DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards

Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by portaouflop on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:04PM (#43122831)

I’m not that familiar with US politics but I read that this was more a symbolic move and he actually can’t influence this law since as you pointed out it’s a matter of the New York state. He can announce things all day, which is exactly the strategy - do at least 5 ridiculous things every day and the media/people can’t react fast enough — bury them in shit

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by ziml77 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:30PM (#43123013)

If it was purely symbolic then it may be even worse because the Truth Social post he wrote to announce it ended with "LONG LIVE THE KING!"

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by bavell on Thursday February 20, 2025 @09:45PM (#43123418)

He loves a good troll and the media + commentariat eats it up like candy and gives him all the free airtime he wants.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by watwut on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:00AM (#43124817)

He means those things. And does those things.

He is just a tell is how enablers made all these people sound innocent and their detractors crazy. At this point I believe it was often deliberate strategy. Plus crazy paranoid were actually 100% correct over years.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by int_19h on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:44AM (#43137582)

You know, people used to say that about Putin, way back when he was originally elected fair and square. Funny how that worked out.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by mikeocool on Thursday February 20, 2025 @10:22PM (#43123656)

Like many things in US politics, “it’s complicated.” The program had to get approval from the federal government (which was granted by the Biden administration), it’s now up to the courts if Trump can rescind that approval.

The point is that saying power should go back to the states is really just a talking point conservatives use when it’s convenient for them, not actually a strongheld belief that guides their actions in any way.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by portaouflop on Sunday February 23, 2025 @02:35PM (#43152392)

I don’t live in the Us - I really don’t care about the specifics of US politics tbh

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