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Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.

In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use “every available tool” to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including “withholding administrative funds from states” for the first time in history.

There is no single national program for unemployment support, though the federal government partners with state agencies to support temporary financial assistance to out-of-work Americans. Nearly 2 million people are currently receiving those benefits, while roughly 229,000 people are filing initial jobless claims every week, according to the Labor Department.

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[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 4 points 55 minutes ago

Vote for him, places you in financial stress, he pisses the money away, takes more of your money for undefined reasons.

[-] ChetManly@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

He's gotta do something to pay Iran 300b.

[-] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

And still the population will sit behind their screens with their keyboards and sgare a few memes and generally be pissed off and oh look its the next scandal and they population will sit behind their screens and generally be pissed off and oh look its the next scandal of the week...

[-] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Alexa what is a "distraction?"

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago

president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.

Projection much, huh?

[-] mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

Also privilege, Republicans see themselves as privileged, it's not fraud when they do it, they are allowed, it's fraud when others without sufficient privilege do it.

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago

Jokes on them, it's basically impossible to get unemployment here to start with.

[-] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Where is here?

[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 13 hours ago

pls no, this would make the crime rate skyrocket

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That's the idea. Make it so the poor have no choice but commit crimes and then lock them up for it

[-] nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

And then, per the 13th, legal slavery!

[-] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

That's what the federal cabal wants.

[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago

What the fuck are they trying to do? Why would they wanna destabilize the country?

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Peter Thiel and a bunch of the other billionaires want to carve the US up into city states, they’re not particularly secretive about it either. The point is to destroy the country

It’s a quiet revolution most aren’t even aware is going on

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

I look forward to the day people stop thinking it will end in 2028

[-] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 2 points 10 hours ago

Is there any literature on this?

[-] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Project 2025.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

An actual traitor president and it looks like we're just gonna ride it out with our fingers crossed.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Does that equal an amount intended for ballrooms or Iran?

[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 40 points 18 hours ago

What he wants:

  • desperate people who work for scraps
  • riots, so he can call in the military and call off the election

What he (hopefully) gets:

  • a revolution

Seriously, why aren't billionaire villas burning? Why is Mar-a-Lagos still standing? I'm surprised how much the American people are willing to endure.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

I’m surprised how much the American people are willing to endure.

At this point I'm convinced we're the weakest generation of Americans in American history. And the fact that our history really isn't very long doesn't help make that feel any better.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

IMHO it doesn't get any weaker and lower than exterminating indigenous people or owning slaves.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Oh, just book a trip to Florida and burn down Mar-a-Lago. Why hadn't I thought of that before?

[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Have you seen the French protest? I don't say one man should go to there and burn it down, but I would expect big, violent protests there.

[-] gdog05@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The French only have to protest in France. Imagine the French protesting in Moscow. That's the distance from Utah to Florida. Utah isn't even the furthest point from Florida. Tell some Frenchmen to go march on Russia and protest until they get their way. Now picture that playing out.

[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Sure, America is too big for protests 🙄 That's why I didn't just mention M-a-L, but billionaire villas too. Protests at the closes place that makes sense. The white house, your local rich people quarter, Mar-a-Lagos, an ICE facility, the villa of the local Trump supporter,...

If you get enough people together it's hard to ignore. Make the rich fear the people again.

March when never possible, with as many people as possible. And if that fails? General strike.

Sure there were a few "no king" demos, but they ended too soon and protested the wrong places. The ultra rich and Trump himself should feel the heat.

[-] gdog05@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Surely no one will gun you down within 200 yards.

[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

If they start shooting protesters things will escalate. That's how civil wars start.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago

Have to imagine this will disproportionately hurt red states and then they'll blame it on Obama or Biden or something. Really hoping some state will withhold federal taxes but I know our leaders are too spineless for that :[

[-] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

If you take the top 10 states by unemployment rate, half of them are red states. Top 20, almost 3/4.

[-] Haze@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

California funds its own unemployment benefits, of course Trump is too stupid to know this.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

It says they will take funding from states that don't comply with their bullshit so I'm sure the red states will be fine

[-] SippyCup@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Then, magically unemployment will go down and they'll call it a success. Even though all that's happened are fewer people qualifying for unemployment, and more than likely it will result in a net increase in unemployed people.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 4 points 15 hours ago

There's not really a mechanism for withholding federal taxes

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Sounds like something easy to fix, just don’t pay them

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

But by now, everyone either knows or refuses to acknowledge that the President is a notorious pedophile.

A sudden spike in unemployment followed by waves of debt default, foreclosure, and police actions on the unemployed would seem to be the more pressing issue.

This just feels like the Iran "Today's bombing a girl's school distracts from who the President was fucking in 1997" Epstein War bullshit.

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[-] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 31 points 20 hours ago

"Lets do something fast and stupid so they stop talking about me starting and losing a war."

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[-] relativestranger@feddit.nl 29 points 21 hours ago

the "fraud" starts and ends at the oval office. investigate that s.o.b. first.

[-] Poojabber@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

Thats not true. My state governor is also a criminal and is grifting on a state level too...

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago

Check me if I’m wrong but the only thing he can cut is the administration funding. The actual benefits are funded by a type of insurance companies pay into. Trump can’t take that away.
All this will do is make processing claims a bitch.

He’s such a dick.

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 11 points 17 hours ago

I dunno if you've noticed, but he can do anything he wants because there's no opposition.

[-] Leather@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago
[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 34 points 23 hours ago

This is next distraction away from his complete failure in Iran and his green, moldy swimming pool. He's giving $300 billion to Iran in his total surrender, what's the total amount of assistance to be withheld in funding here?

[-] Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Hahaha, do it. I'll get the pop corn.

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[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Beating the wife and the kids at home when he got his ass kicked at the pub.

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