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Republican lawmakers are pushing back against sweeping cuts to the federal government launched by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, as their downsizing crusade begins to hit GOP constituents.

A growing number of GOP lawmakers are trying to intervene with the Trump administration and are weighing legislation to circumvent the changes. But with the Department of Government Efficiency and the Office of Management and Budget moving at a rapid clip and flouting federal law to carve up the government, the lawmakers face monumental challenges in getting the White House to spare their constituents from the ax.

It’s an awkward position for GOP lawmakers who have otherwise voiced support for DOGE.

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Are those leopards I hear?

[–] TomMasz 65 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It would explain the sound of face eating.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

nom nom nom

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

crunch crunch

[–] aceshigh 10 points 5 days ago

The leopards are morbidly obese already.

[–] aeronmelon 8 points 5 days ago

The leopards are coming so fast they’re red shifting.

[–] pennomi 116 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“He’s hurting the wrong people!!1!”

[–] [email protected] 122 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

For anyone unfamiliar with the source of this quote:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

A few miles away, another prison employee, Crystal Minton, accompanied her fiancé to a friend's house to help clear the remnants of a metal roof mangled by the hurricane. Ms. Minton, a 38-year-old secretary, said she had obtained permission from the warden to put off her Mississippi duty until early February because she is a single mother caring for disabled parents. Her fiancé plans to take vacation days to look after Ms. Minton's 7-year-old twins once she has to go to work.The shutdown on top of the hurricane has caused Ms. Minton to rethink a lot of things."I voted for him, and he's the one who's doing this," she said of Mr. Trump. "I thought he was going to do good things. He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."

They want others to suffer, but they don't understand that this is a class war and they're on the losing (suffering) side.

(I know it's technically a misquote, who cares, OP got the idea across)

[–] pennomi 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for doing the legwork I was too lazy to do. People like you make Lemmy great!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

too bad the voters continued to cheer for the leopards...

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago (1 children)

awwww. you're getting exactly what you signed-up for.

lay in the shit you helped spread... or hang the traitors.

your choice. only one of them is the correct one, but you won't pick that one, will you. because some black single mother and their lgbtq neighbor kid are getting hit, too--that makes it all 'ok' and worth it, right?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

As the old saying goes, a conservative would gladly eat a pile of shit if they knew a liberal had to smell their breath.

It's the only power they have: upsetting other people. So they spend their lives clinging to that power and doing anything and everything to hurt others to be able to get a perverse joy of "controlling" someone else's emotions. Like everything with conservatives, everything, everything, everything is through the lens of power. They speak no other language.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I've heard it for 15 years , at least. In internet-time, that's deadly old.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I've never heard it. We must travel in different internet circles.

[–] gibmiser 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At least a decade old at this point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

it at least dates back to the dark days of newt, if not nixon and goldwater.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.

[–] blattrules 36 points 5 days ago

Oh, cutting government programs that are in place to help the less fortunate so you can give the rich another tax cut is hurting the less fortunate?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago

"They're not hurting the right people!"

[–] aeronmelon 18 points 5 days ago

“You said you were going to bite our heads off, we didn’t think you were going to bite our heads off!”

[–] snekerpimp 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“An awkward position”??? They are elected officials, and should do what their constituents want, not what will keep them in good graces with the Orange god king and his bumbling idiot vizier.

[–] wjrii 5 points 5 days ago

The Venn diagram circle of constituents who are complaining now is about 99% inside the one of constituents who will vote MAGA no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Push those GOP states under the water

[–] meco03211 7 points 5 days ago

"Way ahead of you" - Florida

[–] captainlezbian 8 points 5 days ago

Only way to make the government small enough to fit in your pants

[–] Darkard 8 points 5 days ago
[–] motor_spirit 7 points 5 days ago

It's almost sad when you see stupid fucking people learn lessons the hard way, but there's so much excitement to celebrate with new opportunity and enlightenment!