• splinter@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    The legislature creates the budget, not the presidency. And the legislature is controlled by Republicans.

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        19 hours ago

        Have you missed the last week of news? The funding was stripped out of the original budget, which had already gone through bipartisan negotiation and had support from both parties, because Trump and Elon Musk coerced their party into rejecting it.

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          19 hours ago

          Ok yes that’s true and I do think it’s a terrible sign on the deathknell of democracy, but how is that different from Trump dictating GOP policy for the last 4 years?