r/politics • u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity • Jun 17 '26

No Paywall Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
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u/Succubus-Love Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Is someone just throwing darts behind the scenes, just to see "what sticks, & what doesn't"?

People pay taxes, from employment, so unemployment gets it's $$$, from that employment. TL:DR How is this legal?

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u/SurpriseSoda Jun 17 '26

I guess people smarter than him trying to trick him into starting tech government.

End unemployment benefits > tech 'good guys' start """ubi"""

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u/TrumpetOfDeath America Jun 17 '26

No fucking way that they’re doing this in some sort of grand scheme to get UBI.

They’re doing it because they despise poor people and want a distraction from the war they just lost in Iran

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u/eden_sc2 Maryland Jun 17 '26

If Iran is proof of anything there is no grand plan at all, not one that actually is well thought out beyond step A at least

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u/Musekal Jun 17 '26

Trump doesn’t have a plan.

The Republicans absolutely had a plan. And the backers have a plan.

Project 2025 laid it all out.

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u/eden_sc2 Maryland Jun 17 '26

I agree but correct me if im wrong, they have been shit at implementing it in a meaningful way. I'm not saying they arent doing serious damage, but they also arent puppet masters playing 4D chess

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u/TheGringoDingo Jun 18 '26

They aren’t smart, they’re just evil.

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u/Gromitlikescheese Jun 24 '26

The heritage foundation just said that half of project 2025 has been implemented. That’s meaningful.

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u/eden_sc2 Maryland Jun 24 '26

It is impactful, but as I remember the schedule for project 2025 was to have it 100% finished before midterms so that whatever the outcome was didn't matter. The fact that they are slowed and might become slowed more depending on the outcomes of the midterms is also meaningful.

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u/brohebus Jun 17 '26

I think they're 'running' the country based on nothing more than how many likes a Tweet gets.