#2025-budget

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Income Tax Budget 2025 : 12 लाख करमुक्त उत्पन्न आणि त्यापेक्षा जास्त उत्पन्न असल्यास कर कसा मोजला जातो?

[glitzbot]

Blitz continues to struggle with his spending... for a different reason now

[youreonyourown-kid]

Okay I know award shows are silly but Flow just won best animated motion picture at the golden globes and I love that it’s getting recognized 🥹 it’s really such a beautiful film I hope this inspires more people to give it a chance

[robobrainrot]

Badge of Honor for all my fellow Bots & Cons that braved the hour+ wait to get @plushi 's merch

[saywhat-politics]

Multiple groups call on Senate to reject Vought nomination

Groups oppose Trump's nominee for OMB director

[russellius]

2025 CHINESE GP | Saturday

[martyr-mayhem]

Please call your Representatives and Senators TODAY to let them know that you are looking to them to vote NO on the Republican budget proposal, and that you will stand behind them for standing strong, even if a government shutdown results.

Republicans will need Democratic votes to pass anything, but instead of negotiating in good faith, they’re pushing a MAGA budget disaster. On Saturday, House Republicans introduced a new continuing resolution (CR) that would run through the end of the 2025 fiscal year.

Their proposed long-term CR would slash essential programs, attack basic rights, and – worst of all – hand unchecked power over federal spending to Trump, Elon Musk, and their billionaire allies.

Democrats must not fold. They must stand firm and publicly demand a government funding deal that:

1. Guarantees there won’t be any extreme funding cuts in essential programs and any MAGA poison pills attacking abortion rights, LGBTQ+ protections, and immigrant communities

2. Guarantees real, ironclad protections to stop Trump and Musk from hijacking federal spending. The lawlessness must end.

We need to communicate to our Members of Congress our insistence that they vote AGAINST the Republican CR. They need to hear from us because they’re undoubtedly feeling pressure to vote for it. They know that Republicans and some of the media will try to pin the blame for a government shutdown on Democrats if the CR doesn’t pass. We need to let our MOCs know that we will stand behind them for their vote against that CR, even if that means a temporary government shutdown.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

John Knefel at MMFA:

A new memo issued by the Trump administration directing the federal government to temporarily cease disbursing billions of dollars in funds appears to draw on arguments made by Russ Vought, the president’s selectee to run the Office of Management and Budget. Vought was a primary architect of Project 2025, a sprawling effort organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and staffing recommendations for President Donald Trump’s second term. In addition to that role, Vought is also the founder of the Center for Renewing America, a MAGA-aligned think tank that has spent over a year arguing that the president can unilaterally refuse to spend funds allocated by Congress, an authority known as the impoundment power that was severely curtailed by Congress in 1974.

The new Trump administration memo was issued by Matthew Vaeth, acting director of OMB pending Vought’s confirmation vote. The document calls for federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.”  “The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve,” the memo states. Although the two-page memo doesn’t use the term impoundment, law professor Steve Vladeck argued that the Trump administration is claiming “the unilateral power to at least temporarily ‘impound’ tens of billions of dollars of appropriated funds—in direct conflict with Congress’s constitutional power of the purse, and in even more flagrant violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.” The existence of the document was first reported by journalist Marisa Kabas and later confirmed by The Washington Post and The New York Times. (OMB issued a follow-up memo claiming the freeze does “not apply across-the-board” and withheld funds are “not an impoundment under the Impoundment Control Act.”)

The direct effects of the memo are unknown given its scope and vagueness, but they could be detrimental even if the pause is short-lived.

“Experts said the memo as written was poised to bring a rapid halt to scores of federal functions, from assistance to homeless shelters to financial aid for college students,” the Post reported. “Health grants distributed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and state aid for disaster reconstruction, might face delays.” The memo appears to exempt Social Security and Medicare recipients, and it says the halt “does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.” It isn’t clear whether Medicaid recipients will be affected, although some early reports indicated that payments had been disrupted.

Project 2025 architect Russ Vought had his handprints all over the federal funding freeze.

See Also:

HuffPost: The 50-Year-Old Law Trump Is Challenging To Create Chaos

The Guardian: Trump move to pause federal loans and grants rooted in Project 2025

Ahmed Baba: Trump’s Funding Freeze Power Grab Causes Chaos And Legal Firestorm

[ghettogardener]

I decided to take a serious social media break after the tiktok ban. I was devastated by the ban, then equally devastated that it became trumptok upon return.

I deleted it off my phone. I do have rednote, but it's not the same. I deactivated facebook and instagram. I am done.

I refuse to be sucked into an anxious angry hole for the next four years, like I was for his first four. I am terrified of the future now, so I have to take a break.

Instead of spending my time scrolling, I am focusing on learning new things, spending time with family and friends, experiencing life.

Here is what I've done so far!

I got a breadmaker for xmas. I am having the most fun with this thing! I have made four loaves so far, three white bread and one cinnamon raisin.

I joined Costco for the savings of bulk buying, and I have a new appreciation for cooking at home.

I am taking it back to basics, depression era shit. Baking bread, making hearty beef and bean soups, Rice and beans based dishes aplenty!

I look forward to dusting off my camera and going out into nature. I am excited to finally finish the half dozen craft projects I have started. I am itching to get my seeds planted indoors, in preparation for the spring.

We will survive a trump presidency. We just have to look inward. Stick together. We got this!

[venonat13]

HANAKOU WEEK 2025

DAY 3 - SWAP AU

its not rlly clear but its a amame/mitsuba swap so like the photography stuff is swapped with astronomy

ignore how inconsistent the drawing style is

[wundrousarts]

Doing my annual New Year’s rewatch of About Time and thinking about Domhnall Gleeson as Jupiter North and how heartbreaking it will be when some other rando is cast instead….. 😔

[emmafallsinlove]

so apparently nintendo announced nintendo switch 2 today and i asked for nintendo switch oled for my birthday and i don’t know if i should wait for 2 or just request the oled version as i planned

[shamballalin]

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin's Rebuttal To President Trump's Speech March 4, 2025

Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan is delivering the Democratic response to President Trump’s speech before the joint session of Congress. Slotkin’s response began after Mr. Trump wrapped his speech, which was the longest speech of his kind. Slotkin was elected in November after representing Michigan in the House since 2019, and replaced long-serving Sen. Debbie Stabenow in the Senate. The…

[sanewshimachal]

वित्त मंत्री निर्मला सीतारमण ने आज संसद में बजट पेश किया है I इंफोग्राफिक के जरिए समझिए बजट के बाद कौनसी चीज़ें हो जाएंगीं सस्ती

[gwydionmisha]

Democrats grill Project 2025 co-author over ‘illegal’ Trump funding move

Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget, is a Project 2025 person with absolutely disastrous plans. He plans to purge the civil service on political grounds and replace honest non-partisan people with right wing extremists as part of implementing autocracy. he also plans to overthrow Congress' power to allocate funds by illegally preventing the disbursement of Medicare, Social Security, EBT, Housing, Education, etc. funds in order to destroy the social safety net. He will likely get away with it as the SCOTUS are so in the bag for kleptocratic fascist autocracy that they've been declaring black letter parts of the constitution un constitutional and thrown out ideas like precedent and rule of law. This guy is terrifying and he's barely getting any coverage or notice.

Please contact your Senator.

If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

[stayxsomnia]

I appreciate the Step Out videos for letting me know how much money to set aside for skz each year.