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#austerity

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Kim Perales

“The Senate Budget resolution sets up the toxic combo of

Tax cuts tilted to the wealthy
🚨+Cuts to programs helping people afford food and health care
+Massive, regressive tariffs
=Transfer of wealth from low- and middle-income families to the wealthy”
-B Duke

The majority of Americans are harmed by this draconian budget. The resolution now goes to the House.

cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/

A bar graph illustrating the annual percent and dollar change in after-tax income for different income groups in the U.S. in 2026, highlighting gains for the top 1% and top 20% while showing losses for the bottom 80%…
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Kim Perales

The early CXL of an Amazon Web Svcs contract means: a slew of NOAA websites are slated to go dark at midnight. This mainly would affect NOAA's research division, & will make numerous websites & data sets inaccessible to the public.

It's another example -admin: taking data offline across the govt.

The COMM Dept is requiring -to🚨 cut its IT budget by 50% across the board.

There's a light at the end of the tunnel, but...


axios.com/2025/04/04/noaa-rese

Illustration of circuit patterns coming out of clouds like lightning.
Axios · NOAA research websites slated to go dark get a reprieveBy Andrew Freedman
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

What would it cost to stop this? Would it break the country? No.
But Labour are a Tory Party so the Poor MUST suffer or how will the rapidly decreasing Middle Class know they are better than others?
"Somebody shits on me, but I shit on you, and that's how British Society will arrange itself until Humanity dies out"

3hago 12.24 BST Labour has pulled 30,000 more children into poverty by not scrapping two-child benefit cap, charity says Labour's refusal to lift the two-child benefit cap has pulled 30,000 more children into poverty since the general election, the Child Poverty Action Group has said. The charity published the calculation as Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, said that she would regard it as a personal failure if child poverty is not falling by the time of the next general election. Last week the Department for Work and Pensions published figures showing that 250,000 more people, including 50,000 more children, will be pushed into poverty by the sickness and disability benefit cuts announced in the spring statement. Introduced by the Tories, the two-child cap means that parents do not get universal credit child allowance, or tax credits, for a third child born after April 2017.
The policy is seen by expert as a a major contributor to child poverty. Polling suggests voters favour the cap, but most Labour MPs want to see it scrapped, and many are disappointed that has not happened already. In a news release, CPAG said that other interventions to reduce child poverty would fail without the cap also being removed. It explained: AA This is because as the two-child limit applies to third or subsequent children born after April 2017, it is effectively still being rolled out, with more and more children affected every day. This means the policy acts as a brake on any alternative steps government may take. The number of children affected by the policy will continue to increase until 2035 when the first children born under the two-child limit turn 18. Every day 109 more children are pulled into poverty by the policy. CPAG’s analysis finds that on the eighth anniversary of the two-child limit (Sunday 6 April), an estimated 30,000 more children will have been pulled into poverty by the policy since the government took office.
CPAG has published details of its analysis here. In its manifesto Labour said it would “develop an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty”. A child poverty taskforce has been set up by the government, and it is due to publish its strategy this spring. In an interview with the i published today, Kendall refused to commit to lifting the two-child benefit cap. But she said: 44 We've got a clear manifesto commitment to tackle poverty and drive child poverty down and that is what we will deliver. Child poverty will be going down. Asked if she would regard it as a personal failure if child poverty rates are rising at the time of the next election, she replied: “Yes.”
#Labour#Austerity#UKPOL
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Geriatric Gardener

“Even Labour members now hate the party – as a new survey proves”

by The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“The [Survation poll] findings indicate sharp declines in favourability towards key cabinet members, widespread dissatisfaction with recent policy directions, and growing concerns about the party’s electoral prospects”

thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/04/0

Canary · Even Labour members now hate the party - as a new survey provesEven Labour members now hate the party - as a new survey proves from Canary on 3 April 2025
#Press#Labour#Austerity
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TJ1001

But… but our genius, tactician PM said Trump was our friend and everything - Plus we already took their chlorinated Taylor Swift.

Now Keir, I’m not political mastermind, tactical guru like you but…. In general if you give a fucking bully what they want, they always want more - yes always.

#brexit #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity #trade #tradewar #tarrifs

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TJ1001

Just in case you were forgetting …. Never….ever……ever…….forget the tories are scum, bottom feeding scum who couldn’t give a fuck about you. They Have no morals or shame- they are the filth of the earth, whose only interest is lining their own and their chums pockets. If they never get in again it’ll be too soon. Everyone should swear Thatchers rotting corpse never to let these people back into power

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #Gammons #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity

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Kim Perales

has fired every single worker in its program that helps low-income Americans pay their energy bills.

All of the staff who worked on Social Svcs Blk Grants *help states & territories pay for social svcs that protect ppl, incl children, from neglect & abuse, were let go."

So low-income Americans, that may be a lot of us, after 's policies & Musk's & the fallout; will be hungry, imperiled, possibly homeless, ill...

thehill.com/policy/energy-envi

A home thermostat:
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TJ1001

Look, if they cut the prices and took a little bit less in profit, just think how many old people would survive the winter. Then you’d have a surplus of old people, and that can’t be good. Anyway you plebs would on spend it on beer and fags, much better in our shareholders and board members pockets. Remember it trickles down, can’t you feel it trickling down you as we speak

#brexit #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity #energy

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