A Modest Proposal for Democrats: All Politics Is Local
I am on the Board for a local organization that coordinates a number of services in our community that help the disabled, the elderly and poor children who were born into families that can't fully care for their needs without assistance. You know, pretty much everything on the DOGE and Trump "if they are going to die, they should do so, and decrease the surplus population" hit list. (h/t Ebeneezer Scrooge) The past two weeks have been a nightmare, as you might imagine, for any aid organizations who rely on already promised and allocated federal funding, because Lon Musk has decided he knows better than Congress on how money ought to be spent, never mind the law. It's a mess. No one knows what is going on from one hour to the next, because no notice has been given to any agency anywhere on how this will be managed. The information is thin on the ground for everyone, and it changes every time the President tweets or barks an order or signs another document w...
