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Will be important during the upcoming chaos and the failed corporate media bending the knee..

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That's pretty much spot-on.

Can people say what has a better chance of happening, all these trade deals getting done or Brian Ferentz being the next head football coach at Iowa? I’m leaning towards Brian!

President Trump said his administration would soon send letters to many countries dictating the terms of U.S. trade with them. Speaking in the United Arab Emirates, Trump said there were “150 countries that want to make a deal, but you’re not able to see that many countries.” Instead, he said, in the next two to three weeks the administration will send out letters “telling people what they’ll be paying to do business in the United States.”

Administration officials talked last month about negotiating 90 trade deals during the 90-day pause in Trump’s most punishing tariffs. The president has announced just two so far, with Britain and China, and details of both are still in flux.

Like people spend all day watching some ****ing chimney for smoke. It’s so archaic. Just ****ing tweet out the decision when you’re done and quit the over the top theatrics.

It didn’t take long for the new House speaker, Mike Johnson, to demonstrate to the world that he will not be a serious partner for American allies or for those who still believe that governing is not a petty little game.
On Monday, only five days after being elevated to one of the most important leadership roles in the country, he upended a major foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, meekly obeying those Republican House members who see their main role as disengaging from the world and taking self-destructive potshots at Democrats. Nothing in Mr. Johnson’s record suggested he might try to shore up America’s leadership in the world, but his actions show that his new position has not added any gravitas to his thinking; he’s just pandering to his cronies in the far right wing.
Specifically, he stripped money for Ukraine and Taiwan from the $105 billion package requested by President Biden, leaving only the $14.3 billion the administration wants to send to Israel. But then he imposed a condition on the Israel money: Mr. Biden must agree to cut the same amount out of the money the Internal Revenue Service uses to chase down high-income tax cheats. So essentially the U.S. can protect Israel as long as it also protects rich white-collar criminals.
The I.R.S., of course, has nothing to do with the war between Israel and Hamas, but it has everything to do with the Republican desire to score political points whenever possible. Ever since Mr. Biden won $80 billion for stronger I.R.S. enforcement in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, Republicans have made that money a target, exploiting the agency’s Sheriff-of-Nottingham public image by trying to delude ordinary taxpayers into believing the extra funds meant the agency was coming after them.
But the aim of the extra enforcement was always the wealthy, whose complex tax fraud schemes cost the Treasury billions every year. Reducing the I.R.S. budget would actually widen the deficit, the opposite of what Republicans claim they care about. The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that if the I.R.S. enforcement budget is cut by $25 billion, as some Senate Republicans have proposed, it would cost $49 billion in revenue from auditing the rich, and widen the 10-year deficit by nearly $24 billion.
Another study published earlier this year by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that every additional dollar spent on auditing high-income taxpayers yielded $12 in new revenue for the Treasury. By that calculation, Mr. Johnson’s stunt could cost the country $171.6 billion. Earlier this year, Republicans forced Mr. Biden to cut $20 billion from the I.R.S. as part of the price for avoiding a debt default; having shown that the White House would agree to chip away at a top priority to prevent a crisis, they are returning to the same playbook.

But in the end, the I.R.S. cut isn’t really going to happen, as House Republicans know, because Mr. Johnson’s bill will die in the Senate, where many leading Republicans already oppose it. Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, has made it clear the final bill will have to include money for Ukraine, and hawks like Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have said the Ukraine money was related to Israel’s war against Hamas.
“Hamas was just hosted by the Russians in Moscow,” Mr. Graham said, adding, about Ukraine, “I think breaking them out sends the wrong signal.”
Other Republicans like Senator Mitt Romney of Utah and Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina agreed with the White House that cutting the I.R.S. budget made little sense in the context of national security.
But making sense isn’t really Mr. Johnson’s game. He’s got a few calculations going on that show the kind of cynical strategic planning that current passes for politics in the House. By throwing in the I.R.S. cut, he gets to show the same extremists who deposed his predecessor that he can play rough with the White House. The move will presumably get some House Democrats to vote against the bill, and then Republicans can run misleading attack ads saying those Democrats oppose aid to Israel, as many members are already anticipating.
“The new Republican speaker has chosen to put a poison pill” in the aid bill, Representative Ritchie Torres, Democrat of New York, told Axios. “The politicizing of Israel in a time of war is nothing short of disgraceful.”
And then, assuming the bill does pass the House, Mr. Johnson will then get a seat at the table to negotiate with the Senate and the White House on the final legislation. If the House can’t pass anything, it will have less leverage in determining the final amount of aid.
If Mr. Johnson has substantive objections to helping Ukraine and Israel that justify the legislative impediments he is constructing, he should state what they are. There is room for a debate over conditions that could be imposed on military aid for Israel, including a detailed plan to protect civilians in the Gaza campaign, or, as my colleague Thomas Friedman has suggested, an agreement not to construct one new settlement in the West Bank outside existing settlement blocs and to rebuild the Palestinian Authority and the two-state solution at the expense of Hamas.
But that would require a serious discussion with serious people. And Mr. Johnson has now shown that he has no place in that room.

Has word climate in it somehow? Must destroy. Derp.


The Trump administration is preparing to eliminate two key Environmental Protection Agency divisions focused on climate change and energy efficiency, including its consumer-facing Energy Star program, according to two sources familiar with the plan.

The agency is planning to shutter its climate change division and climate protection partnership division, both of which sit within the agency’s office of air and radiation, the sources said. The moves will impact several climate programs including the greenhouse gas reporting program and EPA’s partnerships on methane – a super-polluting, planet-warming gas emitted from oil and gas, agriculture and landfills.

The agency is also planning to close its Energy Star program, a longstanding public-private partnership certifying energy efficient appliances and helping consumers find products and tax credits to bring down the cost of energy efficient appliances like air conditioners, heat pumps, refrigerators and washing machines.

President Donald Trump floated dismantling or privatizing Energy Star in his first term, but the fate of the program has been unclear so far in his second term. Bipartisan groups have been urging the administration to save it.

“Eliminating the Energy Star program would directly contradict this administration’s promise to reduce household energy costs,” said Paula Glover, president of the nonprofit coalition Alliance to Save Energy, in a statement to CNN. “For just $32 million a year, Energy Star helps American families save over $40 billion in annual energy costs. That’s a return of $350 for every federal dollar invested.”

It’s not immediately clear how many EPA employees will be affected by the changes. The agency is currently offering staffers a second round of the deferred resignation offer and will reassess how many people it needs to fire after that offer period has closed, a source said.

In a statement to CNN, an EPA spokesperson said the agency announced “the next phase of organizational improvements to the agency to better provide clean air, water, and land for all Americans” on Friday.

“With this action, EPA is delivering organizational improvements to the personnel structure that will directly benefit the American people and better advance the agency’s core mission, while Powering the Great American Comeback,” the spokesperson said.

A spokesperson for Energy Star did not return CNN’s request for comment.

Energy Star was implemented by the first Bush administration in 1992. According to the program’s website, it is “the most widely recognized symbol for energy efficiency in America,” with over 90% of US households recognizing the label.

The program is “nearly universally supported” by manufacturers, retailers, home builders and US consumers, said Joe Goffman, who led EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation under Biden.

“Energy Star ratings of appliances and electronics have been part of tens of millions of American households’ purchases,” Goffman said, adding that energy performance ratings are now a built-in part of consumer shopping decisions.

A spokesperson for the EPA did not answer questions about when Energy Star certifications for appliances would stop.

The changes are part of broader division closures within EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, which is in charge of formulating some of the agency’s biggest regulations to cut down on air pollution. It also could represent a major blow for official government measuring of US fossil fuel emissions, which are heating the planet.

Under the Biden administration, reducing hazardous air pollutants and planet-warming gases was a big priority. However, Trump EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in March that the agency would roll back over a dozen Biden-era pollution rules that reduced emissions from power plants, vehicles and the oil and gas industry.

Trump’s EPA also announced in March that it will reconsider and strike down a consequential scientific finding on the dangers of climate pollution that has served as the basis behind federal regulations to curb them. Dismissing the precedent would strip the EPA’s authority to manage the pollution that causes global warming.

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