Labor Secretary Warns States Could Lose Federal Funding If Illegal Immigrants Get Unemployment Benefits | ZeroHedge

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,

U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer warned states of losing federal funding if they fail to comply with President Donald Trump’s directives on rewarding illegal immigrants with tax dollars, according to an April 25 statement issued by the Department of Labor.

The secretary reminded all states that failing to fulfill existing legal obligations will result in the loss of federal funding through the Title III UI administrative (more…)

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“Bloodbath”: Panic Ensues After Trump Admin Takes Wrecking Ball To DOJ’s Woke Civil Rights Division | ZeroHedge

Harmeet Dhillon – Trump's hand-picked choice to lead the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, has been taking a wrecking ball to the woke government entity – forcing out 'a majority of career managers and implementing new priorities' that have radically altered its mandate, NBC News' swamp scribe Ken Dilanian reports.

Harmeet Dhillon

"It’s been a complete bloodbath," one senior DOJ lawyer told Dilanian. Other sources said that over a dozen senior lawyers – "many with decades of experience working under presidents of both parties," have been reassigned, while others have resigned in frustration after they were shuffled around.

Dhillon kicked the hornet's nest last week – issuing a series of memos outlining the shifting priorities, which include (gasp!) "Keeping Men out of Women's Sports," and "Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling."

"This is a 180 shift from the division’s traditional mission," one former senior official said – declining to be named "in fear of retaliation."

"These documents appear to have been created in a vacuum completely divorced from reality," the former official continued. "The division can only enforce statutes that have been passed by Congress, and these orders seem to contemplate division attorneys’ executing on work that fundamentally departs from the division’s long-standing mission."

Translation:

Dhillon, meanwhile, said the changes were no different than what happens anytime there's a change in administration, along with a quest (more…)

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David Stockman On Why And How To Fire 42,000 IRS Agents… | ZeroHedge

Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com,

The true scandal of current American fiscal governance needs be commented on. Or, better still, hammered upon good and hard.

To wit, the American electorate apparently doesn’t give a shit about runaway government spending because as a practical matter the overwhelming share of voters don’t pay the taxes to fund it. Aside from social insurance taxes, which most payroll taxpayers still believe to be a premium for a (more…)

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