Cabinet choices and transition plans

Boy is she a piece of work.  So we have a potential AG lying.

”Hirono: Are the felons convicted of breaking into the Capitol on Jan 6th hostages or patriots?

Bondi: I am not familiar with that statement

Hirono: He said illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation

Bondi: I am not familiar with that statement”


x.com/acyn/status/1879571037467419121?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nw

Bondi seems to have lived in a box, she claims not to have heard most of the comments from maga that have become well known...

And the truth comes out.... Treasury Sec admits. Extended and more tax cuts for the billionaires is their desire..!!!!


x.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1879939130240684236

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Treasury chief, billionaire Scott Bessent, received blowback on social media after claiming that Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy would prevent "economic calamity."

Bessent testified Thursday before Congress for the position of Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. If confirmed, Bessent would join the long list of millionaires and billionaires who will be populating the new Trump administration.
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"This is the single most important economic issue of the day — this is pass/fail," Bessent said. "If we do not fix these tax cuts, if we do not renew and extend, then we will be facing an economic calamity and, as always with financial instability, that falls on the middle and working-class people.

"We will see a gigantic middle-class tax increase. We will see a child tax credit cap. We will see the deductions halved ... it has the potential for a sudden stop. And, as I said, traditionally with these sudden stops, it falls on working Americans."

www.rawstory.com/bessent-touts-trump-tax-cuts/

Oh well, you certainly did voted for this when you voted for FF/TFG...
He says he doesn't know anyone who voted for this.

Educators and families in areas where Donald Trump's "America First" seemed to resonate the most could be hit with "catastrophic" cuts.

Tom Gambrel, the superintendent of Bell County, Kentucky, schools, joined most of his neighbors and cast his vote for Trump with his students in mind, but he told CNN that he hopes the president-elect doesn't carry through with his plan to cut federal education funding.

“I don’t think that anyone in our county wants to cut our school funding," Gambrel said, "and I don’t think that anyone voted for that."

Gambrel said the proposed cuts would be “catastrophic," forcing teacher layoffs, packing more students into classrooms and getting less attention for vulnerable students.

A CNN analysis found that all 15 of the states that rely most heavily on federal support for public schools in 2022 backed Trump in November, while all but two of the 15 that receive the fewest federal dollars as a percentage of their overall revenue supported Kamala Harris.

“This is one of these cases where (Republican) policies are stabbing their base right in the heart and will directly impact their kids,” said Will Ragland, vice president of the Center for American Progress.

Trump hasn't shared many details of his proposal, although he has spoken in support of shutting down the Department of Education, and Republicans proposed an 80-percent cut in 2023 to Title I, which pays teacher salaries in low-income communities, and a 25 percent cut last year.

“You notice a trend here: A lot of these proposals are impacting the most vulnerable students,” said Weadé James, senior director of education policy at the Center for American Progress. “This is really just a pattern of making things worse for those who are already at the margins, and that’s concerning."

The Project 2025 blueprint for Republican governance calls for expanding school choice and turning federal school funding, such as Title I and programs that support students with disabilities into no-strings-attached block grants to states, which experts say would redirect funding away from marginalized communities.

"If we start putting public money in private schools, they become public schools," Gambrel said. "I just don’t think that taxpayer money should be distributed to private schools.

www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-education/

Random comments

**.. He told you exactly what he was going to do! And do away with the Department of Education. When you don't listen you feel. Remember, he said he loves the uneducated. There you have it.

**..This is what rampant hatred, coupled with ignorance and misinformation, gets you. It's incredible to see all these rednecks and Bible thumpers support a person who is only interested in his own self-serving approach to life now beginning to wonder what's going to happen. What does it take to make everyone understand that as soon as Trump gets what he desires, everyone else can take a flying leap? This man will sell out his own family if it benefits him.

Seems like they did vote for that? How can he say they didn’t when it was very plainly talked about during the campaign? Another one of those “I hope he doesn’t do what he says because that sounds horrible” bets?

Koem
Hearing... NOT EXACT WORDS
FF/TFG always cares about the people first specially children... Too bad little boy was running down by an illegal..
me: he sure doesn't care about ALL the children killed and maimed by guns!!

Too many people killed by illegals
Me: how many people killed by others?

She stated she works closely with the tribes for law enforcement...
Me: um she is banded by at least one or two tribes to even step on their properties!!

It went on for too long...

ETA: I just remember something, she did not say it but one of the Republican Senator did in reference to the fire and water situation.
He complained Bout the reservoir that was closed for repairs.

He suggested there is the biggest body of water right off the CA coast. They should have pumped to water to the fires. But the big one was that they should fill all cauldrons etc with water from the ocean..

Does he not realize that they would corrode more quickly with salt water. I guess there would be less vegetation being sprayed with saltwater!

Of course not!!

Long and scary!

Yes, 2 hours of "conversation" should erase over a decade of abuse and idiocy.  FFS.

Bobby also did not know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare. Completely unqualified and didn't bother preparing.

Yes, MAGA, you voted for a man who nominated this dope. This is on you

He also seems to think Lyme disease is something created by the military (recent times). And not naturally occurring and found in mummified remains going back thousands of years.