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Living in the World of Not Imagining Consquences
These people really think they're going to rule forever
mister mix
October 02, 2025
Of all the disgusting things that Republicans have done in the past 9 months, this is up there:
The Trump administration has canceled nearly $8 billion in funding for climate-related projects in primarily Democratic-controlled states, a top administration official said on Wednesday.
The move came hours after the same official, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, revealed that the Trump administration had frozen about $18 billion in federal funding to two major infrastructure projects in New York City.
“Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left’s climate agenda is being cancelled,” Vought wrote in a post on the social media site X, on the same day the federal government shut down after Congress did not pass a stopgap funding bill.
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Vought said the projects affected by the decision are in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state.
Acts like these bring up the “shoe on the other foot” problem — what happens when Republicans are in the minority and Democrats have the majority? The states that were cut off from funding are generally states that contribute more to the federal government than they get back. So, if Democrats ever get power again, the implict assumption of these kinds of acts is that we’re going to keep ignoring that our states fund red states and continue to send them federal dollars no matter how they vote.
I don’t advocate punishing red states, where plenty of Democrats live, but there are many other actions that can target Republicans that we should be threatening. They’re all “illegal,” but so many illegal acts have happened in the last few months that the word has lost all meaning. What if we decided that big Republican donors were ineligable for federal contracts? What if we decided that aiding and abetting rescission — taking back funds lawfully appropriated by Congress — was a crime with a few year lookback period?
These people have all violated the law, willingly, gleefully and repeatedly. They deserve some consequences, or at least to worry about what consequences might be waiting for them.
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