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Kristi Noem got all gussied up—

Apparently with fake eyelashes, hair extensions...

And a $50,000 Rolex watch

To stand in front of the prisoners locked up in a crowded El Salvador prison cell

and film her saber-rattling video shoot.

At a Prison Appearance, a $50,000 Watch Stands Out Kristi Noem's trip to a prison in El Salvador drew social media attention for the homeland security secretary's choice to wear a gold Rolex in such a setting. Listen to this article - 4:26 min Learn more https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/style/kristi-noem-venezuela-prison-rolex-watch.html Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 1605 PST
Rolex Daytonas, like the one Ms. Noem wore in El Salvador, were first introduced in 1963. Pool photo by Alex Brandon https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/style/kristi-noem-venezuela-prison-rolex-watch.html Accessed: 28 March 2025 at 1605 PST
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“… the president has no legal authority to tell states how to run their elections—

But he’s trying to threaten states anyway, with the pulling of federal election assistance funding and with unspecified action from his Justice Department, in hopes they comply.”

~ The implicit threat in Trump’s push to change election rules~
The president just set the stage to challenge election results he doesn’t like.

#trump #USA #USGov #USPol #elections

vox.com/politics/405990/trump-

TOPSHOT-US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP
Vox · Trump is threatening states to change their election rulesBy Andrew Prokop
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From what I read, she was not really involved w/ demonstrations and she didn’t commit any crimes. She also had a valid student visa.

Unless there is more to this story, it seems she was taken away for having an opinion, speaking up for people she felt were being harmed, and urging the university’s action as “direct stakeholders” in the university’s
stance given their financial entanglements and graduate research work.

(And WOW, that op-ed was well-written.)

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She wrote an op-ed expressing her feelings about the situation in Gaza and how the Palestinians were suffering. She said the university should disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct ties to Israel.

Over a year later, her student visa was revoked by the #Trump admin and she was arrested in broad daylight by non-uniformed masked people.

The allegations claim she supported a terrorist organization (Hamas).

#USA #USGov #Gaza #Israel

apnews.com/article/tufts-stude

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“House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who plans to hold a hearing focused on Boasberg and district judges next week, said he’s speaking with GOP appropriators about what he called ‘legislative remedies.’

‘We got money, spending, the appropriations process to help try to address some of this,’ Jordan said, without adding further details.”
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#USA#USGov#USCongress
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“Congress has eliminated courts in the past. In 1913, for example, Congress abolished the Commerce Court and its judges were redistributed to the federal appeals court, according to Congress.gov. And in 1982, Congress passed legislation abolishing the Article III Court of Claims and U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, and established the Article I Court of Federal Claims and the Article III U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.”

#USA#USGov#USCongress
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“…Speaker (of the House) Mike Johnson, R-La… floated the possibility of Congress eliminating some federal courts.

‘We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things,’ Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. ‘But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.’”

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#USA #USGov #USCongress #USJudiciary

nbcnews.com/politics/congress/

NBC News · Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judgesBy Scott Wong
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“The website provided transparency of funding to the public, and ‘Any change in the delegation of apportionment authority to different officials within the budget office would also have to be disclosed.’”

Earlier this year, watchdog groups used public apportionments data to report on $40 million of previously enacted funding being freed up for #DOGE 👀

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#USA #USGov #USPol #trump

~ White House scraps public spending database ~

Sources familiar with the decision said it was because sensitive and preliminary information was being disclosed on the site, including some information that could be considered risks to national security if made public. But open government groups seem likely to challenge the decision in court, given the apparent violation of federal law. The fiscal 2022 wrap-up spending package, signed in March 2022, initially established the requirement for public posting of apportionments, which are how the OMB parcels out available funding to federal agencies to ensure they do not burn through the money too quickly. https://www.ajc.com/news/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/ARLAYFBOB5FNLD6P2OHIHXT6LI/ Accessed: 24 March 2025 at 2308 EST
The 2022 law required the budget office to establish its apportionments website within 120 days of enactment, with each apportionment document posted within two days, along with any footnotes and an explanation for those footnotes. Any change in the delegation of apportionment authority to different officials within the budget office would also have to be disclosed. In the fiscal 2023 omnibus package enacted in late 2022, lawmakers inserted language making clear their intent was for the OMB to continue to "operate and maintain the automated system" required under the previous spending law in that fiscal year "and each fiscal year thereafter." https://www.ajc.com/news/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/ARLAYFBOB5FNLD6P2OHIHXT6LI/ Accessed: 24 March 2025 at 2308 EST
The law was in part a response to actions taken during the first Trump administration, whereby then-Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, through delegation of authority to political appointees at the agency, directed agencies to withhold the obligation of funds to Ukraine using apportionment footnotes. Vought is once again the White House budget office director after his party-line Senate confirmation vote earlier this year. Democrats first raised the issue as an item they wanted to include in 2020 spending legislation, but President Donald Trump, then in his first term, threatened to veto it. So Democrats bided their time and waited out Trump, getting it over the finish line after the 2020 election, when they controlled both chambers and the White House. https://www.ajc.com/news/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/ARLAYFBOB5FNLD6P2OHIHXT6LI/ Accessed: 24 March 2025 at 2308 EST
Advocates for transparency in government hailed the apportionments database as a major step forward at the time. And it's taken on more importance this year, amid the Trump administration's various executive orders and other actions to delay or withhold funds for activities deemed out of step with its priorities. Earlier this year, CQ Roll Call and later ProPublica used public apportionments data to report on previously enacted funding being freed up for the U.S. DOGE Service - more popularly known as the Department of Government Efficiency. Through the beginning of March, the White House had apportioned over $40 million to "DOGE," according to data compiled by OpenOMB, a website maintained by the Protect Democracy Project, a nonprofit. https://www.ajc.com/news/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/ARLAYFBOB5FNLD6P2OHIHXT6LI/ Accessed: 24 March 2025 at 2308 EST
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The White House (WH) Office of Management and Budget (OMB) quietly took down a website required by law.

The website let the public view “approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws.” In 2022, Congress mandated this information be posted on the WH’s website.

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#USA #USGov #USPol #trump

~ White House scraps public spending database ~

ajc.com/news/white-house-scrap

White House scraps public spending database WASHINGTON — The White House budget office has taken down its website where approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws are statutorily required to be posted for public viewing, a move likely to face major blowback from members of Congress and government watchdogs. As of Monday morning, the Office of Management and Budget was no longer making "apportionments" of previously enacted appropriations available on the website it set up for that purpose after Congress mandated the requirement starting in 2022. The site now simply says: "Page not found." https://www.ajc.com/news/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/ARLAYFBOB5FNLD6P2OHIHXT6LI/ Accessed: 24 March 2025 at 2308 EST
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