The federal government’s debiting $80.5 million from New York City’s bank account suggests yes

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    The answer is, as always, “yes, as long as no one stops him”.
    At this point, Trump is simply saying “I will do this, this, and that”, testing to see if anyone will say “no, you can’t!”

    But apparently, no one will.

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    Donald Trump can do anything he wants. He always has, nobody has ever stopped him, and realistically, nobody ever will.

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    The govt has always been able to garnish wages or sieze assets, yes, which is one of the intended upsides of a decentralized crypto currency (disregarding all of the downsides).

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    So, this is a special situation, as it was a scheduled payment under a contract with NYC, relating to a migrant housing program. The payment was made just before everything got DOGEd, and when DOGE found out, it lost its collective shit and forced the payment to be reversed.

    However, all you really need to make a debit out of a bank account is a routing number, account number, and proper authorization.

    DOGE can apparently manufacture authorization out of thin air. And I bet it has everyone’s routing info and account information from everyone who has ever filed a return with the IRS and used Direct Deposit (or paid by check in the mail).

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      You’re glossing over the most important word:

      The payment was made just before everything got DOGEd

      It was a valid payment, not made in error. They decided after the fact that they didn’t like the valid payment, and reversed it. This likely involved fraud, because that’s not a valid reason to reverse a payment.

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        Not a valid reason according to who? The monkeys are running the circus now. There are no rules.

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        This likely involved fraud, because that’s not a valid reason to reverse a payment.

        Well, DOGE would totally say “No U” and assert that the program was fraudulent in the first place, because they don’t agree with it politically.

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    Sounds like a good reason to move my money outside the reach of the US government. I’m sure that will help boost our economy and provide certainty.

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        21 hours ago

        We usually stop him after 1 hour little guy’s heart just doesn’t work like it use to. But 5 burgers an hour to answer your question.

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          5 burgers an hour

          Pathetic. You elected that loser as a king? I bet Orban can eat 10 per hour!

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            No! He can totally eat 10 if we didn’t stop him! Besides Orban is a DEI hire. /s