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2025-02-21 Home Front: Politix

Report: Trump Suggests Federal Government ''Take Over'' and Govern D.C.

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Posted by Fred 2025-02-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 I don't know ... with all the newly jobless, soon to be homeless, wandering the streets looking for a latte, that may not be a prudent move.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-21 00:29|| 2025-02-21 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 He'd have to fire the "fundamentally non-serious" choice of Police Chief once he took over.

Posted by Crusader 2025-02-21 01:11|| 2025-02-21 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 IIRC, Congress will have to authorize this. And Congress hasn't been doing squat for decades.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-02-21 01:58|| 2025-02-21 01:58|| Front Page Top

#4 It belongs to Congress. They decided to 'out source' it to avoid accountability. Anything that isn't federal or foreign should revert back the Maryland just as the land was returned to Virginia across the Potomac.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-21 07:37|| 2025-02-21 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Well there wasn't supposed to be a city there - just government buildings... the city just grew (much like mushrooms in a manure pile). Rather than trying to govern it, remove it - no non-governmental buildings or activity within the DC boundaries. That'll have the advantage of making the congresscritters have to drive out of town for their chardonnay and hookers.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-02-21 09:01|| 2025-02-21 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 "There is a rumor that Soylent Green(tm) is displaced Federal workers."
"I've heard. It does taste rather bitter lately."

Posted by SteveS 2025-02-21 09:57|| 2025-02-21 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 As we walk this path, centralization of power and exec orders is something the bad guys druel over. We must bear in mind the precendent being set AND the clock is ticking from JAn 20. I do not fear the next 4 years, I fear what follows. "Dem's" don't have a strategy, but i doubt "Dem's" have been running the show since at least 2008. Behind the curtains you might find someone(s) feeding this machine as part of a Bond villian-esque larger plan.

Posted by jefe101 2025-02-21 11:31|| 2025-02-21 11:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Having so much of the federal government concentrated in DC has turned into a very bad system. It may have made sense in 1790, but modern communications, air & space travel, etc. have rendered such concentration more trouble than it's worth. Why not disperse federal functions all around CONUS?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-02-21 11:45|| 2025-02-21 11:45|| Front Page Top

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