We Are Having A National Emergency!

Meanwhile, the Trump Loyalists have been changing the way our courts of law operate.

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BREAKING: Senate Republicans just confirmed Eric Miller to a lifetime seat on the 9th Circuit. Miller is officially the first judicial nominee EVER confirmed over the objections of both home-state senators. This is a big deal – and deeply shameful. #courtsmatter

2:35 PM - 26 Feb 2019

“We get a lot of bad court decisions from the 9th Circuit, which has become a big
thorn in our side,” Trump said.

Trump has previously criticized the 9th Circuit as well as federal judges whose decisions he dislikes. But his tweets on Thursday accusing federal judges of imperiling US security and calling out Chief Justice John Roberts represent yet another extraordinary breach of presidential protocol and demonstrate Trump's frustration with judges who have ruled against his administration's most controversial policies.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/22/politics/trump-chief-justice-john-roberts-judges/index.html

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington), spoke in opposition to the nomination of Eric Miller to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a speech on the U.S. Senate floor on Tuesday.

"He has spent much of his career fighting against the interests of tribal governments and tribal sovereignty," Cantwell said of Miller, who was nominated for a spot on the appeals court by President Donald Trump.


Cantwell noted that the Senate Committee on the Judiciary has handled the nomination in an unusual fashion. During the last session of Congress, the panel held a confirmation hearing for Miller during a recess period, when almost every member was away from Washington.

https://www.indianz.com/News/2019/02/26/audio-sen-maria-cantwell-on-trump-nomine.asp

Senate Abandons Century-Old Tradition In Confirming 9th Circuit Nominee


https://www.opb.org/.../washington-senate-ninth-circuit-nominee-objections-vote/
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Senators voted 53-46 to confirm Eric D. Miller, a Seattle lawyer, to the bench over the objections of both Washington's U.S. senators.

Ending a hundred year's tradition.

Rotten sneaks, waited until nearly everyone traveled to their home states. They held the vote during a recess. Home state sentors held the power to block a judicial nominee from their state.

bodysong said:

Meanwhile, the Trump Loyalists have been changing the way our courts of law operate.

The Leadership Conference
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BREAKING: Senate Republicans just confirmed Eric Miller to a lifetime seat on the 9th Circuit. Miller is officially the first judicial nominee EVER confirmed over the objections of both home-state senators. This is a big deal – and deeply shameful. #courtsmatter

2:35 PM - 26 Feb 2019

“We get a lot of bad court decisions from the 9th Circuit, which has become a big
thorn in our side,” Trump said.

Trump has previously criticized the 9th Circuit as well as federal judges whose decisions he dislikes. But his tweets on Thursday accusing federal judges of imperiling US security and calling out Chief Justice John Roberts represent yet another extraordinary breach of presidential protocol and demonstrate Trump's frustration with judges who have ruled against his administration's most controversial policies.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/22/politics/trump-chief-justice-john-roberts-judges/index.html

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington), spoke in opposition to the nomination of Eric Miller to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a speech on the U.S. Senate floor on Tuesday.

"He has spent much of his career fighting against the interests of tribal governments and tribal sovereignty," Cantwell said of Miller, who was nominated for a spot on the appeals court by President Donald Trump.


Cantwell noted that the Senate Committee on the Judiciary has handled the nomination in an unusual fashion. During the last session of Congress, the panel held a confirmation hearing for Miller during a recess period, when almost every member was away from Washington.

https://www.indianz.com/News/2019/02/26/audio-sen-maria-cantwell-on-trump-nomine.asp

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Meanwhile, the Democratic leadership is busily planning their NEXT abuse of courts overturning President Trump's next, as yet unannounced EO.

That's right, folks. They don't even know what it is but they've got boilerplate court documents to strike it down.

Not sure if they decided to activate a Clinton era judge or an Obama judge this time.

Across the Capitol, the U.S. Senate confirmed Eric Miller to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That vote was 53 in favor to 46 against.

The nomination was controversial for several reasons. Both senators from Washington, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, spoke against the nomination. Cantwell objected to the practice of ignoring the “blue slip” tradition, which allows home-state senators to have input in judicial selections.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said it was the first time that the Senate had ignored the blue slip tradition.

The National Law Journal said: "Miller’s confirmation marks another win for conservatives, who have aggressively pushed to confirm judges over Democratic complaints about processing picks. Under the Trump administration, 31 federal appeals court nominees have been confirmed."

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountryt...inst-tribes-for-court-M5wdDvVeo0u1nI7qvr6t_Q/

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington), spoke in opposition to the nomination of Eric Miller to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a speech on the U.S. Senate floor on Tuesday.

"He has spent much of his career fighting against the interests of tribal governments and tribal sovereignty," Cantwell said of Miller, who was nominated for a spot on the appeals court by President Donald Trump.

"He has argued against tribal fishing rights, challenging tribal sovereignty, and fighting against the protection of Native American religious and traditional practices," said Cantwell, who serves on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.

As an attorney in private practice, Miller has represented a slew of clients who worked to undermine tribal rights. Tribes in Washington state, along with the National Congress of American Indians, are opposing his nomination

Cantwell noted that the Senate Committee on the Judiciary has handled the nomination in an unusual fashion. During the last session of Congress, the panel held a confirmation hearing for Miller during a recess period, when almost every member was away from Washington.

https://www.indianz.com/News/2019/02/26/audio-sen-maria-cantwell-on-trump-nomine.asp

Keep 'em coming! We need to get as many GOOD judges in place as possible in Trump's remaining six years.

Let's get at least two more SCOTUS picks in there too!

bodysong writes: "Senators voted 53-46 to confirm Eric D. Miller, a Seattle lawyer, to the bench over the objections of both Washington's U.S. senators."

gunthernehmen writes: "Keep 'em coming! We need to get as many GOOD judges in place as possible in Trump's remaining six years."

This is all excellent news for our nation!

The same two Senate Democrats from Washington state who swallowed Christine Blasey-Ford's crude, unsubstantiated lies about our nation's newest U.S. Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh don't seriously deserve to have their wishes respected by the full U.S. Senate!

President Trump was fortunate to add to his senate majority in 2018, as this will ALSO make it that much easier to confirm his next appointment to our nation's highest court. And a special thanks to former Senate Democratic Majority Leader Pat Leahy for first using the nuclear option to get Barack Obama's judicial nominees passed!

The last days of the February Edition of Our National Emergency

Wed., Feb. 27, 2019

WASHINGTON—Donald Trump was asked Friday why he hasn’t condemned the apparent election fraud committed by Republicans in North Carolina’s 9th congressional district.

Trump did not respond directly. Instead, he said, ”Well, I condemn any election fraud."




President Donald Trump had his meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday.

It is now the month of March, in the year 2019


March 15 is not far away.
The Ides of March is approaching.

Julius Caesar dismissed the call for a Republic.
Julius Caesar had serious opposition from his own political party.
It was early days.
44 B.C.


Trump ignores the call for a Democracy.
Beware the Ides of March.

President Donald Trump has reiterated plans to veto a resolution that would
terminate his declaration of a national emergency.

Senate opponents of President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border moved within a hair Thursday of having enough votes to prevail, and one Republican suggested he could face a rejection by the GOP-led chamber if he doesn’t change course.

Trump's move would "turn a border crisis into a constitutional crisis," veteran Sen. Lamar Alexander said on the Senate floor.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2019/02/28/senate-foes-trump-border/

How many constitutional crisises does that make, now ?

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Will be speaking at CPAC at 11:30 this morning. Record crowd, live broadcast. Enjoy!

5:40 AM - 2 Mar 2019

Results ?

The Trump Loyalists now have a new official word, direct from the mouth of their idol.

"Bullshit."

"You put the wrong people in a couple of positions ... and all of a sudden they're trying to take you out with bullshit," Trump said.


(That is perfectly reasonable, considering that the Trump empire, and the Trump Loyalists party, is built on bullshit. Sadly, bullshit is destroying the very real fabric of Democracy.)


https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/trump-speaks-at-2019-cpac-live-updates/

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Trump to attend March 10 fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago

8:12 PM - 28 Feb 2019

It is Kabuki Theatre, these days.

bodysong said:

The last days of the February Edition of Our National Emergency

Blah blah blah

It is Kabuki Theatre, these days.

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You know this isn't a democracy, right?

And why wouldn't he veto the chuckleheads that try to cancel our his declaration? Wouldn't you in his place?

Update, on Trump's Preferred National Emergency

Meanwhile, hard hit counties are having weather related emergencies that are killing people.

March 6, 2019

The Trump administration is lobbying Republican senators—or, depending how you look at it, begging them—to vote against the resolution opposing his national emergency declaration.


washingtonpost.com


Senate GOP leaders have given conflicting answers about how many military construction projects would be protected from the emergency declaration, although Republicans have said money for such projects could be “backfilled” at a later time. McSally’s potential Democratic challenger, astronaut Mark Kelly, has called the emergency declaration “Washington at its worst.”

“Republicans like Susan Collins, Thom Tillis and Cory Gardner vote with President Trump more than 90 percent of the time, and if they dip a toe out of line they get steamrolled by the Republican base,” said Lauren Passalacqua, spokeswoman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “These politicians say one thing then do another and keep showing the moderate voters who decide elections why they can’t be trusted.”

Kirstjen Nielsen takes a page from Blade Runner 2049, and seeks to prove that she is Trump's Very Best Replicant Replacement for a Human Being, The Very Best and Most Ruth-less Heartless, Numbest, Angel of All.

She defends Trump's lies, uses some lies of her own.

Because scoff-law is for winners, now.

Fuck your stupid Democrat laws.

(Until faced with a prison term, for telling lies to Congress.)

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la...land-security-house-panel-20190306-story.html

Nielsen’s testimony came during a hearing in the House Homeland Security Committee, the highest-profile clash between the Trump administration and the House panel since Democrats took control of the chamber. It was one of three border-security-related hearings Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

Several heated exchanges between Nielsen and Democrats boiled down to a debate over semantics.

Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) said the practice of separating children from their parents was an administration “policy,” while Nielsen called it “law.”

Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said detained children were put in “cages,” while Nielsen said they were put in areas “carved out for their safety and protection.”

Just as Mrs Coulter sold herself to The Authority, and betrayed everything a human being should be, Kirstjen Nielsen sold herself to the Trump Alliance.

"Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiosity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion or sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth."

Looks like the bots are spreading...

Here comes the weekend!

It is Friday.

Did the Trump Loyalist party do something horrible to American citizens, yet ?


A resolution against hate speech, passed 407-23 on Thursday.


Why did 23 Republicans vote against condemning hatred and bigotry?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...inst-condemning-hatred-bigotry/?noredirect=on

Republicans were very angry that the resolution didn’t condemn hate against people like them: white Christians. You know, America’s most disadvantaged and discriminated-against group, in the victim-mentality minds of powerful white Christian Republicans.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...hateful-expressions-of-intolerance-Here-s-why

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Where’s the outrage over the 23 GOP members who voted NO on a resolution condemning bigotry today?

Oh, there’s none?

Did they get called out, raked over, ambushed in halls and relentlessly asked why not?

No?
Okay.
Got it.

8:22 PM - 7 Mar 2019

The House Of Representatives Passed A Broad Anti-Hate Resolution After Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Comments About Israel

Paul McLeod

buzzfeednews.com


The House of Representatives passed a resolution denouncing anti-Semitism and many other forms of hatred Thursday, after days of internal Democratic Party clashing over whether Rep. Ilhan Omar was being unfairly targeted for comments she has made about Israel and supporters of Israel. Twenty-three Republicans, however, ultimately voted against the measure while all Democrats, including Omar, supported it. The final vote was 407-23 with one Republican member voting "present." (Steve King ?)

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What an utterly bizarre backfire. This was supposed to be awkward for Democrats because it was an unofficial rebuke of Rep. Ilhan Omar. Yet in the end Omar voted to condemn anti-Semitism and 26 Republicans (and counting) voted not to.

2:31 PM - 7 Mar 2019

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Donald Trump currently has:

- No Secretary of Defense
- No Secretary of the Air Force
- No FEMA Director
- No Secretary of the Interior
- No UN Ambassador
- No White House Chief of Staff
- No White House Communications Director
- No clue

10:24 AM - 8 Mar 2019

January 6, 2019

“I like acting. It gives me more flexibility. Do you understand that? I like acting. So we have a few that are acting. We have a great, great Cabinet,” Trump said.

(At the beginning, the Republicans said that we should not be concerned about Trump holding the ultimate office, because of all responsible and experienced people surrounding him. Now, most positions are held by people that have no experience, and show no signs that they take their responsibilities seriously.)

What would it take, for the complacent Trump Loyalist zombie fog to lift at the White House ? Putin must be very pleased. The USA is not united.

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23 House Republicans voted against the anti-hate resolution via @NBCNews: Biggs Brooks (AL) Buck Budd Burgess Cheney Collins (NY) Conaway Crawford Duncan Gohmert Gosar Graves (GA) King (NY) LaMalfa Massie Palazzo Rogers (AL) Roy Steube Walker Yoho Zeldin

2:55 PM - 7 Mar 2019

NBC News coverage provided the numbers.

http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/ar...oman-attacked-by-jaguar-at-wildlife-world-zoo

"Woman crossed barrier, attacked by jaguar"

Maybe we can just get a few hundred jaguars to patrol the border barriers.

bodysong writes: "23 House Republicans voted against the anti-hate resolution"

Seriously? Somebody actually named it the "anti-hate resolution?" That's hilarious! It would appear that the only hatred currently being tolerated by today's Democrats is the hatred of Jews (also known as "anti-Semitism") as has been crafted by that party's growing Islamic representation in Washington, D.C. WHY do you suppose it is that all Muslims in congress today belong to the Democratic Party?

Oh yeah, the Democratic Party ALSO tolerates (and even encourages) hatred directed at our president (and at his supporters). Will any of this help them in 2020? VERY DOUBTFUL. The modern Democrats are seemingly copying the strategy that worked so very well for them in the presidential election of 1972, when they lurched hard-left and made George McGovern their party's candidate.

phrodeau writes: "Maybe we can just get a few hundred jaguars to patrol the border barriers."

I prefer the idea of a border wall, phrodeau. So do MOST Americans who treat border security as a serious issue. But Democrats are far more interested in getting illegals over here & registered to vote. It's one of the reasons why their party so vehemently opposes voter photo-ID laws!

Dumpington said:

So do MOST Americans

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No they don't.

Dumpington said:

bodysong writes: "23 House Republicans voted against the anti-hate resolution"

Seriously? Somebody actually named it the "anti-hate resolution?" That's hilarious! It would appear that the only hatred currently being tolerated by today's Democrats is the hatred of Jews (also known as "anti-Semitism") as has been crafted by that party's growing Islamic representation in Washington, D.C. WHY do you suppose it is that all Muslims in congress today belong to the Democratic Party?

Oh yeah, the Democratic Party ALSO tolerates (and even encourages) hatred directed at our president (and at his supporters). Will any of this help them in 2020? VERY DOUBTFUL. The modern Democrats are seemingly copying the strategy that worked so very well for them in the presidential election of 1972, when they lurched hard-left and made George McGovern their party's candidate.

phrodeau writes: "Maybe we can just get a few hundred jaguars to patrol the border barriers."

I prefer the idea of a border wall, phrodeau. So do MOST Americans who treat border security as a serious issue. But Democrats are far more interested in getting illegals over here & registered to vote. It's one of the reasons why their party so vehemently opposes voter photo-ID laws!

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Which barrier design would you favor? Show me one that can't be defeated by a person armed with a shovel, ladder, rope and cordless reciprocating saw.

phrodeau writes: "Which barrier design would you favor? Show me one that can't be defeated by a person armed with a shovel, ladder, rope and cordless reciprocating saw."

Alcatraz Island was as close to being inescapable as a prison could possibly get, phrodeau, yet in June of 1962 such an escape was successfully carried out by inmates Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin. Alcatraz had walls, armed guards, and San Francisco Bay, and yet it was "still defeated," wasn't it?

So WHY do we continue to build prisons will walls that can be breached by people armed with shovels, ladders, ropes, etc.? Why not just accept that fact that some prison inmates will escape and stop trying to build something that works? You seem to believe that border security can NEVER be achieved, so we may as well allow illegals to pour into our country and begin voting for those Democrats promising them taxpayer-funded freebies!

Actually, our border walls are NOT the same as prison walls. They are an effort to keep people from openly violating our nation's immigration system. Despite the Democratic Party's constant admonitions that America is a racist, sexist nation run by a brutal tyrant, hundreds of thousands of black, hispanic, & white people from all over our planet want to come and live in Trump's America, entering here LEGALLY OR ILLEGALLY!

Meanwhile, NOBODY is trying to sneak into Cuba or Venezuela, where socialist government policies have been put in place forcing the wealthiest one-percent to pay their fair share! I repeat: Trump's America? YES! Socialist Cuba and socialist Venezuela? HELL, NO!

Dumpington said:

phrodeau writes: "Which barrier design would you favor? Show me one that can't be defeated by a person armed with a shovel, ladder, rope and cordless reciprocating saw."

Alcatraz Island was as close to being inescapable as a prison could possibly get, phrodeau, yet in June of 1962 such an escape was successfully carried out by inmates Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin. Alcatraz had walls, armed guards, and San Francisco Bay, and yet it was "still defeated," wasn't it?

So WHY do we continue to build prisons will walls that can be breached by people armed with shovels, ladders, ropes, etc.? Why not just accept that fact that some prison inmates will escape and stop trying to build something that works? You seem to believe that border security can NEVER be achieved, so we may as well allow illegals to pour into our country and begin voting for those Democrats promising them taxpayer-funded freebies!

Actually, our border walls are NOT the same as prison walls. They are an effort to keep people from openly violating our nation's immigration system. Despite the Democratic Party's constant admonitions that America is a racist, sexist nation run by a brutal tyrant, hundreds of thousands of black, hispanic, & white people from all over our planet want to come and live in Trump's America, entering here LEGALLY OR ILLEGALLY!

Meanwhile, NOBODY is trying to sneak into Cuba or Venezuela, where socialist government policies have been put in place forcing the wealthiest one-percent to pay their fair share! I repeat: Trump's America? YES! Socialist Cuba and socialist Venezuela? HELL, NO!

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dude, over 90 per cent of illegal immigrants enter the country legally

unless the wall has wheels and immigrant detection software its an insanely expensive failure

Warren Gunnels
@GunnelsWarren

Over the next 10 years, Trump's budget would cut: -
$1.5 trillion from Medicaid -
$845 billion from Medicare -
$25B from Social Security -
$207B from college education -
$220B from food stamps

While base defense spending would increase by $861 billion

8:56 AM - 11 Mar 2019

President Trump on Monday will request at least $8.6 billion more in funding to build additional sections of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, setting up a fresh battle with Congress less than one month after he declared a national emergency.

In Trump’s annual budget request to Congress, he will request $5 billion in funding for the Department of Homeland Security to continue building sections of a wall, three people briefed on the request said. He will request an additional $3.6 billion for the Defense Department’s military construction budget to erect more sections of a wall.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...eec1e6-4342-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html


The president's budget calls for a
23 percent cut in State Department funding
a 15 percent cut in spending by the USDA
a 31 percent cut in the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency.

The budget for Homeland Security would increase by 7.4 percent

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/11/702171200/trump-seeks-more-border-wall-funding-in-new-budget

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This is totally backwards. Instead of providing the stable, consistent funding the Pentagon needs, the #TrumpBudget continues to use Overseas Contingency Operations shell games, preventing DoD from investing long term in technologies needed to deter adversaries around the world.

1:46 PM - 11 Mar 2019

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It is downright irresponsible to propose wasting billions more taxpayer $ on a medieval border wall while slashing funding for education and Medicare + reducing investments in science, renewable energy and infrastructure. This proposal is #DOA

1:46 PM - 11 Mar 2019

The Third Rail

Do Not Touch

Mother Jones
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Donald Trump just made it official: He wants to cut Medicare by 10%

1:13 PM - 11 Mar 2019

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Trump's big fat budget has arrived and it's a nightmare for everyone except the wall

3:01 PM - 11 Mar 2019

Trump's 2020 Budget

No funding for the Medicaid expansion.

Trump's 2020 budget includes $846 billion in Medicare cuts for the next 10 years, significantly more than the $494 billion he wanted to cut last year. The proposed budget calls for nearly $1.5 trillion in cuts for Medicaid over the next 10 years, with $1.2 trillion of that to be diverted into block grants starting in 2021. What's more, it would eliminate the Medicaid expansion funding under the Affordable Care Act, essentially repealing the program in the three dozen states that took expansion.


Most of the Medicare cuts would be on the provider side, targeting supposed "fraud and abuse" and cutting payments to hospitals. Cuts would also affect payments for prescription drugs. These are not direct benefits cuts, but could make it more difficult for seniors to find care.


Not content to make life more difficult for poor people, the Trump budget also goes after people with cancer. It proposes cutting the National Institutes of Health budget buy $4.5 billion in 2020. That includes $897 million from the cancer institute.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...s-poor-elderly-cancer-patients-in-2020-budget

Trump proposes big cuts to health programs for poor, elderly and disabled

Charles N. “Chip” Kahn III, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, which represents more than 1,000 for-profit hospitals and health systems, said the budget “imposes arbitrary and blunt Medicare cuts. . . .The impact on care for seniors would be devastating.”

“Instead of building a stronger, healthier nation, President Trump’s budget would take away Americans’ health care and devastate the pillars of economic security for seniors and families,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...e42a56-440c-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html

Feckless First Cunt Ivanka will get $100 million dollars, and someone else will do the actual work

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...on-to-program-for-women-that-ivanka-launched/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/trump-budget-2020/


The funding will come through the U.S. Agency for International Development, which initially set up a $50 million fund for the effort using already budgeted money. The initiative will also be supported by programs across the government, as well as private investment.

Trump has previously sought to cut USAID’s budget.

The White House also is expected to announce that the president will nominate Kelley Eckels Currie to serve as an ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues. That position, established under President Barack Obama’s administration, had been vacant since Trump took office.

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/03/08/ivanka-trump-womens-fund