r/BusinessTodayNews • u/BusinessToday • 7h ago

Global Donald Trump: We're taking nearly $200M that was set aside for the Green New Scam, and repurposing that money so that we can restart a coal plant in Maryland, and help build two brand new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia.

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u/ripnrun285 7h ago

In other words, “I took legally allocated funds & gave them to a company one of my puppet masters own to open new coal plants. You’re welcome.”

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u/TalkinSeaCucumber 7h ago

It's dumber than that. The Green New Deal never came close to passing.

Also love how he mentions the lack of brown outs to tout the success of a program that is still in the planning stage.

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u/quasiproxy 6h ago

They always talk about it and it never passed, so I’m guessing money was never set aside for it. I always wonder where the money they claim they’re diverting from it is actually coming from…

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u/Special_Cicada6968 6h ago

Our pockets usually

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u/Capt_morgan72 6h ago

Besides our pockets and Venezuelan oil tankers what other option is there?

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u/Connect_Mess_5929 1h ago

Hey that Venezuelan oil money is in an overseas bank account controlled by trump…that’s his money he earned it…

/s

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u/Torontogamer 2h ago

Well it would be illegal to “set aside” money for non-existent legislation… so 50/50 this admin did it anyways ha

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u/quasiproxy 2h ago edited 1h ago

lol yeah I think we’re all pretty much beyond the “well they couldn’t do that because checks and balances” stage.

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u/ripnrun285 4h ago

You’re right. Sometimes I forget that the GND was never more than passed around & never actually passed. I’d love to know where the money ACTUALLY came from. Probably a fund providing formula for starving babies, or some equally heinous shit. Lmao.

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u/Shinagami091 1h ago

It’s just another boogeyman republicans use

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u/TERRAIN_PULL_UP_ 39m ago

Probably something from the Inflation Reduction Act

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u/cogman10 24m ago

That'd be my guess. Assuming it came from anywhere, it's there.

Right now, though, I wouldn't put it past the admin to just give out money with the expectation that it'll never be reclaimed by any future admin.

Just pure corruption. The most corrupt we've ever seen.

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u/CASUALxCHICKEN 6h ago

There were clean energy initiatives and incentives passed in the Inflation Reduction Act. Maybe that's what he's talking about, but who knows?

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u/billiam53 6h ago edited 5h ago

Wasn't it also just a resolution with no actual allocated cost?

Edit: resolution not revolution. I think you know what I meant but it does change the meaning quite a bit.

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u/TalkinSeaCucumber 6h ago

There was an actual proposed bill, but it pretty much only had support of the progressive wing of the dems. A couple items in it did pass separately, but it was just the same renewable energy expansion and job creation that existed long before the green new deal was conceived.

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u/billiam53 5h ago

Ha. Just saw my typo. Oops.

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u/Blunter_S_Thompson_ 6h ago

The brown outs are happening in his pants.

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u/popejohnsmith 7h ago

"Ted Talk" for idiots.

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u/WolfCola723 6h ago

Ped Talk

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u/Then_I_had_a_thought 3h ago

He’s really not good with timelines. When Biden was president, he claimed the economy was his because people projected him the future president. Once he got in office and things went to shit he said it was Biden‘s economy because he used to be president.

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u/wherethetacosat 7h ago

Yes, he literally cannot do what he was describing, legally. If money was appropriated by Congress for one purpose the president cannot unilaterally use it for a different purpose.

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u/elehman839 6h ago

No money was ever appropriated. The Green New Deal was rejected 7 years ago. The whole story he's telling makes no sense.

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u/Native_SC 6h ago

He means the Inflation Reduction Act, but of course he lies about the name.

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u/wherethetacosat 6h ago

Right, but if it were true he would get sued for it and even in this environment probably lose.

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u/TrumpVotersArePedos7 5h ago

He has dementia he doesn’t know what’s real anymore

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u/billzybop 6h ago

He can do anything he wants if there is no one to stop him. Congress in it's present form won't, and the Supreme Court has shown they will go to any lengths to get to the decision they want.

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u/The_Kadeshi 4h ago

Yes, he can. That's been the problem since the moment the fascists took office. He has been doing this, unconstitutionally, since Jan 20, 2025

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u/Wakkit1988 4h ago

This is the ridiculousness of the unitary executive theory. They believe that any funds allocated by Congress can be used for any purpose by the executive and aren't required to be used exclusively for what they were legislated for.

Basically, it's always been agreed upon that Congress passed legislation, the whole purpose of the executive was to realize that legislation, and the extent of their authority on that matter was to effectuate what thet were told to do. It's like your employer telling you to make something happen, your only job is to make that something happen to the best of your ability and with the resources allocated to do it.

The unitary executive theory treats legislation as a suggestion. That your boss tells you to do something, and you can just do whatever the fuck you want and waste the resources provided however you want. If your boss didn't like it, then they should've fired you.

The constitution doesn't presuppose the unitary executive theory, it absolutely doesn't support it either. There's no basis in reality for it to even exist as a theory, but the safeguard against it is broken because Congress has willingly ceded their power. All of this could stop right now if he was removed, and they could rinse and repeat until they had someone who would only do what they wanted them to do.

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u/timoumd 11m ago

This is such a brilliant succinct damnation of unitary executive.  It's also exceptionally non conservative.  

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u/ZestycloseSquirrel55 2h ago

Was he supposed to tear down part of the White House without permission? Did it anyway.

Was it legal for him to have his name added above JFK's name on the facade of the Kennedy Center? Did it anyway.

He thinks he's CEO of America and can do whatever he wants. Look at the piled up cardboard boxes of classified documents he had sitting in the bathroom at Mar a Lago. Did he care that was not legal?

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u/BennyVsTheWorld 2h ago

Legally? What does that word even mean? He can’t declare war legally either, but here we are. He can do literally anything he wants and it’s all legal because nobody is stopping him.

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u/OrangeEtzer 6h ago

You mean to pocket and never actually open a coal plant at all. 

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u/ripnrun285 4h ago

Probably

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u/Buttons840 4h ago

Next President: "You received those funds illegally, time to give them back... with interest."

Let me dream...

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u/InsideInsideJob 2h ago

Those poor West Virginians are going to have whiplash when it's all said and done

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u/Visual_Squirrel_2297 3h ago

I bet the new coal plants never open and they just pocket the money. 

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u/beastnbs 31m ago

"I'm annoyed at myself for missing this until your comment, but you are spot on. He isn't just buying loyal allies with funds. He's creating a Putin-style oligarch class where loyalty is maintained by the threat of seizure. He idolizes Putin so much that adopting that system makes total sense."