (the case was settled where Argento paid out $380k).
Yeah its one thing if someone else films you crying. That's more plausible and seems organic.
If you film yourself crying over something its fundamentally less sympathetic and comes off as less genuine.
The meltdown on reddit is kinda funny to watch lol.
Looks like Zuckerberg's human update patch was successfully integrated into the Operating system. Though there's not much I can say about Jeff Bezos' new wife.
Yeah there were so squirming that they have Front row seats at the Inaugaration.......
Bro had a wife who supported him from the beginning and helped him build Amazon from the ground up, and he cheats on her. But of all the women he finds, he found someone who had so much plastic surgery, it borders on the uncanny valley. Bro took a huge L. Of course the working conditions at Amazon that he helps facilitate aren't that great either. In terms of Amazon as a tech company, it has a high turnover rate as well which really doesn't seem sustainable in the long term.
I feel that's the case with a lot of these big tech companies. They're awkwardly entering into stage where they're maturing, but don't seem like they can actually pull it off well unlike the older companies like IBM or Intel.
WanderingCrusaderMan
I'm fresh out of mercy
Lost the plot of the thread.