Both the article and the summary forgot to mention HOW he was forced to scale anything back. I assume it's a court order? If that's the case, it remains to be seen whether it has any effect.
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People keep saying his administration ignores the courts completely. But this is another case where they chose not to openly defy the courts. They push the line as much as they can, but they seem unwilling to blatantly cross it.
But this is another case where they chose not to openly defy the courts.
I suspect this is more likely a backlash from Republicans internal to the administration who are carrying student loan debt, benefiting from Pell Grants, or otherwise finding themselves directly impacted by the program.
Very routine for Trump to announce a thing, have someone in his admin whisper in his ear, reverse his decision, have a different person whisper in his ear, double down, have a third person whisper in his ear, get distracted and let his cabinet secretaries do as they please.
Don't get excited. You can still guarantee the money entrusted to the DoEd is going to get embezzled, while people who aren't friendly with the administration will be targeted for harassment and hardship.
This is still a win for Project 2025. Not a full 100% win, but ground gained is ground gained.
Member when project 2025 specifically called for this (and basically all the other shit thats happening) and Trump said he didn't know anything about it or any of it's creators and then put all of them in power and followed virtually every single part of project 2025 like his asshole would explode if he didn't?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
That fucking face. Please die already old man.
Man I got banned from Reddit for saying less. Fuck that place.
No one regrets being banned from nazi digg.
At first the tribal part of my brain was upset but then I got kinda proud ngl. I know what I’d be doing during the tea party
I got banned from r/Missouri yesterday (by reddit admin not mods) for saying "remember ,snitches get stitches, we didn't see nothing" in response to a post on Tesla fires.
Fuckinh unreal.
Never would have happened a year ago.
That absolutely is fucking unreal! Mine was also about Tesla fires.. curious.
I know, right? It’s like stretching my legs here in first class being able to say how much I really hate that fucking guy.
I got banned for posting pics on Luigi. Not the CEO killer (but that is what I meant), but the actual image from Mario Kart.
He looks like he just realized he shat himself..
He does it on purpose as a power play.
Finally, some self-awareness 🙌
I thought he had been born like the rest of us. But this makes sense! He shat himself into existence all by himself! He's a shit devil!
Shatchild.
Carries a portal up his anus into the underworld. We're seeing the orange because that's the color of the inside of the devil. Once he folds inside out into the underworld he turns red.
Painfully and alone, if possible, but I’ll take what I can get
I would also accept painfully and televised.
This whole timeline of America needs to be buried but not forgotten.
Shame that dark Brandon never showed up.
Wouldn't you guys just be getting that other fucking face instead, even more than now?
Sure but Vance doesn't have a cult of personality meaning that it'd be a lot easier to work against him without risk of MAGA retribution. Worst case scenario things continue more or less as is, best case scenario the Conservatives eat each other alive and get set back permanently.
How is this a win...?
Because he conceded that it's not within his power to dismantle a government department that was made via a law. In other words, he blinked on infringing on that core Article I power. That said, I don't think it's a huge win, and he will try again. But at least we are finding the frontiers of Republicans' stomach for authoritarian behavior. It's not great, but it's something.
Yea! He can't dismantle it! Sure, he can fire all the employees, cut programs, direct department leaders to abandon all initiatives, and discriminate on who gets funding to the point where it becomes a useless, hollowed-out shell; but he can't dismantle it! That means the department of education is "saved"!
That'll show him to flex his authority with no consequences!
It's a flinch. Seemingly he has the ability to whittle it down to one employee and claim, "It's technically still open."
More "survived a punch" than "won a fight"
Nowhere in the post title, headline, summary, or actual article is this called a "win".
#tigerblood
Sounds more bittersweet(ish) than anything.