The idea you have is nice, but congress doesn't pass real budgets any more. That means that there is a lot more ability to make the money slosh around.

Like it or not, the budgets passed by congress are budgets from the perspective of the constitution.

We are wildly far beyond strict constitutionalism. This has been a trap for conservative causes for a very long time. We are now playing the game the same way the left does: win and govern.

You'll have to excuse me for being mortally terrified of "we are unencumbered by the law and will do whatever we want with power."

Laws have never encumbered humans. We're governed by social norms and those have been destroyed: massive immigration, sexual mutilation of children, and wanton spending of US taxpayer dollars.

This ends with you shooting me in the head.

deeply weird of you to say this.

>This is framed as a mechanism of eliminating DEI programs.

Did we watch the same campaign? Trump absolutely campaigned on ending DEI too. The electorate hates DEI programs. Cutting spending and DEI programs is what got him the popular vote.

Right, but that's not what this order does. People were locked out of Medicaid payment portals today because of this, how is that shutting down DEI? It seems that they really had no idea what they were shutting down with this, order.

Maslow's hierarchy would tend to suggest that when you shut down the trough to progressive leaning aid recipients they and their reps will tend to negotiate away other mere desires. Not saying you should do that, but Trump is transactional and not above using blunt tactics.

Yeah but red states and his own voters are the biggest beneficiaries of Medicaid so...

Their sacrifice is one he's willing to make.

Fox brainwashed viewers hate DEI. 1% (vote margin of win, roughly) electing a person to an office does NOT equal a popular mandate for any particular policy and its silly to claim that the voters hate what you apparently hate.

White people don't like getting called racists for existing.

You hate white people. Just day it.

It's okay to hate whites on hackernews, just call them Trump-tards.

Not all white Americans voted for Trump. The one's that did are certainly okay with racism and for a not insignificant number it was a selling point.

>His first act was eliminating institutionalized racial practices with employment, aka "DEI" initiatives.

The purpose of the narrative that DEI is "institutional racism" and the goal of its elimination is to normalize the belief that non white straight male and able-bodied people are inherently less qualified for any position, and to allow legal systemic discrimination against such people.

Which is racist, yes. And sexist, and homophobic and transphobic and ableist.

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Keeping thinking this way and keep losing elections.