The Daily Populous Thursday April 3rd, 2025 night edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by thenewrepublic

“The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, in that it is not going anywhere because the House will never approve it and I, as your President, will never sign it,” Trump said. “Why are they allowing Fentanyl to pour into our Country unchecked, and without penalty. What is wrong with them, other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly known as TDS?”

Trump and his allies have frequently accused anyone that critiques their work of being mentally ill, effectively undermining the legitimacy of critical thought in the groupthink of his already sycophantic base.

“Who can want this to happen to our beautiful families, and why? To the people of the Great States of Kentucky, Alaska, and Maine, please contact these Senators and get them to FINALLY adhere to Republican Values and Ideals,” Trump said. “They have been extremely difficult to deal with and unbelievably disloyal to hardworking Majority Leader John Thune, and the Republican Party itself. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

2_Spicy_2_Impeach on April 2nd, 2025 at 18:12 UTC »

> At 7:09 pm on the same day, Acting Commissioner responded, stating: “Please cancel the contracts. While our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child.”’

So actual weaponization of the government that Republican idiots claim to hate. Always projection.

What’s even more wild with this statement is them giving up the game. They don’t actually care about fraud, they just want blind fealty. They’d rather have fraud and pay criminals with tax payer money, than give it to folks who are entitled to it because someone said something mean about Trump.

2a_lib on April 2nd, 2025 at 17:40 UTC »

Headline makes it sound like a mean-yet-legal political move against an individual, when really it’s an unlawful, frontal assault on the people of Maine.

thenewrepublic on April 2nd, 2025 at 17:36 UTC »

> Lawmakers are calling on the Social Security Administration chief to resign after internal emails revealed that the administration shut Maine off from the late-age insurance program in retaliation for publicly defying the MAGA agenda.

> Representative Gerry Connolly called Tuesday for the resignation of Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner of social security. In a release, Connolly’s office shared emails sent by Dudek in which the DOGE acolyte inquired to his staff about which contracts Maine had with his agency and ultimately chose to cancel them, despite being aware that doing so would increase fraud and waste.