[AMV] President Trump #278 Don't worry

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 14:26 schreef WhiteBeard het volgende:

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Nee hoor, wat zich in de USA ontwikkeld daar zou de gestapo en SS jaloers op zijn.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 08-03-2017 om 12:12:39 I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 14:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 08-03-2017 om 12:12:39 I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy. reageer retweet

Wat een slijmbal. Grab ze gewoon by de Pussy, Snowflake!

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To fund border wall, Trump administration weighs cuts to Coast Guard, airport security

The Trump administration, searching for money to build the president’s planned multibillion-dollar border wall and crack down on illegal immigration, is weighing significant cuts to the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and other agencies focused on national security threats, according to a draft plan.

The proposal, drawn up by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), also would slash the budget of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which provides disaster relief after hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters. The Coast Guard’s $9.1 billion budget in 2017 would be cut 14 percent to about $7.8 billion, while the TSA and FEMA budgets would be reduced about 11 percent each to $4.5 billion and $3.6 billion, respectively.

The cuts are proposed even as the planned budget for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees all of them, grows 6.4 percent to $43.8 billion, according to the plan, which was obtained by The Washington Post. Some $2.9 billion of that would go to building the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, with $1.9 billion funding “immigration detention beds” and other Immigration and Customs Enforcement expenses and $285 million set aside to hire 500 more Border Patrol agents and 1,000 more ICE agents and support staffers.

The plan puts the administration in the unusual position of trading spending on security programs for other security priorities at the southern border, raising questions among Republican lawmakers and homeland-security experts.

“The Budget prioritizes DHS law enforcement operations, proposes critical investments in front line border security and funds continued development of robust cybersecurity defenses,” the draft said. “The Budget aggressively implements the President’s commitment to construct a physical wall along the southern border.”

Overall, funding for ICE would grow about 36 percent to $7.9 billion, while the budget for Customs and Border Protection would increase 27 percent to $14.2 billion.

Michael Short, a White House spokesman, cautioned Tuesday that the Trump administration is still early in the process of working on the budget, which the administration will send to Congress later this month. He and a DHS spokesman, David Lapan, referred other questions to the OMB, which did not respond to requests for comment.

“Trying to draw conclusions this early would be extremely premature,” Short said.

Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R.-Calif.), who supported Donald Trump’s run for president and oversees the House Transportation subcommittee on the Coast Guard and maritime transportation, questioned whether OMB officials are on the same page as President Trump, citing the sea service’s roles in stopping illegal immigration and the flow of drugs into the United States from South America.

“OMB has always treated the Coast Guard like a little piggy bank that they can go after whenever they need money for anything else,” Hunter said. “If the president is serious about getting after the cartels and getting after drug networks, this makes no sense.”

The Coast Guard cuts include deactivating Maritime Security Response Teams, which carry out counterterrorism patrols in ports and sensitive waterways, and canceling a contract with Huntington Ingalls Industries to build a ninth national security cutter, with a potential savings of $500 million.

Rick “Ozzie” Nelson, a former Navy helicopter pilot and national security expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that the decisions would effectively sideline the service in missions in which it could be the most effective.

“If they’re not there to do it, who is there to do it?” Nelson said of port security. “We’re not going to put destroyers and frigates off the coast to protect those ports. That’s a Coast Guard mission and capability.”

At the TSA, the proposed budget cuts, first detailed by Politico, would eliminate four programs that cost the agency $187 million. The programs have been considered a vital piece of airport security and for preventing a repetition of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings after planes are aloft.

Training for what is known as the “armed pilot” program, begun after 9/11, would be eliminated at a savings of $20 million. The training was intended to prepare pilots and crews for an attempted armed takeover of an aircraft.

“If you were on one of the four hijacked planes on 9/11, you’d sure say it was important,” said former TSA administrator John S. Pistole. “To me, it’s a relatively small investment for the potential for the risk-mitigation value. It’s all about how much risk do you want to take on. I would advocate for a reduction in that program but not elimination.”

An additional $57 million would be saved by cutting a program that sends armed teams of highly trained, uniformed agents to sweep airports, train stations and bus terminals. Commonly known as the VIPR teams (for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response), they were deployed to Reagan National Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport, Amtrak’s Union Station and D.C.-area subway stations to guard against terrorist attacks during Trump’s inauguration.

The $45 million in grants that local law enforcement uses to patrol in and around airports also would be eliminated.

The fourth program slated for elimination uses specially trained TSA agents to watch passenger behavior in airports, and particularly as fliers approach checkpoints, to single out those who appear to behave oddly.

The budget proposal said $65 million also could be saved by eliminating that Behavior Detection Officer program. The value of the program was questioned by the Government Accountability Office in a 2013 report, but Pistole, who then headed the TSA, responded that it provided a “crucial layer of security” that brought 2,116 passengers to the attention of law enforcement in 2012, resulting in 30 boarding denials and 183 arrests.

At FEMA, a corner of the federal government whose budgets were beefed up after the 2001 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina, the proposed cuts would slash some programs whose effectiveness has long come under criticism. Research into bio-surveillance threats and other research and development work that gets tens of millions of dollars in federal funding a year would take a 28 percent hit, examples of programs the budget proposal describes as “having failed to show meaningful results.”

But the spending plan — which could cut $361 million from FEMA’s $3.5 billion budget — also eliminates or reduces the federal commitment to helping states and local governments prepare for natural disasters through training, salaries and benefits for staff, coordination and state-of the-art equipment. These grants help communities prepare for emergencies so that local and state governments can coordinate and respond quickly.

Other programs would require localities and states to contribute a greater share than they do now.

Emergency management officials noted that FEMA has for years promoted and refined a national response system that requires local communities to follow the same emergency response strategies. The cuts would undermine that progress, they said, and result in a less sophisticated response to emergencies.

“When you propose not just cuts but draconian cuts, your ability to respond to a disaster can cause lives to be lost and property to be damaged,” said Nick Crossley, emergency-management director in Hamilton County, Ohio, and first vice president of the International Association of Emergency Managers, which represents 4,000 local officials across the country.

He said pouring the money saved from FEMA into border security would be “catastrophic.”

“Defense and security at the border are important,” he said. “But you’re damaging the national system that makes us the strongest country when it comes to being prepared for disasters.”

Homeowners in flood-prone areas of the country also would be levied a surcharge on their flood insurance, according to the document, although the OMB has been asked to come up with a plan to limit the extra payment for homeowners with “lower-value” homes.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 14:53 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Wat had je dan verwacht dat ie zou zeggen, op de internationale vrouwendag?

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 14:54 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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bron

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 13:36 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
Trump agenda vandaag:

* Meeting with Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and chairwoman of Emerson Collective
* Meeting with business leaders on infrastructure plans
* Meeting with Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings
* Meeting with Democratic Representative Peter Welch
* Meeting with Redonda Miller, President of Johns Hopkins Hospital & Medicine
* Meeting with Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior, Representative Daniel Sullivan and Senator Lisa Murkowski
* Meeting with Conservative leadersip for legislative agenda
* Hosting with First Lady Melania Trump dinner for Senator Ted Cruz and Heidi Cruz
* Hosting members of the House Freedom Caucus for an evening of bowling at the White House

Senate agenda vandaag:
* Hearings to examine the nomination of Elaine C. Duke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.

* Hearings to examine investing in America, focusing on funding our nation's transportation infrastructure needs.

* An oversight hearing to examine Indian affairs priorities for the Trump Administration.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:04 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Toch jammer voor die Amerikanen dat allerlei zinnige bureaus flink minder geld krijgen omdat er een of andere megalomane muur moet komen.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:06 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:

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Er komt vooral een enorme belastingverlaging aan voor de rijkste Amerikanen. Die moet ergens van betaald worden.

Kosten van de muur zijn volgens mij maar een schijntje van de kosten van het belastingplan van Ryan.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 14:39 schreef mcmlxiv het volgende:

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Ja klopt wel. De regering Trump is zich aardig richting het Fascisme aan het ontwikkelen. Gelukkig dat jij dat nu ook inziet.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:45 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:
... Trump escortservices.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:32 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
^^ tijd om maar weer eens het een en ander te gaan rapporteren van enkele van dit soort loser-users hier

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 14:26 schreef WhiteBeard het volgende:

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Nee hoor, wat zich in de USA ontwikkeld daar zou de gestapo en SS jaloers op zijn.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:53 schreef Re het volgende:
wanneer is nou de repeal vote?

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:53 schreef Re het volgende:
wanneer is nou de repeal vote?

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 10:49 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
kunnen de BNW linkertjes weer eens opzouten naar het desbetreffende subforum?

2 Persco's van gisteren:

FULL: Tom Price Unveils TrumpCare For All Americans

WATCH: Speaker Paul Ryan Press Conference on Obamacare-replacement bill

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:45 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:
Alsof er nog niet genoeg mogelijke belangenverstrengeling te onderzoeken valt...

China keurt 38 patentaanvragen van Trump goed, waaronder Trump massagesalons en Trump escortservices.

https://apnews.com/8f54b1(...)new-Trump-trademarks

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 16:04 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Maarre, escortbureau?

Trumptaglia is a pimp!

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 16:04 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Maarre, escortbureau?

Trumptaglia is a pimp!

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Republican House leaders have spent months dodging questions about how they would replace the Affordable Care Act with a better law, and went so far as to hide the draft of their plan from other lawmakers. No wonder. The bill they released on Monday would kick millions of people off the coverage they currently have. So much for President Trump’s big campaign promise: “We’re going to have insurance for everybody” — with coverage that would be “much less expensive and much better.”

More than 20 million Americans gained health care coverage under the A.C.A., or Obamacare. Health experts say most would lose that coverage under the proposal.

Let’s start with Medicaid. Obamacare expanded the program to cover 11 million more poor Americans in 31 states and the District of Columbia. The Republican bill would end the expansion in 2020. Although people who sign up before 2020 under the expanded Medicaid program, which covers people with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (about $33,900 for a family of four), would be allowed to stay on, many would be kicked off over time. The working poor tend to drop in and out of Medicaid because their incomes fluctuate, and the Republican plan would bar people who left the expanded program from going back in.

The bill would also, for the first time ever, apply a per-person limit on how much the federal government spends on Medicaid. This change could shift about $370 billion in health care costs over 10 years to state governments, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Many state governments, faced with limited budgets, would be forced to cut benefits or cover fewer people.

For people who buy insurance on federal or state-run health exchanges, the G.O.P. plan would greatly reduce the A.C.A.’s subsidies, which come in the form of tax credits. For example, a 40-year-old living in Raleigh, N.C., who earns $30,000 a year would receive $3,000 from the government to buy insurance, 32 percent less than under current law, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The bill would provide older people more generous subsidies — those over 60 get a subsidy of $4,000, or twice as much as 20-somethings — but insurers would be allowed to charge older people five times as much as younger people.

The plan would do away with the current mandate that requires nearly everybody to obtain insurance or pay a penalty. (Instead, insurers would be allowed to charge people who don’t maintain their insurance continuously 30 percent more for coverage.) But because the legislation would still require insurers to cover pre-existing conditions, people would have a strong financial incentive to buy insurance only when they got sick — a sure way to destroy the insurance market.

House Speaker Paul Ryan and Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, have railed against high premiums and deductibles for plans sold on the health exchanges, but that problem would only worsen under their proposal because insurers would almost certainly raise their prices as the pool of the insured shrank. Republican lawmakers seem to think that people who can’t afford insurance are simply irresponsible. Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah, for instance, told CNN that people should invest in their health care, “rather than getting that new iPhone.” Word to Mr. Chaffetz: Health insurance costs more than $18,000 a year for an average family; an iPhone costs a few hundred dollars.

While working people lose health care, the rich would come out winners. The bill would eliminate the taxes on businesses and individuals (people making more than $200,000 a year) who fund Obamacare. The tax cuts would total about $600 billion over 10 years, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

House committees will start considering the bill on Wednesday. Even if it passes the House, some Republican senators object to the Medicaid cuts and the Tea Party wing hates the idea of retaining any subsidies.

Republicans have been vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act even before it became law in 2010. But they still haven’t come up with a workable replacement. Instead, the G.O.P.’s various factions are now haggling over just how many millions of Americans they are willing to harm.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 16:08 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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of ze bedoelen armed escort, het betrof "bodyguard and escort services"

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:53 schreef Re het volgende:
wanneer is nou de repeal vote?

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 09:53 schreef TheJanitor het volgende:

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Nee, die kunnen wel gewoon kritisch blijven, ook al staan ze zogenaamd aan 1 kant.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 14:54 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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bron

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“No, that’s above my pay grade,” said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary and a feisty Trump loyalist, when asked on Tuesday at an on-camera briefing if he had seen any evidence to back up Mr. Trump’s accusation.

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“No comment,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said earlier in the day.

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“I don’t know anything about it,” John F. Kelly, the homeland security secretary, said on CNN on Monday.

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Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Senator Richard M. Burr, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the Senate intelligence panel, have said they will add Mr. Trump’s request to pre-existing inquiries into intelligence community leaks.

But Mr. Nunes and Mr. Burr said they had not seen specific evidence backing up Mr. Trump’s claim.

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Other Hill Republicans have responded with similar verbal shrugs. Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a member of the Intelligence Committee, said on Tuesday that he “didn’t know what the basis” of Mr. Trump’s statement was.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Je enige recht is het aanrecht.
Je enige rol is een deegrol
Je enige plicht is zwijgplicht
En verder zijn vrouwen net overalls: Mouwen te lang en pijpen te kort.

Dat had ik wel verwacht, in plaats van dit PC-gezever.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 16:26 schreef Re het volgende:

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ja ik had het verkeerd begrepen, vanaf vandaag mogen ze er op schieten

en reconcilliation is inderdaad niet te filibusteren maar kan dus alleen voor die gedeeltes van de ACA waar budget voor nodig is.

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Op dinsdag 7 maart 2017 23:36 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Ja hoor, dat mag, en niet eens van een fake news site zoals Daily Caller

President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia engaged in cyber attacks during the U.S. presidential election and may take action in response, his incoming chief of staff said on Sunday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-cyber-idUSKBN14S0O6

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:08 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Nouja, die 20 miljard die het tegenwoordig al moet kosten moet natuurlijk wel ergens vandaan komen. En hoewel Trump de beste onderhandelaar is, misschien wel de beste ooit, en fantastisch kan bouwen en de beste onderhandelaar is, denk ik dat zelfs hij het Congres niet zover kan krijgen om dat gewoon maar uit te geven zonder op andere plekken te bezuinigen.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 19:07 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Simpel toch, bezuinig op de Coast Guard en de TSA. Klinkt dat als een stupide plan? Dat is het dan ook.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 15:50 schreef WhiteBeard het volgende:

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Ach gut. MMMEEEEESTERRR, hier is iemand die Trump verdedigt. Dat mag toch niet he Meester?

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 16:17 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Nee, dat is fake news. Hij is een pooier.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 19:40 schreef Re het volgende:

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de pre-existing conditions ie er een, en kinderen tot 26 jaar bij ouders, die wil Trump houden maar zijn op zich weer makkelijk te omzeilen (als je maar heel even zonder insurance zit, bijvoorbeeld omdat je wordt ontslagen of je verdient eventjes net teveel boven 133% van de poverty grens dan moet je een stuk meer gaan betalen of je kunt niet meer verzekerd worden).

voor andere als zou ik ff moeten kijken bijv. de Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees (PACE) Act en Consolidated Appropriations Act (Cadillac-tax) maar ik ga eens kijken

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2017 22:39 schreef Ringo het volgende:

The Republican health care bill makes no sense

Cruciale vraag: wat is in godsnaam het doel van die nieuwe ziektekostenwet? Is het wetje-slopen om het wetje-slopen of wordt het land er ook echt beter van?