Even though Trump has lost the election he is still messing with everyone as only Trump can. He is making life hell for Biden. Biden is inheriting a mess. Biden was in politics for 47 years. Only thing he ever did was almost give the US to China with "Who is your mama?" And now Biden is going to hit the ground running? Biden/Harris will go down as the worst Executive Team ever. Can you name any team less qualified to do anything.
Trump - real estate label and reality TV Show host Pence - a man who died 6 years ago but whose body still moves involuntarily
Biden is fine. If I go to your job, and slap the dick out of your mouth; I've prevented you from doing your job, but did I make your life hell? No. The reality is that Trump is making Americans less safe by delaying the inevitable, and he will slow the distribution of the vaccines.
47 years in public office and Biden did nothing. Now he is going to hit the ground... What a farce. Trump is the Master of The Game. Biden has not been able to do anything. Now his own party is starting to turn on itself. Looks like the Demo will lose control of the House in 2022. Nothing is better than a feckless President from one party and the other party controlling The House and Senate.
I've predicted, on this board, that The Idiot Dem Party will dissolve in the first half of 2021. I hold to this prediction.
@ReichlinMelnick New! The Trump administration's proposal to strip work permits from people that have been ordered removed but cannot be legally deported is out. The explicit and stated purpose of the rule is to make those peoples' lives harder so they'll self-deport. @ReichlinMelnick Many people are ordered deported by an immigration judge but cannot BE deported. This is usually because their country of nationality will not take them. For decades, these people have been able to get work permits, since they're not going anywhere. Now DHS wants to end that. @ReichlinMelnick Of course, it wouldn't be a Stephen Miller proposal unless DHS really twisted in the knife. Under the new proposal, even those "very low" number of people who CAN get a work permit would be banned from renewing their work permit unless they worked for an employer using E-Verify! @ReichlinMelnick They would also limit the period of these work permits to one year only, meaning you'd have to be constantly renewing them (and with current backlogs in work permit authorization, be filing for a renewal around the same time as you got it). @ReichlinMelnick Bizarrely, in order to renew a work permit, you would need to show that you still had "economic necessity" to work, pegged to the federal poverty guideline. To get the work permit, you need to show you have no money. And to renew it... you still need to show you have no money? @ReichlinMelnick DHS is also proposing that anyone who currently has one of these work permits would be subject to the new rules when they go to renew their work permit. Considering that only a few hundred people each year would satisfy the first new requirement, that means most would be denied. @ReichlinMelnick Taken together, this new rule would make it so that only a few hundred people a year, if that, would ever be able to get work permits. To the thousands of other people, DHS offers a choice: work illegally to support yourself and risk being sent back to detention, or self-deport.
The Trump administration is seeking to end federal emergency coronavirus relief programs by the end of the year. Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin has asked the Federal Reserve to return any unused funds given to the central bank in order to fund a variety of economic relief programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mnuchin wrote that the emergency programs ‘have clearly achieved their objective’ and requested that the excess funds be returned to the federal government—therefore shutting the programs down. In a sharp rebuke to the White House, the Fed pushed back on the decision. ‘The Federal Reserve would prefer that the full suite of emergency facilities established during the coronavirus pandemic continue to serve their important role as a backstop for our still-strained and vulnerable economy,’ the central bank said in a statement. Republicans in Congress have applauded the move by the White House, whereas Democrats have called for additional funding and extended lending programs as the economy continues to struggle amid the pandemic. The ending of the funds also poses a challenge for President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration, as the action could prevent Biden’s treasury secretary from quickly restarting the efforts next year. Mnuchin tried to downplay the pushback from the Fed by telling CNBC, ‘This is not a political issue.’ However, economist Carl Weinberg, the chief economist at High Frequency Economics, said that the move is like removing lifeboats from the Titanic. ‘These are the lifeboats for the economy, these are the places for companies to go when there is no place else to go,’ Weinberg explained. He added, ‘None of those lifeboats were being used when the boat left the dock, but when you needed them, they weren’t there.’
https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...-birthright-citizenship-in-last-weeks-2020-11 bPresident Trump is reportedly considering putting out an executive order in his final weeks in office to target birthright citizenship, according to two sources who spoke to The Hill. Ending birthright citizenship — which guarantees citizenship to anyone born on US soil, regardless of the citizenship of their parents — has been something Trump's talked about doing since his 2016 campaign. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is an example of someone who gained her citizenship this way. Her Indian mother and Jamaican father were not yet US citizens when they had her in California in 1964. When reached for comment by The Hill, a White House spokesman said he wouldn't "speculate or comment on potential executive action." However, The Intercept reported in 2018 that this is "an idea rejected by an overwhelming consensus of conservative and liberal law scholars." A law written into the Constitution can only be ended through a new amendment. If the president finally issues a long-awaited executive order limiting birthright citizenship, it will be up to the Supreme Court to resolve this issue once and for all," Hauman said. According to The Hill report, the Trump administration is aware that it would immediately be challenged in court if they passed an executive order on the issue. They hope to get a ruling on whether the 14th Amendment protects birthright citizenship, according to one of the sources who spoke to The Hill and is familiar with the plans.
https://www.propublica.org/article/...ment-other-last-minute-policies-before-jan-20 Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies, Before Jan. 20 The Trump administration is rushing to approve dozens of eleventh-hour policy changes. Among them: The Justice Department is fast-tracking a rule that could reintroduce firing squads and electrocutions to federal executions. https://projects.propublica.org/trump-midnight-regulations/ Tracking the Trump Administration’s “Midnight Regulations” The administration is rushing to implement dozens of policy changes in its final days. We’re following some of the most consequential and controversial.