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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's "testing" a plan for the federal government to take over Washington, D.C.According to Bloomberg, D.C.

But DC is literally already under the purview of the federal government. There's a mayor/council government, but the federal government is over them and can overrule anything they do. In the past, Congress has over ruled legalization of marijuana in DC. So let's see Trump issue an executive order against what the DC mayor is doing or not doing.
 
But DC is literally already under the purview of the federal government. There's a mayor/council government, but the federal government is over them and can overrule anything they do. In the past, Congress has over ruled legalization of marijuana in DC. So let's see Trump issue an executive order against what the DC mayor is doing or not doing.
A elected mayor is relatively new. Before the 1960s DC was ran by a commission that was appointed by the president.
 

Wisconsin GOP Rep. Weirdly Lies About Helping His State Survive The Medicaid Cuts For his State He Voted For​

WASHINGTON – Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) is peddling a bizarre claim that he was key to securing $1 billion to help hospitals in his state survive the sweeping Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax bill.

Except that he wasn’t — and he voted for Trump’s bill.

In more than a dozen social media posts in recent days, Van Orden tries to take credit for Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) and state legislators rushing to pass a budget that increases the state’s so-called Medicaid provider tax rate. This is a state-imposed tax on health care providers, like hospitals, which the state uses to help pay for its Medicaid program. The federal government matches the state’s provider tax rate.


Until recently, Wisconsin had a very low provider tax rate compared to other states. Because Trump’s tax bill would have frozen that tax rate at its low level, state legislators rushed to increase the rate in their budget so Wisconsin could be grandfathered into Trump’s tax law at the maximum level, meaning it will now get an extra $1 billion in federal money every year.

Van Orden, whose House seat is rated a “toss-up” in the 2026 elections, seems to want people to believe he was vital to his state getting this $1 billion to offset the pain of the bill he voted for. In Wisconsin alone, Trump’s now-law is estimated to kick more than 258,000 people off of their health insurance and puts at least three rural hospitals at risk of closing.

In a Friday post, Van Orden complained that a PBS story about Wisconsin state legislators racing to pass their budget to secure the extra federal funding “failed to mention that we worked seamlessly with the State Gov to get this done.”


That same day, he accused Evers of telling “a flat out lie” about Republicans in Congress selling out families to pay for tax cuts for the rich in Trump’s bill: “We just got $1,000,000,000 annually for BadgerCare,” Van Orden claimed, referring to the state’s Medicaid program.

He repeatedlytook credit for the $1 billion in a daylongspat with Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who accused Van Orden of lying about the damaging effects of Trump’s tax bill. He did it again on Sunday, in response to a social media post by Evers touting that the state’s budget “ensures access to healthcare.”

“This is because of State and Congressional Republicans,” Van Orden tweeted at Evers. “You know it. I told you.”

Throughout his posts, Van Orden keeps sharing a copy of a letter he sent to Evers on July 2 in which he essentially pleads with the governor to hurry up and pass the state budget to protect Wisconsin hospitals from the Medicaid cuts in the tax bill he voted for. He claims this letter is proof that he is the reason the governor and state legislature took fast action.


But Evers’ spokesperson told HuffPost on Tuesday that Van Orden played no role in the monthslong negotiations between the governor and state legislators on their budget, or on their efforts to move quickly to secure the extra $1 billion to offset Medicaid cuts.

“Congressman Van Orden never personally advocated to the governor or our office for the hospital assessment provision to be included in the state budget until after it was clearly already part of the state budget, he had nothing to do with the hospital assessment being part of bipartisan state budget negotiations with Republican leaders, and he had nothing to do with the fact that the governor decided to enact the state budget before the federal reconciliation bill was signed,” Evers’ spokesperson Britt Cudaback said in a statement.
If Congressman Van Orden wanted to take credit for supporting Medicaid and protecting Wisconsinites’ access to healthcare, perhaps he shouldn’t have voted to gut Medicaid and kick 250,000 Wisconsinites off their healthcare.Britt Cudaback, spokesperson for Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D)
The governor worked with Democrats in Wisconsin’s congressional delegation for months to monitor potential federal changes to hospital payments under Trump’s bill, added Cudaback. But Van Orden didn’t reach out to Evers’ office until June 30, after Evers and Republican state leaders had already reached a bipartisan state budget agreement.


“It was only then that Congressman Van Orden reached out to tell the governor and our office something we already knew and had long planned for, which is that the state budget would need to be enacted before President Trump signed the federal reconciliation bill,” she said.

Cudaback took a shot at the GOP lawmaker for, she said, pretending to care about protecting people’s health care after voting to kick so many people off of it.

“Put simply, if Congressman Van Orden wanted to take credit for supporting Medicaid and protecting Wisconsinites’ access to healthcare, perhaps he shouldn’t have voted to gut Medicaid and kick 250,000 Wisconsinites off their healthcare,” she said.

Cudaback later called Van Orden out directly on social media, too. “Not true,” she wrote in response to a post by Van Orden claiming Evers had secured the $1 billion “because I told him if he did not get it done, we would miss the once in a generation opportunity.”


In a brief statement, Van Orden told HuffPost that it’s clear he was key to the Wisconsin governor and state legislature moving quickly to pass their budget because of the time Evers signed it into law.

“The only reason Tony signed the bill at 1:30 in the morning was to make the deadline I spoke and wrote to him about,” he said Tuesday. “Period. Do that math.”

Pocan was still mocking Van Orden on Monday for trying to take credit for passing a state budget bill.

“I didn’t realize he was serving in the State Legislature and Congress simultaneously,” the Wisconsin Democrat said in a statement. “The State Legislature voted to expand Medicaid’s reimbursements to the states before Derrick, Congressional Republicans, and Trump could force through their devastating reconciliation bill that will cut $1 trillion from healthcare nationwide and could shutter rural hospitals across the state.”

“You can’t create a problem and then claim credit for someone else’s help in making it slightly less horrific,” Pocan added. “He and his Republican colleagues are the reason this legislative fix was so necessary in the first place.”
 
That has to be satire
Kinda. The Tweet itself isn't real, but SOME MAGA's out there that were still on board with this Twitter acct are sharing that around and its still getting traction.

Oddly it appears to be MAGA Vrs Former MAGA with this.


That acct (Texas Patriot Mike) was a HIGHLY influential MAGA acct on Twitter 2nd only to Cat Turd in number of Followers.

However it appears the entire acct was deleted a little over 2 weeks ago after it went super critical of Trump for the situation in Israel and Trump deciding to bomb Iran. Once it went against Trump and the owner said they were done with Trump because of Iran, then MAGA quickly turned on it and begin accusing the acct of being Run by Pakistani's and MAGA followers started jumping ship and the user deleted the acct. However, there is ZERO evidence it was an acct run by Pakistani's or outside of the US. It became a victim of the MAGA civil war that kicked off after Iran and continues till now.

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SSA Recipients are just straight up being lied too by the Social Security Admin.

SSA 'Applauds' Big Beautiful Bill For Cutting Income Taxes on Social Security Payments. The Bill Doesn't Do That​


Key Takeaways​

  • The Social Security Administration said the One Big Beautiful Bill "eliminates federal income taxes on Social Security benefits for most beneficiaries."
  • The bill does not eliminate income taxes that some beneficiaries pay on their benefits; it does, however, provide a temporary tax deduction for Americans 65 and older.
  • Social Security advocates said the information could be confusing to beneficiaries.
The Social Security Administration may have confused beneficiaries with its response to Congress's tax and spending bill.


In a press release issued on Thursday, the administration said it “applauds" the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill. The administration said the bill is important to Social Security recipients because it ensures that 90% of beneficiaries will no longer pay federal income taxes on their benefits. However, experts say that claim is misleading.

Instead of eliminating income taxes on benefits, the Big Beautiful Bill, which President Donald Trump signed into law on Friday, offers some seniors 65 and older a temporary deduction of up to $6,000 on their federal income taxes, whether they are claiming Social Security benefits or not.

However, many beneficiaries are left out of this “senior bonus,” including lower-earning and higher-earning Americans or those who claim their retirement benefits early.

The bill did not eliminate taxes on benefits because the reconciliation process lawmakers used does not allow lawmakers to make changes to Social Security’s funding structure. The claim that the bill eliminates income taxes paid on benefits echoes recent social media posts by Trump.


The SSA reportedly repeated the claim in an email sent to beneficiaries last week. The administration has not sent a correction to the email and did not respond to Investopedia’s request for comment.

The administration corrected a portion of the press release on Monday that said the elimination of income tax on benefits was in addition to the tax deduction for those over 65. However, the administration maintained language that says the bill "includes a provision that eliminates federal income taxes on Social Security benefits for most beneficiaries."

Social Security advocates said the messaging may have confused beneficiaries.

“It’s important for people to know the correct information, and it just seems improper for an agency with a track record of just doing its job–which is to manage the benefits of [about 69] million Americans and not to engage in this partisanship–to do something like this,” said Dan Adcock, director of government relations and policy at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
 
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