Today is deadline to respond to ICR for NAEP data collection including removal of #CIPSEA protections, given reductions in staffing at @nces. Please write to #omb and let them know that these data are important and should be protected by CIPSEA: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202410-1850-002
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The #legislation is the first request by the #Trump admin for #Congress to TAKE BACK MONEY IT ALREADY APPROVED through annual spending bills. The bill reflects a list of cuts totaling $9.4 billion that were requested by #RussVought’s #OMB. The bulk of the cuts—$8.3 billion—are to #ForeignAid programs addressing global #PublicHealth, international #disaster assistance & #hunger relief.
#AmericanAutocracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #law
"Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz defended President Trump’s 'big, beautiful bill' over criticism that millions of people could lose health coverage, saying those who would face new work requirements should 'prove that you matter.'"
Work reporting requirements decrease Medicaid coverage, which the GOP needs to pass tax cuts for billionaires.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5334508-dr-oz-medicaid-cuts-work-requirements/
#healthcare #medicaid #insurance #ACA #CMS #HHS #TaxCuts #OMB #CBO
Perhaps for that reason, some #Republicans in Washington are now making even more audacious claims. On CNN over the weekend, #OMB Dir #RussVought insisted that “no one will lose coverage as a result of this bill.” Likewise, #JoniErnst, a #Republican senator from Iowa, recently told voters at a town hall, “Everyone says that #Medicaid is being cut, people are going to see their benefits cut; that’s not true.” After one attendee shouted, “People will die,” Ernst replied, “We all are going to die.”
Russell Vought is Big Evil.
Trump Official Backpedals as Wild ‘Trauma’ Plot Exposed
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-budget-chief-russell-vought-backpedals-as-wild-trauma-plot-exposed/
This is the current director of #OMB Russell #Vought’s raison d’etre #Project2025
#CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From #DataBrokers
#RussVought, acting director of the #Consumer Financial *Protection* Bureau, [also #OMB director & #Project2025 architect] has canceled plans to more tightly #regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive #PersonalData.
#Trump #law #InfoSec #privacy
https://archive.is/2025.05.14-170523/https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-kills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers/
The communications director for the White House Office of Management & Budget
Before joining the #Trump admin as the communications director for the #OMB, #RachelCauley served on the board of the #PatriotFreedomProject. The nonprofit group was founded in direct response to the arrest of Hale-Cusanelli on #Jan6 charges.
“We look forward to working with you to restore public access to apportionment data in accordance with statute,” they wrote.
The letter was signed by Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma & Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the #Republican chairs of the #House & #Senate #appropriations cmtes, & the 2 senior #Democrats on those panels, Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut & Senator Patty Murray of Washington.
The top 2 #Republicans & #Democrats on the congressional #appropriations cmtes are quietly protesting the #Trump WH’s decision to take down a special website tracking federal #spending, escalating a battle between #Congress & Trump over spending powers.
In a previously undisclosed letter sent last month to #RussVought, the director of #OMB, the lawmakers questioned the rationale for shutting down the website, which they & advocacy groups said was a violation of the #law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/congress-white-house-spending-website.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=30672882-2D82-4825-873C-8B1419420A2B
https://www.wonkette.com/p/musk-brings-out-big-balls-so-people
Musk Brings Out Big Balls So People Will Stop Talking About How His Own Company Wants To Fire Him
#doge #BigBalls #Coristine #elonmusk #nazi #elon #fascist #musk #usaid #cfpb #irs #omb #treasury #TeslaSexyLLC #TSLA #Tesla #nasdaq #uspol #usgov #politics #gov #government #foxnews #fauxnews #propaganda #us #coup #usa #junta #JesseWatters #watters #trump #maga #gop #gqp #corruption #grift #kakistocracy
Ok y'all...I was going to take a rainy, lupus flare day and try to ignore the world and paint for a while, cause if the sun is out, I got too much stuff to do and then I'm too tired when the sun goes down. But then...my news feed blared at me like Pete Hegseth had just texted me war plans (again), and I saw the new #TrumpsterFire #budget....and are you fucking kidding me with this?
According to the #OMB summary, Trump's 2026 budget would cut over $4.5 billion from Title I and K-12 education programs, $4 billion from a program that provides heating assistance to low-income households, $2.4 billion from safe drinking water funding, $26 billion from rental assistance programs, $17 billion from the National Institutes of Health, $100 million from environmental justice programs, $1.3 billion from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( #NOAA ), and $4.6 billion from the Labor Department.
Oh, and TRILLIONS in tax cuts to the wealthiest humans.
Read #Trump's #budget proposal & its cover letter by #OMB director / #Project2025 architect #RussVought.
#Senate Democratic Leader #ChuckSchumer (NY) on Friday called Trump’s 2026 budget a “gut punch” to #families.
The budget proposes a $163 billion cut to federal spending next year, which would eliminate more than a fifth of the non-military spending excluding mandatory benefit programs.
#Trump is set to propose $163 billion in cuts to non-defense #DiscretionarySpending for the 2026 fiscal year in what's known as a "skinny budget" Friday.
The cuts are for spending #Congress authorizes each year—which does not include spending on safety nets like #Medicare, #Medicaid & #SocialSecurity.
The cuts…represent a 22.6% cut in projected #spending for the current fiscal year [as if costs weren’t going up]. They were confirmed by the White House #OMB….
#USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384318/trump-budget-cuts
§6 General Provisions [notably this puts #OMB Dir & #Project2025 architect #RussVought essentially in charge]
“the functions of the Director of the Office of Management & Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or #legislative proposals.”
#Trump #ExecutiveOrder #law #immigration #ConstitutionalCrisis #SeparationOfPowers #Federalism #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
President #Biden rescinded the order after he took office, but after taking office again in Jan, #Trump signed a new EO reinstating & renaming it.
Trump & his allies laid the groundwork for a new admin stocked w/ #loyalists. #ScheduleF was a significant part of that plan.
Many of the Trump allies who pushed for Schedule F now have key roles in the admin, including Dpty Chief of Staff #StephenMiller & #OMB Dir #RussVought.
#law #labor #CivilService #Project2025 #autocracy #AbuseOfPower
#Project2025’s #RussVought, #Trump’s director of the Office of Management & Budget [#OMB], previously endorsed an end to the federal #voucher program. He [falsely] wrote in 2022 that the #Section8 program in particular “brings with it crime, decreased property values, & results in dependency & subsidized irresponsibility.”
#law #aporophobia #classism #caste #EconomicDiscrimination #LowIncome #families #RentalAssistance #housing
Concerning for space traffic management and the potential for space debris generation: the U.S. federal 'budget blueprint' would also end #TraCSS (Traffic Coordination System for Space) as we know it: “The #OMB document … proposes a transfer of the Traffic Coordination System for Space to a nonprofit or a private sector partner, which could be a boon for Elon Musk’s #SpaceX.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/white-house-plan-guts-noaa-climate-research-00286408
Concerning for space traffic management and the potential for space debris generation: the U.S. federal 'budget blueprint' would also end #TraCSS (Traffic Coordination System for Space) as we know it: “The #OMB document … proposes a transfer of the Traffic Coordination System for Space to a nonprofit or a private sector partner, which could be a boon for Elon Musk’s #SpaceX.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/white-house-plan-guts-noaa-climate-research-00286408
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