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President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that aims to eliminate seven federal agencies, including ones that focus on media, libraries, museums and ending homelessness.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Saving no money, just harming people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

FMCS's job is literally to make the economy work better!

[–] CobraChicken3000 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The president targeted the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which is the parent company of Voice of America’s (VOA), as well as the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, which is a think tank, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is an agency that supports libraries, archives and museums in every state.

He also dismantled the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, which aims to prevent and end homelessness in the U.S., the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which focuses on preventing, minimizing, and resolving work stoppages and labor disputes, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, which aims to expand economic opportunity for underserved communities, and the Minority Business Development Agency, which promotes growth of minority-owned businesses.

This is what you voted for protest-non-voters. Congratulations!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Trump ally said at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month the international state media broadcaster won’t be “Trump TV” under her watch.

Oh, so it's totally gonna be "Trump TV" on Kari fucking Lake's watch. These fuckwits cannot project any harder.

[–] masterofn001 5 points 1 day ago

7 mountains being mandated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

that focus on media

Don't reflexively support something because trump and Elmo don't like it.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/21/1177208862/usagm-michael-pack-voa-voice-of-america-investigation-trump-abuse-of-power

It was already mostly propaganda the whole time, but trump already fucked it up his last term, and it was another thing Biden just never really addressed.

We're better off without USAGM, that wouldn't be true if we elected a fighter instead of Joe Biden though. But we should fight to keep what matters, not what has been actively used to spread pro-trump propaganda for almost a decade.

If it was still around, this was Trump's appointee:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Brent_Bozell_III

I'd quote part to highlight how shit he is, but there's a lot there so you should just click the link.