# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 11, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068 "2024-11-11T06:19:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 300
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6042 "2025-06-21T23:50:31Z")
Apparently, we just bombed Iran: > Thank you for your attention to this matter. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6043 "2025-06-22T00:09:19Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Apparently, we just bombed Iran: And now we get to play the fun game of waiting to see if what he bleated is actually in any way true. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6044 "2025-06-22T00:33:43Z")
But, but, but that can’t be happenning; it can’t be true. After all, he just got nominated for the Noble Peace Medal, nobody’s ever deserved it as much as he does, etcera. How many Iranians have died because of this? How many Iranians and Americans will die because of this? The cabinet isn’t ever going to take action to remove him from office. The current congress certainly isn’t going to. We have to wait until November next year to elect a congress with the fortitude to do the right thing. ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6045 "2025-06-22T00:37:22Z")
Trump can just kiss his Nobel Peace Prize hopes goodbye!!! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6046 "2025-06-22T00:45:03Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > And now we get to play the fun game of waiting to see if what he bleated is actually in any way true. Even the NYTimes headline says that trump **SAYS** we dropped bombs. Did we for real? Who knows? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6047 "2025-06-22T00:46:28Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Even the NYTimes headline says that trump **SAYS** we dropped bombs. Did we for real? Who knows? Trump says so… I will wait for confirmation from a **reliable** source of information. ---
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6048 "2025-06-22T00:48:41Z")
The Zionist lobby says ‘Jump’ and Trump says how high. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6049 "2025-06-22T01:10:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Apparently, we just bombed Iran: Colour me an old fuddy duddy, but I’m not totally happy with Truth Social being the official record of events. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6050 "2025-06-22T01:12:47Z")
> [@natureboy](#): > > The Zionist lobby says ‘Jump’ and Trump says how high. Not a high bar to surpass… As Trump showed when the police tear gassed and expelled people protesting in Lafayette plaza in Washington during his first administration. Trump found what the plans about what was coming from the police and approved by others. Then he commandeered military and other people in his administration to come out with him after the police had cleared the space. In Lafayette plaza, he got even military guys to come out with him to the church to raise the Bible and sing praises to himself, to get the appearance that he and the military were involved, to show how a “strongman” he is. Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff then, called the move a “mistake” and said that his presence “created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.” For Trump, it was a move like when he appeared in charity events… where other rich guys gave money and he did not. Well, it is very underwhelming now to see Trump telling us what a great strongman he is against Iran when the Israelis already got the air superiority for us beforehand. ---
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6051 "2025-06-22T01:22:02Z")
I wonder if Trump did this as a performative token to Israel and the pro-Israel lobby and is hoping that’s the end of it, both in terms of satisfying the pro-Israel faction and also hoping that Iran ‘gets it’ and doesn’t retaliate by slamming US military personnel in the region. I don’t think Trump wants a war; I think Israel clearly does. At some point, something’s got to give. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6052 "2025-06-22T01:40:53Z")
The only end-game I see for Israel-Iran is conflict, which necessitates trump’s approval (and later on congress - if they still exist) and perhaps the United Nations (if they still exist). It has been curious how trump has stayed out of escalating with countries who really will fight back (Russia, Iran, China). It’s not wisdom, diplomacy (both learned after fifth grade). It’s certainly not TR’s “Talk softly yet carry a big stick” as even on the latter point he’s never (TMK) ever said anything like, “You want a carrier group off-shore and 20,000 Marines on your beaches?” Maybe he just does not understand War. Or the cost of War. You start bunker-busting the fuck out of Iranian mountains, they will deliberately retaliate against USA bases and kill USA troops. Why would Iran not do this? They are a force to be reckoned with. ---
**Author:** ![natureboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@natureboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natureboy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6053 "2025-06-22T01:42:57Z")
The UN and EU are dead to us. They don’t factor for shit. Indeed, we’ve been wanting to shift our focus to Asia, but we can’t because we’re pinned down in a losing effort in Ukraine and we’re in danger of being pinned down in another potential losing effort in the ME. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6054 "2025-06-22T02:12:18Z")
My first thought was also that his Nobel Peace prize is looking less likely. There is also reporting that Iran may have already moved their enriched uranium to alternative sites. Meanwhile, I listened to his blissfully short speech and my takeaway is that Tulsi Gabbard isn’t long for this Administration. Also he referred to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as”Raising Cain” which made me have to google his actual name. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6055 "2025-06-22T02:19:54Z")
You guys are so wrong about Orange Shitstain’s perspective. “I bombed the Ennemie! I deserve the Noble Peace trophy!” 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6056 "2025-06-22T02:21:00Z")
I thought that troll natureboy was already banned. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6057 "2025-06-22T02:21:38Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3coxrP3wbd4/maxresdefault.jpg "The Marx Brothers - This Country's Going To War") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3coxrP3wbd4&t=85) ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6058 "2025-06-22T03:32:25Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > You guys are so wrong about Orange Shitstain’s perspective. “I bombed the Ennemie! I deserve the Noble Peace trophy! I disagree. There is something distinctly non-Kissinger (back when the USA had a Sec of Defense) about trump. Threatening people (like contractors - “I’ll sue you in court”) and of course something weird about his consistent-two week warnings. Yet if he was truly fuck East-NATO (there are two NATO’s now) Greenland would be USA territory and the UN would wag a finger. Denmark might mind a bit - yet who they gonna call on? To perhaps back off on my prior assertion that he does not know “The cost of war” maybe he does understand. It’s no credit - yet trump 45 & 47 have not nearly been as belligerent as either Obama or Clinton - let alone Cheney/W. You can say words to the effect of threatening Iran, and even call a fortnight delay before actually doing anything - yet once you put the B-2’s and bunk busters in place and Iran responds like in 20 minutes and American Troops are targeted and die, now you’ve got a war and less of a chance of a resort in Gaza. I cannot buy into trump playing the “long game”. Actually, what leader/general has ever done so? Eisenhower _had_ to get D-day going not because of Rommel’s wife’s birthday or the weather, but because a shitload of angry Russians were out for revenge after winning at Stalingrad and they wanted at least Germany and Poland. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068/6059 "2025-06-22T05:52:29Z")
[Wow. Thanks to the felon, China is the voice of reason today.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-warns-world-not-peace-105929866.html) > [@](#): > > Iran’s friends don’t like the war decimating Tehran, but they’re not ready to join the fight against Israel and potentially the U.S. > > Instead, [Russia](https://time.com/7295939/russia-iran-israel-us-war-nuclear-catastrophe-trump-putin-khamenei/) and now China have urged deescalation, emphasizing the dangerous consequences the escalating conflict could have on the whole world. > > “If the Middle East is unstable, the world will not be at peace,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday. “If the conflict escalates further, not only will the conflicting parties suffer greater losses, but regional countries will also suffer greatly.” > > “The warring parties, especially Israel, should cease fire as soon as possible to prevent a cycle of escalation and resolutely avoid the spillover of the war,” Xi added. [Anyone want to bet that this didn’t have anything to do with the felon’s latest foolish move so he can be a “wartime president”?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-issues-grave-warning-trump-140220416.html) > [@](#): > > Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Saturday that [if the U.S. were to get involved](https://time.com/7295726/netanyahu-trump-israel-iran-nuclear-strikes/) in [the Israel-Iran conflict](https://time.com/7295798/new-middle-east-time-cover/), the result would be “very, very dangerous” for everybody. > > “The tweets, interviews by the U.S. President, [it’s] quite clear that he’s talking about the U.S. leadership on these questions [of a potential U.S. involvement],” [Araghchi told reporters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXJEX4aWZ0E). “Unfortunately, we have heard that the U.S. may join in this aggression. That would be very unfortunate and I think that would be very, very dangerous for everybody.” [Deputy Chief of Staff spends his time bitching and moaning to congressional aides about, you guessed it, “illegal aliens”!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-miller-driving-congressional-aides-050230053.html) > [@](#): > > Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is so involved in every aspect of the Trump administration’s efforts to radically reconfigure American democracy that congressional aides have reportedly begun complaining about his incessant phone calls. > > Ignoring the fact that his “outreach wasn’t always welcome,” Miller would call congressional aides for lengthy, aimless conversations about illegal immigration that contained no specific requests, according to a damning [new _Wall Street Journal_ report](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/stephen-miller-trump-immigration-c1e0e924?mod=e2tw). [The felon is now pretending he’s made some kind of amazing deal with Harvard.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-teases-mindboggingly-historic-deal-010143996.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump announced on Friday afternoon that a potential deal with Harvard University was imminent just as a federal judge blocked his ability to prevent the school from admitting international students. > > In the [post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114717387393069944), published to Truth Social, Trump wrote, “Many people have been asking what is going on with Harvard University and their largescale improprieties that we have been addressing, looking for a solution. We have been working closely with Harvard, and it is very possible that a Deal will be announced over the next week or so.” Next week or so, huh? He forgot how to say _two_! [And now Japan won’t even speak with the “master negotiator”.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/japan-scraps-us-meeting-washington-213421652.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Japan has canceled an annual high-level meeting with key ally the United States after the [Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/people/donald-trump/) administration demanded it spend more on defense, the Financial Times reported on Friday. > > Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had been expected to meet Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in Washington on July 1 for the yearly 2+2 security talks. > > But Tokyo scrapped the meeting after the U.S. asked Japan to boost defense spending to 3.5% of gross domestic product, higher than an earlier request of 3%, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. > > Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported on Saturday that President Donald Trump’s administration was demanding that its Asian allies, including Japan, spend 5% of GDP on defense. Now this is hilarious. [“Proud Boys” say they won’t support the felon.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/proud-boys-trump-lose-support-194510275.html) > [@](#): > > Turns out, there’s a line the Proud Boys say they won’t cross for President Donald Trump. > > The extremist group said on social media this week that it wouldn’t be able to support the president if the U.S. were to become involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran. > > “If the United States gets directly involved in the Israel-Iran conflict, the voters that voted for Trump because there was a hope that Trump was America First can no longer support Trump,” the Proud Boys account [posted to Telegram](https://t.me/ProudBoysUSAunrestricted/141) on Wednesday. “America First does not mean war for Israel. Donald Trump, focus on the health of our nation, period. We are crumbling. We are crippled with debt with no plan for a solution. Be the President you ran as.” [Evidently, there’s now a way for international students to again apply for visas to study in the United States: _toss away any and all privacy_.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-international-student-visa-030001598.html) > [@](#): > > International students hoping to matriculate at American colleges and universities will soon be able to again apply for a visa — but only if they make their Instagram, Facebook, X, and other social media profiles public. > > Last month, [the Trump administration halted the scheduling of new visa interviews for foreign students](https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-halting-foreign-student-visa-180307717.html)to develop its expanded online screening process. > > This week, [the U.S. State Department announced](https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/06/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-visa-applicants/?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=news_bar&utm_campaign=visa) that “our overseas posts” will soon resume scheduling F, M, and J nonimmigrant visa applications. [Congresssional flacks ~~jerk him off~~ applaud him; Democrats point out reality.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/congressional-leaders-react-trump-ordering-010100487.html) > [@](#): > > Congressional leaders expressed surprise Saturday night about President Donald Trump’s[announcement](https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/israel-iran-live-updates/?id=122881565&entryId=123081310) he had ordered a U.S. attacked on three Iranian nuclear sites, with some Republicans praising the move and some Democrats questioning the president’s authority. > > South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, an [Israel](https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/israel) hawk, said in an X post moments after Trump announced the attack that it was “the right call.” > > “The regime deserves it. Well done, President @realDonaldTrump,” he said. “To my fellow citizens: We have the best Air Force in the world. It makes me so proud.” > > But the top Democrat in the House, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, said Trump had “misled the country.” > > “Donald Trump promised to bring peace to the Middle East. He has failed to deliver on that promise. The risk of war has now dramatically increased, and I pray for the safety of our troops in the region who have been put in harm’s way,” he said in a statement. > > “President Trump misled the country about his intentions, failed to seek congressional authorization for the use of military force and risks American entanglement in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East,” he continued. > > “First, the Trump administration bears the heavy burden of explaining to the American people why this military action was undertaken. Second, Congress must be fully and immediately briefed in a classified setting. Third, Donald Trump shoulders complete and total responsibility for any adverse consequences that flow from his unilateral military action,” he added. [The warmonger-in-chief has a list of why he deserves…no, I can’t say it.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-lists-reasons-deserves-nobel-155203990.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump posted a laundry list of reasons why he believes that he should get a Nobel Peace Prize. > > In a [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114717932061341718) post, the president celebrated that he was “very happy” to report on a series of deals and agreements to end global conflicts that he “won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for.” The post came on the heels of Pakistan’s announcement that they plan to nominate him for the 2026 award, _The Hill_ [reported](https://thehill.com/policy/international/5361923-pakistan-trump-nobel-peace-prize/). > > “I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between India and Pakistan, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between Serbia and Kosovo, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for keeping Peace between Egypt and Ethiopia (A massive Ethiopian built dam, stupidly financed by the United States of America, substantially reduces the water flowing into The Nile River),” Trump wrote on Friday. “And I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for doing the Abraham Accords in the Middle East which, if all goes well, will be loaded to the brim with additional Countries signing on, and will unify the Middle East for the first time in ‘The Ages!’” > > He added, “No, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do, including Russia/Ukraine, and Israel/Iran, whatever those outcomes may be, but the people know, and that’s all that matters to me! WTF is “The Ages”? [The felon is deluded and tries to scare off the press.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-issues-grave-warning-reporters-214921467.html) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump delivered a stark warning to a group of reporters interviewing him at an airfield in New Jersey, telling them they were “in danger.” > > The president was fielding questions about Israel’s conflict with Iran after announcing on Thursday that he had given himself a two-week deadline to decide on whether to attack Iran. > > “Are you worried Iran’s proxies would wage terror attacks against American targets abroad if you order military action?” a reporter asked. > > “We’re always concerned about that, and we have to take them out and be very strong,” Trump began, before his response took a seemingly dark turn. > > “You’re even in danger talking to me right now,” he said. “Do you know that? You are in danger talking to me right now, so I should probably get out of here. But you guys are actually in danger. Can you believe it?” [A real leader, Governor Newsom, challenges the traitor-in-training.](https://www.aol.com/news/california-gov-gavin-newsom-challenges-183113795.html) > [@](#): > > California Gov. Gavin Newsom challenged Vice President [JD Vance](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/jd-vance) to face off in a debate. > > “Hey @JDVance — nice of you to finally make it out to California. Since you’re so eager to talk about me, how about saying it to my face? Let’s debate. Time and place?” the Democratic governor said in a Friday [post](https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1936209621846565101) on his @GavinNewsom X account. > > So far, the vice president has not replied on the social media platform to Newsom’s challenge. [Remember how the felon kept blathering how he could stop the war in Ukraine?](https://www.aol.com/putin-says-whole-ukraine-ours-163811252.html) > [@](#): > > Russian President[Vladimir Putin](https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/vladimir-putin/) suggested during an economic forum that the “whole of Ukraine” belongs to his country, even though Russia only controls about a fifth of Ukrainian territory. > > He made the comments on June 20 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, where he also indicated that he wouldn’t “rule out” taking the northern Sumy region, which Russian troops have been rapidly advancing into in recent weeks. The regional capital of 250,000 people is located just over a dozen miles from the Russian border. [And finally–to nobody’s surprise–the felon’s plan violates Senate rules.](https://www.aol.com/gops-food-stamp-plan-found-175136133.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (AP) — In another blow to the [Republicans’ tax and spending cut bill](https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-breaks-bill-medicaid-80b5781377bcd0870a1dccb3c7b8dc05), the Senate parliamentarian has advised that a proposal to shift some [food stamps](https://apnews.com/article/food-stamps-snap-states-trump-2c604216d26a9edf84fe502136be6d6f) costs from the federal government to states — a centerpiece of GOP savings efforts — would violate the chamber’s rules. > > While the [parliamentarian’s rulings](https://apnews.com/article/bills-impeachments-bernie-sanders-electoral-college-minimum-wage-8893a3f95038cac51ba66066554bcd20) are advisory, they are rarely, if ever, ignored. The Republican leadership was scrambling on Saturday, days before voting is expected to begin on [President Donald Trump’s](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) package that he wants to be [passed into law](https://apnews.com/article/congress-tax-cuts-trump-f2c60ae5c7c1313de69446f9ac7176e6) by the Fourth of July. > > The loss is expected to be costly to Republicans. They have been counting on some tens of billions of potential savings from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, to help offset the costs of the [$4.5 trillion tax breaks plan](https://apnews.com/article/big-beautiful-bill-trump-tax-spending-cuts-78fabe42ae09e0c5ac692a92dca8af5b). The parliamentarian let stand for now a provision that would impose new work requirements for older Americans, up to age 65, to receive food stamp aid. > > “We will keep fighting to protect families in need,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, which handles the SNAP program. > > “The Parliamentarian has made clear that Senate Republicans cannot use their partisan budget to shift major nutrition assistance costs to the states that would have inevitably led to major cuts,” she said. Have I mentioned already that we are well and truly screwed? Nay, the entire planet’s populace is. ---
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I am 100% confident a major contributor to Trump’s decision to attack was his dissatisfaction with the fierceness of the military display in the recent parade. He’s been brooding on his unhappiness for days, and that fed into this. ---
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> [@psychobunny](#): > > I listened to his blissfully short speech Got to appreciate the shoutout at the end - “we love you God!”. Couldn’t start a war without you buddy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=299) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-1/1010068.md?page=301)