01/30/2025

Thank you Google for interfering!

The Democrat Mad Hatters are having a tough time processing so many changes – it is above their pay grade. They still don’t want to accept the fact they werenot/are not following the Constitution. They want the Repub’s to follow it – but not them.

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Va. Gov. Youngkin says voters asked for Trump disruption as fallout continues© Tom Brenner/For the Washington Post

RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) had a message early Wednesday for everyone claiming President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again, on-again freeze on trillions of dollars in federal spending would create chaos:

Get over it — this is what people want.

“The steps that President Trump is taking are steps … that he told everyone he was going to do and received a massive, massive vote of confidence by the American people to do,” Youngkin told reporters at an event rolling out Virginia school test scores.

A few hours after he spoke, the White House rescinded the memo on the freeze. A little after that, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that actually, the freeze is still coming.

Youngkin’s office did not respond to a request for comment about the changing status. But other officials around the Washington, D.C., region — most of them Democrats — expressed deep concern about the disorienting day.

“America is left with great uncertainty, fear and anxiety,” Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Maryland) said at a joint appearance with three other Democratic members of Maryland’s congressional delegation.

“I think the White House doesn’t seem to even be clear in its own direction,” D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) said. “Clearly, they’re responding to the fact that people in every state — red, blue and purple — are all outraged at the effort to stop funding for everything from clean water to drink to people’s health care to roads and bridges.

Leaders in Maryland, the District and Virginia say the uncertainty around federal funds is complicating their efforts to prepare budgets for the coming year. The area is heavily dependent on federal spending, contracting and jobs, so had already been reeling late Monday when the White House budget office issued its freeze on federal grants and loans.

With reports mounting Tuesday that Medicaid portals had closed in most states and with universities, transportation systems and health care advocates warning that they could be severely affected, a federal judge on Tuesday delayed the freeze until Feb. 3. Nonprofit groups, businesses and some states prepared legal challenges.

Then — well, then came Wednesday, when the freeze was off and then back on.

“We are continuing to watch unrestrained chaos and contradictory guidance from this White House, adding to the confusion and fear that Marylanders are feeling right now,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. “The White House needs to clearly articulate their commitment to spending money constitutionally appropriated by Congress.”

“This is priceless,” Virginia HousSpeaker Don Scott (D-Portsmouth) wrote on X moments after news broke that the freeze had lifted. “Republicans — especially, Governor Youngkin — spent all day twisting themselves into pretzels defending Trump’s disastrous decision. And then — bam — it gets rescinded. Eventually, everyone who ties themselves to Trump ends up looking like a fool. Stand by for more chaos.

Youngkin had scolded critics of the spending freeze, saying that officials who complained about Medicaid being blocked or expressed fears about funding for veterans and economic development were spreading “misinformation” and were “fundamentally wrong” for doing so.

Youngkin said he had called the White House both Wednesday morning and Tuesday afternoon and received assurances that payments to individuals and such programs as food stamps and Medicare would not be affected by the freeze. Trump’s action, he said, was part of the “fiscal responsibility” that voters wanted.

The governor also defended Trump’s plan to shrink the federal workforce, as did other Republican politicians, including Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland). The White House sent out emails this week encouraging civil service employees to resign and be paid through September, cautioning that any who did not take the offer could still be subject to layoffs.

Youngkin argued that the Trump White House is likely to make “incremental” spending increases in areas such as defense, national security and intelligence that will benefit Virginia, which has one of the highest concentrations of federal employees and contractors in the country.

But, he added, “I do think that there could be some pressure in other areas that could result in some Virginians losing their positions.” Youngkin said the state’s economy is strong enough for any laid-off workers to find another job.

“There may be some disruption to Virginians along the way, and I am very empathetic to those concerns,” Youngkin said. “But I also want to make sure that folks understand that there is opportunity, too. And we can get through this.”

Scott, in an interview with The Washington Post, accused Youngkin of failing to advocate for his constituents. “For our governor to stand by while the president takes away the livelihoods of Virginians is a shame. And most Virginians should be disgusted that their governor won’t stand up to the president of the United States and say you’re wrong,” Scott said.

Republican lawmakers in Virginia have not often invoked Trump in this year’s session of the General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, and with Virginia voting for Vice President Kamala Harris last fall by 6 points. On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah), one of Youngkin’s key allies in the General Assembly, said he hasn’t kept up with the twists and turns of the federal spending freeze or workforce cuts because he’s too busy legislating.

“I’ve heard a whiff of it,” Gilbert said in a brief interview. “But World War III could break out while we’re in session and I wouldn’t k now it because I’m focused on what we’re doing here.”

Meagan Flynn, Jenny Gathright and Katie Shepherd in Washington contributed to this report.

Democrat voters need to make a change in their reps who are more representative of a Democrat not DEI/WOKE folks and the fact they have over stayed their understanding of the Constitution.

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