#2025-budget

[imdnews1]

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

[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

[figurecollection]

Miku Hatsune Very Happy Ita Bag ver. by FuRyu, of Vocaloid

[saywhat-politics]

Multiple groups call on Senate to reject Vought nomination

Groups oppose Trump's nominee for OMB director

[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!

[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….. 😔

[originalleftist]

Democrats in the Senate stayed in secession overnight to oppose and stall to the confirmation of Russell Vought of the Heritage Foundation, a main author of Project 2025, as head of the Office of Management and Budget.

When the vote was finally held, they broke Senate rules against continuing debate by each stating the reasons for their No vote as they cast it.

They could not stop the approval of Vought, who was confirmed by the Republican majority in a straight party-line vote.

But not one Democrat broke ranks this time. Not. One.

You probably won't hear much about this unless you follow political news closely, and you certainly won't hear it from the "Do nothing Dems" crowd trying to get you to stay home or "protest vote".

So I'm sharing it here.

There is resistance. Those in power just want you to think that there isn't.

[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

[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

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lisa Needham at Public Notice:

As soon as Trump won the election, Republicans immediately declared he had a mandate to do whatever he wanted. Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, for example, said Trump’s win showed that “it is the Trump agenda that the American people overwhelmingly wants.” But what, exactly, did the American people signal they wanted? With lots of help from the media, Trump spent the campaign pretending that the hyper-conservative and deeply unpopular Project 2025 agenda was not the blueprint for his second term. So it’s pretty rich now for Republicans to claim that a vote for Trump is a vote for whatever he decides he wants to do. And make no mistake — what Trump wants to do is Project 2025. 

Before digging into the steps Trump is taking to force the worst of Project 2025’s personnel and policies on the country, let’s tackle that whole mandate question first. Besides the fact that the Trump campaign deliberately obscured some of its most consequential policy goals to win votes, there’s the fact that his victory is proving far less decisive than it initially appeared. As votes have continued to be counted, Trump’s popular vote margin is going to be less than two percent, smaller than Hillary Clinton’s popular vote win in 2016 and in fact the smallest popular vote margin since 2000. Declaring you have a mandate doesn’t make it so, but it is The Republican Way going back to George W. Bush.  Back to Project 2025. Despite lying about it throughout the campaign, Trump wasted no time appointing several of the project’s authors to key positions in his new administration. Because they’ve been steeped in hypocrisy for so long, Republicans see nothing odd about Trump embracing Project 2025 after feigning a complete lack of familiarity and having called it “ridiculous and abysmal.”  Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought, who led the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during Trump’s first term, got caught on tape saying the quiet part out loud during the campaign when he told undercover reporters to trust that Trump would implement a national abortion ban if he returned to power, despite his public statements to the contrary. But far from being rapped on the knuckles for linking Trump to a stance he ostensibly opposed, Vought has been rewarded by getting his old OMB job back. 

Besides being one of Trump’s abortion-whisperers, Vought is going to be instrumental in executing Trump’s plan to strip federal workers of job protections and replace them with hard-right partisans who see their only job as executing Trump’s wishes. Vought won’t stop there, though. He’s said we’re living in a “post-constitutional” time, which for Vought apparently means that Trump gets to turn the military on protestors and to cut spending whether Congress agrees or not. If this sounds to you a lot like an imperial presidency, of deforming the whole of the federal government to make it solely a weapon to implement Trump’s desires, you’re not wrong. And Vought is by no means alone in being one of the Project 2025 denizens who Trump is ushering into high-level government positions.

[...]

If nothing but these few Project 2025 goals were achieved, we’d have a radically partisan and unstable federal workforce, media regulation driven by which companies show the most allegiance to Trump, public schools that are more starved of funding than ever, decreased oversight of colleges and universities, and Medicaid that would be harder to obtain and keep. Trump has no mandate for these things because he not only didn’t campaign on them but he denied any link with Project 2025 at all. But because of the trifecta voters gave Republicans, they are likely to happen nonetheless. Democrats spent months trying to highlight the links between Project 2025 and Trump, only to have both sides of that equation and some mainstream media outlets insist it was fearmongering to make those connections. It wasn’t, and it isn’t. Project 2025 was always the blueprint for a second Trump administration, and these appointments are just the beginning.

Donald Trump sold a lot of his voters a bad bill of goods, and his supporters falsely insinuate that a majority of the country supports the Orange Felon and Project 2025’s agendas.

[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.

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

this year has been So Much that i haven't even been able to settle my brain down long enough to fully post about why it has been So Much, so i'm proud of myself for just making it through and doing my best (even if i'm years behind on projects and movie reviews with no air in sight).

but at the same time, making it through the year also means i now have more credit card debt than a year's worth of my disability benefits? so that's...less good.

[petula-xx]

Where are the 2024 No Spend Challenge attempters????

There's a lot of videos out there at the moment from people gearing up for their '2025 no spend challenge'.

I can't seem to find any videos though from people reviewing the results and outcome of their 2024 no spend challenge.

If you did a NSC in 2024 then I'd be interested to know about it and how you went. I'm sure lots of people would. Any links to videos of people reviewing their 2024 NSC are welcome too.

Hearing your brilliant plan is not as valuable as knowing your actual result.

So, class of 2024, where are you and how did you go????