Summary
House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to cut 75% of federal agencies, reducing them from 428 to 99, in collaboration with Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), led by Vivek Ramaswamy.
Johnson’s agenda includes defunding PBS, Planned Parenthood, and curbing the “administrative state” through legislation and executive orders under Donald Trump.
Critics warn such cuts would impact jobs, healthcare, and essential services.
Backed by recent Supreme Court rulings limiting agency authority, Johnson and DOGE aim to reduce federal regulations, sparking significant debate over these drastic proposals.
Cool. So, like the ATF, the DEA, the IRS, and the NSA?
What, not those agencies? Curious.
Why the fuck would you want the IRS to get the axe? They get shat on by the GOP for the express purpose of starving them, so they can’t go after the wealthy
The Department Of We Already Know What Taxes You Owe But Are Waiting To Punish You For Guessing Wrong On Your Paperwork?
They already don’t go after the wealthy, and they basically never have. At this point the IRS basically just exists to harass the poor and uneducated. A block of wood could come up with a better way for the federal government to collect taxes.
Don’t they want to handle your paperwork for you but are prevented from doing so by laws written, effectively, by Intuit?
Don’t they very much want to tax the rich but are unable to do so because they aren’t given funds sufficient to fight the lawyers employed by the rich?
We got to vote these corrupt politicians out in 2026! If we can get enough Democrats into office then that means Trump can be impeached.
I can’t tell if you’re joking. Your comment is making me have 2017 flashbacks
What else are we supposed to do? I wish Biden would use his powers to stop Trump now but if he doesn’t we can either be stuck with Trump for 2 years or be stuck with him or 4 years or more. Getting a big blue majority in 2026 would stop Trump faster.
As an outsider looking in, I am wondering whether this might mean that the Republican party has a vision for a weaker federal government, such that the states would have more, well, rights. I.e., if the federal government gets very scaled down, is that at the same time emptying up the regulatory space for individual states to go in all sorts of different directions, or does it come with some kind of libertarian straightjacket?
The majority of the US population lives in wealthy blue states. If the regressive rural states can’t stomach the kind of extensive welfare state that makes sense in more urbanized places, fine. Like a “two speed Europe”, they can choose to stay behind, so long as California, Massachusetts, NY etc get the freedom to experiment with social democratic policies.
Edit: this kind of more decoupled federalism also exists eg in Canada. Quebec gets to pretend it’s France while Alberta gets to pretend it’s Texas.
Oh no. It’s entirely so they can do stupid shit. They’ll happily ax 75% of agencies and set the DOJ to making sure Blue States don’t just do it on their own. We’ve seen this play out in some red states already where they forfeit any regulation on a subject and then ban the blue cities from doing it themselves.
In effect they want states to be able to do what they want, as long as it aligns with Republican ideals. All you need to do is look at their rhetoric towards sanctuary cities for the “states rights” argument to fall apart.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
-Frank Wilhoit
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
-Frank Wilhoit “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” ― John Kenneth Galbraith
Our dumbfucks fucks here in Quebec are increasingly leaning towards the Americanization of Canada.
I’ve seen so many people talking about how it would be cool to be the 51st state when he met Trudeau.
Wait until the override the posse comatatus act. The. It will be clear. They plan to make money slaves out of blue states.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/posse-comitatus-act-explained
Bars use of military as a domestic police force.
You’re going to have to take care of yourself, and those around you. You should be prepared to !resist@fedia.io
You know how people look back at history and go “the situation back then wasn’t perfect, but the idiotic way some in power tried to fix it just made it soooo much worse!”…
Yeah, this is the next step up in the current cycle of this. In centuries to come anyone who is about able to reflect on things will not look at Johnson et al at all favorably.
in the centuries to come, the beings that replace humans won’t know who the fuck mike johnson was.
