I found confirmation at The New Republic:
Donald Trump doesn’t think the federal government should fund child care, Medicare, or Medicaid.At an Easter Lunch reception at the White House Wednesday, the president told guests what exactly he thought about what the U.S. should be prioritizing, and it doesn’t bode well for the government’s most widely used and popular social programs.“I said to [Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought], ‘Don’t send any money for daycare because the United States can’t take care of daycare.’ That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people,” Trump said. “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it, too. They should pay. They’ll have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up.”“It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country. But all these little things, all these little scams that have taken place, all you have to you have to let states take care of them,” Trump continued.
Imagine what that billion-a-day could do if it were used for something, ANYTHING, other than pointless war.
ReplyDeleteOr a massive ballroom or a triumphal arch or an "America First" award or military parades in his honor or another trip around the moon or just putting his name on multiple buildings. What's it going to cost to redesign the currency so it bears his signature? Are taxpayers going to pay for his commemorative coin with his face on it? Certainly taxpayer dollars will be used for the proposed $1 dollar coin he wants to go into circulation for the semiquincentennial.
ReplyDelete"A separate $1 coin with Trump's face on it could go into circulation, also as part of the semiquincentennial.
The coins, if they are produced, would be the latest push by Trump and his allies to feature his name and likeness on items and buildings of significance, from national park passes and banners to the renamed Trump-Kennedy Center for the Arts."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/03/22/trump-coin-controversy-update/89245184007/
CCL
Thank Dog there was a golden eagle holding up his crib notes when he said that.
ReplyDeleteFYT
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and also: the US forest service is gone, and the leftover husk is moved to the bastion of opposition against public lands, utah.
ReplyDeleteguardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/us-forest-service-washington-dc-salt-lake-city
and a more colourful sketch of what this means, from the more than parks substack: https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders
the man truly is a complete wreck in every metric: intellect, knowledge, morals, and backbone. no sliver of support for his person or agenda exists that is not a declaration of bankruptcy as a person.
raphael
There is a huge difference between what a politician *says* is not possible and what is actually (not) possible.
ReplyDeleteWhat politicians *say* is possible is generally an expression of what they consider desirable as opposed to what can and can not be done.
In this particular case, it just means that the politicians does not think he needs any of these things. Which is kinda true.
I read a Tom Clancy book some years ago, the plot was about a jet plane crashing into the main government building and killing the president and a lot of his administration, leaving Jack Ryan to rise to fame, using his common sense and good heart.
ReplyDeleteImagine that happening.
Who's a modern day, real life, Jack Ryan ?
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/05/dolly-parton-for-president.html
DeleteCommon sense - check.
Good heart - check.
Molly Ivins is dead, or she would be good.
DeleteSome would argue that a dead person would be better than what we have.
DeleteMany, very many would argue that to be the case. Unfortunately Don Donny has been bigly productive in making the candidates.
DeletetRUMP is a pompous ass.
ReplyDeleteSources say he's trying to best HAT-P-2b, too.
Delete??? https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/hat-p-2-b/
DeleteWe had a preview of this in the Days Of COVID when Jared announced the stockpile of masks were not for the states and the feds would not distribute them. We had another preview when Trump killed ACA.
ReplyDeleteBut Eisenhower said it better when he warned against the military-industrial complex.
The majority of people think that the purpose of a country is to support and nurture its citizens. But some of of those people think the support should be proportional to earnings, kind of like a reverse income tax.
ReplyDeleteSo...I take it most of the commenters here believe our tax dollars should pay for peoples childcare? I want free food also, and a free car, free gasoline and free everything. Why not?
ReplyDeleteAh, you're new to America. Welcome! In America "your" tax dollars is something we don't like to talk about. In fact ALL the dollars belong to America, and you're allowed to hold some, briefly. Exceptions are made for corporations, who fund America by paying for their politicians. America's taxes are used to fund low wages. How else would Walmart be able to pay less than a living wage? Because America gives the sla- workers tax credits, and food vouchers. Otherwise a realistic minimum wage might become the de facto minimum and people in jobs that aren't supported by America's tax largesse would wonder why they went to college for ten years (I have seen American college movies and they are all in their thirties!!!) to be making the same amount of money as someone in Walmart does after tax incentives and other funds.
DeleteNothing is free. Corporations take advantage of publicly funded infrastructure, education and the public, but don't want to pick up the costs. They want to pollute and cause harm to the environment, but want government to pay to fix it. Currently, corporations are beneficiaries of 95% of the absolute tax breaks in America when you taken into account how much their pollution is excused, how much they rely on infrastructure and how much America pays to subsidise their employees.
Nothing is free in America. If your childcare is being paid, it's being paid on the back of the labour of everyone, so the children's parents can get out and mow lawns, trim hair and serve coffee instead of sitting at home, typing at a computer, like you.
If you set up the country so both parents have to work to pay rent and put food on the table then, yeah, you better provide childcare and school meals. What would you do, put the children in work houses sorting garbage?
Deletesocial services funded by taxes is how society works when done correctly, yes.
Deleteraphael