Liveblog - ICYMI: December 18, 2024

Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.

Economy:

JUST IN: The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by 0.25% to a new range of 4.25% to 4.5%. Perhaps even bigger news is that the Fed is scaling back the number of rate cuts for next year due to concerns over inflation in 2025.

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2024-12-18T19:13:55.609Z

The Fascist Guy and His Brownshirts:

QUINNIPIAC POLL:“Voters 53 – 41 percent disapprove of businessman Elon Musk playing a prominent role in the Trump administration.”poll.qu.edu/poll-release…

Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T19:07:16.989Z

Craven Assholes:

Elon Musk is having a significant impact on the operations of the Federal government.

Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T19:52:34.504Z

Fox & Friends asks Mike Johnson to respond to an Elon Musk tweet live on air

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2024-12-18T14:55:23.957Z

GOP senator blocks proposal to protect federal workers from Trump 

Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt (Mo.) on Tuesday blocked a request by Democratic senators to pass legislation to protect federal workers from civil service reforms that President-elect Trump has endorsed to fight what he calls the “deep state” in Washington, D.C.
 
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (D) stood on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon to ask for unanimous consent to pass the Saving the Civil Service Act, warning there have been “attempts in recent years to erode the independence of the federal civil service,” referring to Trump’s efforts during his first term. 
 
Kaine and other Democrats fear that Trump, now reelected, may attempt to reclassify tens of thousands of federal workers as political appointees who could be hired and fired at will.
 
Kaine argued that federal workers need to keep their civil service

Musk is now working furiously against Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and is trying to shut the government down right before Christmas.

Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T19:43:50.683Z
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