DOJ names New York City, Portland, Seattle 'anarchist jurisdictions' that could lose federal funding

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USA Today 9/21/2020

DOJ names New York City, Portland, Seattle 'anarchist jurisdictions' that could lose federal funding

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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department on Monday singled out Portland, Oregon; New York City and Seattle as "anarchist jurisdictions" – cities that the Trump administration said have allowed violence to persist during months of civil demonstrations over racial injustice and police brutality and could lose federal funding. 

The designation of the three cities – all led by Democrats – was in response to President Donald Trump's Sept. 2 executive order, which threatened to withhold federal funding from cities where the administration said state and local officials have cut police department funding, refused offers for help from the federal government and failed to rein in violence. 

The Office of Management and Budget will send guidance on restricting the cities' eligibility for federal dollars. 

"We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the balance. It is my hope that the cities identified by the Department of Justice today will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of government and start protecting their own citizens," Attorney General William Barr said in a statement....

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/21/doj-calls-new-york-portland-seattle-anarchist-may-withhold-funds/5851329002/

 

 

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Trumplandia.

We're lodging our opportunity to rid ourselves of this political cancer.  Despots don't concede loss...

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Department Of Justice Identifies New York City, Portland And Seattle As Jurisdictions Permitting Violence And Destruction Of Property

Identification is Response to Presidential Memorandum Reviewing Federal Funding to State and Local Governments that are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-identifies-new-york-city-portland-and-seattle-jurisdictions-permitting

 

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An Opinion:

Donald Trump has a grievance against New York – and it tells you a lot about his presidency

 Those of you who still cling to the old-fashioned belief that words have meanings may wonder whether anarchists typically have jurisdictions. Well, New York City anarchists apparently do. They have also got strict rules about alternate side parking and you get fined if you don’t adhere to social distancing protocols. It is not the sort of anarchy that the Sex Pistols sang about, that’s for sure...

...   According to the US attorney general, William Barr – the guy who recently likened coronavirus lockdown orders to slavery – the leaders of these cities have cut police funding and given a green light to violence. In order to combat this supposed lawlessness, the government has threatened to block federal funds; in the case of New York that means revoking up to $7bn (£5.4bn). Since a not insignificant portion of that money goes towards the city’s police department, the Trump administration is, rather ironically, threatening to defund the police...

...   You know what anarchists do when bullied by the government? Prepare lawsuits, of course. New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, along with the leaders of Portland and Seattle, the other anarchist cities, has promised to sue the Trump administration if it attempts to follow through on withdrawing federal funds. Which it probably won’t: this latest move is less about lowering city budgets than it is about raising liberals’ hackles and pandering to Trump’s base. Threatening to do something unconstitutional and illegal is Trump’s way of reminding voters that he’s the law-and-order candidate. And, of course, it’s a distraction from the fact that the US is nearing 200,000 Covid-19 deaths...

...   the Trump administration has made it very clear that it doesn’t care about the lives of people in Democratic states. Trump recently boasted, for example, that America had dealt with Covid-19 well, “if you take the blue states out”.  Trump and his people have made it very clear that if you’re not on their side, you’ll suffer. Trump is not the president of the US – he’s the president of his followers. There’s a word for that sort of thing and it’s not “anarchy” – it’s “authoritarianism”...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/22/donald-trump-has-a-grievance-against-new-york-and-it-tells-you-a-lot-about-his-presidency?ref=hvper.com

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3 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Trumplandia.

We're lodging* our opportunity to rid ourselves of this political cancer.  Despots don't concede loss...

*losing

 

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March 21, 2020:  “That’s Their Problem”: How Jared Kushner Let the Markets Decide America’s COVID-19 Fate

First-person accounts of a tense meeting at the White House in late March suggest that President Trump’s son-in-law resisted taking federal action to alleviate shortages and help Democratic-led New York. Instead, he enlisted a former roommate to lead a Consultant State to take on the Deep State, with results ranging from the Eastman Kodak fiasco to a mysterious deal to send ventilators to Russia…

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/jared-kushner-let-the-markets-decide-covid-19-fate 

 

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Sadly this is exactly what I expect from Trump and Barr. We all know how sanctuary cities have been a thorn in the Trumpian flank since day one. 
 

I wonder if New York and Washington state are net donors or net recipients... They certainly appear to be contributing a whole lot to the federal government..  Just a thought.. Could they arbitrarily withhold payment? If the feds designate them ”anarchist jurisdictions” perhaps they in turn can designate the federal goverment dysfunctional and generally kaputt... ?  Seems like an appropriate riposte...  I mean, since they’re playing games and all... 

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2 hours ago, macawake said:

I wonder if New York and Washington state are net donors or net recipients..

They are net donors

‘Blue State Bailouts’? Some States Send Billions More to Federal Government Than They Get Back

Eight states send far more to the federal government through taxes than they see in annual federal spending.

  1. NY
  2. NJ
  3. CT
  4. CO
  5. MN
  6. NE
  7. UT
  8. IL
  9. CA
  10. WA

   23. OR

Rockefeller Institute of Government Who Gives and Who Gets?

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Explore the Balance of Payments between States and the Federal Government

The biggest givers in our latest report, based on 2018 data, were New York, which paid in US$22 billion more than it received; New Jersey, which paid $12 billion more; Massachusetts, which paid $9 billion more; and Connecticut, which paid $8 billion more than it received.

https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/

 

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