President Trump

TinFoilHat said:
IRS have done a deal with ICE to share info on undocumented Migrants.

Not fascist though...
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I mentioned this yesterday (not sure which thread).

Apparently, it's actually the Treasury Dept and Homeland Security who have made the arrangement.

The IRS (part of the Treasury) were not involved in the discussion.
The acting head of the IRS found out when Fox News started reporting it. She is now expected to resign, the second acting head since Jan 20th to quit.
IRS lawyers have advised that it almost certainly breaks privacy laws.
 
andthesunshineband said:
Well I've just watched it for last 15 minutes or so and everything is great?
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I'd put money (obviously somebody else's as it't the Trump way) on Hegseth's announcement on the Panama Canal is meaningless. I thought that US govt ships already had priority and there was an annual fee of a few million dollars (less than 10, I think).
 
Trump made the lowering of the price of eggs - a key cost of living indicator - an election promise. He said that Joe Biden had lost control of the prices of eggs.

Turns out they are now at a record price.
 
I hear that it's now not just Venezuela who have shipped their criminals to the US< it's everyone.
(then a random sentence about inflation)
and back to deportations.

At that point, he called an end to the bit with the press present.
 
bluethrunthru said:
Those bashful coy 75 ass licking countries just queuing up to do deal - can't be named because they go to another school so we wouldn't know them anyway?
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I bet of the administration called up all the countries and asked them if they wanted to discuss trade agreements over 75 would say "yeah sure".

As far as achievements go, it's a pretty shit one.
 
Gareth Barry Conlon said:
That's not quite how it works. The Truss debacle made UK government debt significantly more expensive in comparison to other similar countries.

It's like having bad credit vs just the market being expensive.

Right now uk debt is more expensive than when Truss was doing her thing but it's not more expensive relative to other similar countries.

Truss was clearly responsible for the market rate we were paying at that time. Since then, under rishy and now Starmer our rate has normalised but the market cost in general has gone up.
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Yes indeed but are most other countries heavily exposed to our levels of borrowing? Truss could have borrowed for her tax policies and survived just as equally as Labour are surviving with that '£20bn' black hole but today Starmer can't have further borrowing without cuts. And yet here we are with an increasing £120bn deficit.

This is after all why he's taking away pensioners and disabled people's benefits and pinching from the foreign aid budget for defence.

This is why a DOGE exercise would be very welcome here. Despite government spending actually being at record levels why do we spend so much and get so little back?
 
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