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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump just tweeted that he WON'T be cutting funding to Stars and Stripes
A couple of minutes ago:
Link to tweet
BKDem
(1,733 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,854 posts)Another epic fail from an epic failure.
They thought they could sneak that by.
Of course, defunding a newspaper wouldn't get any coverage, all of it negative.
Man, are they dumb!
highplainsdem
(48,917 posts)grumpyduck
(6,223 posts)but wasn't it him who wanted the paper shut down?
JHB
(37,157 posts)magicarpet
(14,121 posts)From USA Today - Opinion Page
Link below for full article.
As if an attack on the free press were not enough, the Trump administrations rush to shutter Stars and Stripes also raises constitutional questions.
The memo ordering the publications dissolution claims the administration has the authority to make this move under the presidents fiscal year 2021 defense department budget request. It zeroed out the $15.5 million annual subsidy for Stars and Stripes. But Congress, which under the Constitution has the power to make decisions about how the publics money is spent, has not yet approved the presidents request.
In fact, the version the House approved earlier this summer explicitly overruled the decision to pull the plug on Stars and Stripes, restoring funding for the paper.
Pushing back to keep Stars and Stripes
So far, the Senate hasnt acted. But in a letter released earlier this week, 15 members of the chamber, including combat veteran Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and four Republicans, called on Defense Secretary Mark Esper to take steps to preserve the funding prerogatives of Congress before allowing any such disruption to take place.
In a separate letter, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and Trump ally, makes a similar request. As a veteran who has served overseas, I know the value Stars and Stripes brings to its readers, he wrote, telling Esper that shutting down the paper before the Senate acts would be premature.
Much more at link below,
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/09/04/trump-and-stars-and-stripes-attacking-american-icon-column/5706859002/
irisblue
(32,931 posts)I think I've mumbled f that guy at least 25 times today
dweller
(23,613 posts)carry on
✌🏼
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Everyone knows he just caved, big-time.
MAGATs asked for change, they got it. He makes decisions, he gets annihilated in the press, he changes decisions.
Flip. Flop.
sheshe2
(83,654 posts)global1
(25,225 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)Riiigghhttttt.
bbernardini
(9,937 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,075 posts)It's a newspaper. And, you're not fooling anyone with this backpedaling, other than your equally brain-dead cult followers.
malaise
(268,713 posts)It's overbearing
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Just watch.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)and then miraculously steps in to save the day. It's all as phony as he is.
honest.abe
(8,614 posts)Say just the opposite and see what happens.
JHB
(37,157 posts)Link to tweet
@JHB0034
Hey, who says you're out of shape? This is Olympic-level backpedaling! Big League!
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)Put some meat on those "war dead are losers" bones.
Squinch
(50,916 posts)under my bed and face the music. I'll just give her big compliments. Tell her she is the most beautiful girl in the world and I love her so much. That'll shut her up."
lpbk2713
(42,738 posts)Link: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/
It was updated thirty minutes ago and they still say the asshole-in-chief
wants to cut the funding to Stars and Stripes.
And another interesting story with a recent update: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/09/03/report-trump-disparaged-us-war-dead-as-losers-suckers/
JHB
(37,157 posts)That's not exactly communicating through the chain of command.
volstork
(5,399 posts)Folding like a cheap lawn chair.