The U.S. government shutdown puts millions at risk of losing health care or facing steep premiums as enhanced ACA subsidies expire https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/02/world/us-government-shutdown-and-deadly-consequences/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #democrats #republicans #congress #healthcare #aca
U.S. federal shutdown affects Americans in Japan and diplomatic talks, though some essential consular services at the U.S. Embassy are still being offered https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/02/economy/us-shutdown-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #usjapanrelations #us #donaldtrump #democrats #republicans #congress
Greg Lloyd
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Active-duty service members won't get paid on time unless #Congress passes a separate piece of #legislation, as it did in 2013 with the "Pay Our Military Act," which ensured #military pay & allowances continued during a government #shutdown.
Rep Jen Kiggans (R-VA) introduced a bill in Sept with bipartisan support, the "Pay Our Troops Act of 2026," to keep members of the military & Coast Guard paid during a shutdown, but it did not pass in time because the #House is out of session until Oct 7.
Active-duty service members won't get paid on time unless #Congress passes a separate piece of #legislation, as it did in 2013 with the "Pay Our Military Act," which ensured #military pay & allowances continued during a government #shutdown.
Rep Jen Kiggans (R-VA) introduced a bill in Sept with bipartisan support, the "Pay Our Troops Act of 2026," to keep members of the military & Coast Guard paid during a shutdown, but it did not pass in time because the #House is out of session until Oct 7.
The #shutdown is the first since Jan 2019, & the 4th of #Trump’s 2 terms. Admin ofcls this time, though, have signaled plans to use the closed agencies as a way to vastly reshape the #FederalGovernment & consolidate #power under the presidency.
#OMB dir #RussVought ordered agencies to consider #MassFirings rather than #furloughs. His instructions to agencies include guidance on rewriting #regulations surrounding federal #grants & challenging #Congress’s constitutional #power over spending.
#law
The #UnitedStates #FederalGovernment is officially #shutdown.
The last time this happened was in 2019, wanna guess who was president then?
#Congress #Republicans #GOP #Trump #government #OrchestratedShutdown #economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/government-shutdown-deadlock.html?smid=url-share
This is crazy.
#Trump Admin to Stop Measuring #FoodInsecurity
The move strips the government of its main gauge of #hunger in America, & will impede efforts to track the impact of #aid cuts [that’s the plan].
#PublicHealth #Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/trump-hunger-report-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Two months after pushing through #Congress the largest #FoodStamp cuts in the program’s history, the #Trump admin has canceled the government’s annual report measuring household #FoodInsecurity.
The move by the #Agriculture Dept strips the #government of its main gauge of Americans’ ability to access adequate meals, & will impede researchers’ efforts to track the coming #cuts in #nutritional #aid.
#Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
Alex Akselrod
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#House votes to charge #DC 14-year-olds as adults
#Republicans in #Congress are pursuing a wave of new laws aimed at DC’s criminal justice system.
The #legislation is part of a package that #HouseRepublicans are pushing to impose more #federal control over the District in line with #Trump’s demands.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/politics/house-dc-crime-bills.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#House votes to charge #DC 14-year-olds as adults
#Republicans in #Congress are pursuing a wave of new laws aimed at DC’s criminal justice system.
The #legislation is part of a package that #HouseRepublicans are pushing to impose more #federal control over the District in line with #Trump’s demands.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/politics/house-dc-crime-bills.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Senior White House official Stephen Miller vowed Monday that the Trump administration would dismantle an alleged "vast domestic terror movement" that he linked to the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/16/world/politics/us-trump-liberal-crackdown/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #democrats #republicans #charliekirk #us #congress
Annalee Newitz 🍜
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A federal court ruled Tues that #FederalReserve Governor #LisaCook can remain in her position while she fights Trump’s efforts to fire her.
The ruling, which will be appealed, is a blow to the #Trump admin’s efforts to assert more #control over the traditionally #independent#Fed, which sets interest rates to achieve its congressionally mandated goals of stable #prices & maximum #employment. #Congress has also sought to insulate the Fed from #politics.
#law #economy
https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook-trump-firing-651fcf0637cf14901bbd559df00c856b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-09-Breaking+News
A federal court ruled Tues that #FederalReserve Governor #LisaCook can remain in her position while she fights Trump’s efforts to fire her.
The ruling, which will be appealed, is a blow to the #Trump admin’s efforts to assert more #control over the traditionally #independent#Fed, which sets interest rates to achieve its congressionally mandated goals of stable #prices & maximum #employment. #Congress has also sought to insulate the Fed from #politics.
#law #economy
https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook-trump-firing-651fcf0637cf14901bbd559df00c856b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-09-Breaking+News
Alex Akselrod
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"Trump promised to end the wars. He promised to release the Epstein files. Did anyone really think that the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey #Epstein was going to release the #EpsteinFiles ?"
Senator Jon Ossoff in Savannah Georgia
Over the past quarter century, American #tech companies to a large degree designed & built #China’s #surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling #HumanRights abuses than previously known, an AP investigation found. They sold billions of dollars of technology to the Chinese #police, #government & surveillance companies, despite repeated warnings from the #US#Congress & in the media that such tools were being used to quash #dissent, persecute #religious sects & target #minorities.
A U.S. appeals court has declined to block a lower court ruling that said President Donald Trump's administration could not unilaterally cut billions of dollars of foreign aid. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/06/world/politics/us-court-trump-aid-cuts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #us #congress
"Trump promised to end the wars. He promised to release the Epstein files. Did anyone really think that the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey #Epstein was going to release the #EpsteinFiles ?"
Senator Jon Ossoff in Savannah Georgia
The #Trump admin unsuccessfully argued that courts cannot second-guess the president’s determination that Tren de Aragua was connected to #Venezuela’s government & represented a danger to the #US, meriting use of the act.
In a 2-1 ruling, the judges said they granted the preliminary injunction sought by the plaintiffs because they “found no invasion or predatory incursion” in this case.
#law#AlienEnemiesAct#ImmigrationLaw #immigration#5thCircuit#AbuseOfPower#Constitution#DueProcess
The decision bars #deportations from #Texas, #Louisiana & #Mississippi. In the majority were US Circuit Judges Leslie Southwick, a George W. Bush appointee, & Irma Carrillo Ramirez, a Joe Biden appointee. Andrew Oldham, a #Trump appointee, dissented.
The majority opinion said Trump’s allegations about Tren de Aragua do not meet the historical levels of national conflict that #Congress intended for the act.
In its most distilled form, that’s the conclusion of Charles Breyer, the federal judge overseeing a suit brought by #California Governor Gavin Newsom over the #Trump administration’s deployment of National Guardsmen & #Marines in & around #LosAngeles in June. In a scathing opinion delivered today, Breyer said that the administration had acted illegally.
#law#MilitaryState#PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #tyranny #autocracy#Gestapo#NationalGuard#USTroops #resist
Deploying these service members “for the purpose of establishing a #military presence there & enforcing federal law,” Breyer wrote, “is a serious violation of the #PosseComitatusAct.” That #law, passed in 1878, bars the use of the military in domestic law enforcement, except as allowed by the #Constitution or by #Congress.
Breyer’s ruling makes plain how the admin worked to circumvent the law, & why.
#Trump#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #tyranny #autocracy#Gestapo#NationalGuard#Marines
bhaugen
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"One could say that Trump has blown through the nation’s constitutional and political guardrails, but a more accurate assessment is that both Congress and the Supreme Court — who have, as I wrote earlier this spring, effectively rolled over and played dead when it comes to their constitutional duty to exert checks and balances — removed those guardrails helpfully in advance."
#Trump#Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism#SupremeCourt#Congress
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"One could say that Trump has blown through the nation’s constitutional and political guardrails, but a more accurate assessment is that both Congress and the Supreme Court — who have, as I wrote earlier this spring, effectively rolled over and played dead when it comes to their constitutional duty to exert checks and balances — removed those guardrails helpfully in advance."
#Trump#Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism#SupremeCourt#Congress
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