MS NOW host Rachel Maddow on Monday mocked President Donald Trump over his current string of authorized defeats, enumerating a sequence of courtroom rulings in opposition to him earlier than asking viewers, “Shall I keep going?” — after which doing simply that for a number of extra minutes.
Maddow started with the Trump administration’s efforts to focus on Democratic-led states by chopping $7.5 billion in clean-energy grants carried out beneath former administrations, just for a federal decide to deem these cuts “unlawful.”
“The Trump administration decided … that just in blue states, just in states that didn’t vote for Trump, they would cut all of that funding. They’d leave the funding in place in states that voted for Trump, they would cut it in states that didn’t vote for Trump,” Maddow stated.
“A federal court today ruled that ruling is illegal and stopped the Trump administration from doing that,” she continued. “That ruling today came after another federal court today stopped Trump from shutting down a big offshore wind farm in Rhode Island and Connecticut.”
Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia reportedly dominated that the suspension of this $6.2 billion wind farm challenge aiming to energy greater than 350,000 houses and companies in each states was in “capricious” violation of federal legislation.
“So that work on the wind farm will be able to go ahead,” stated Maddow. “Both of those rulings today follow last night, yet another federal court blocking Trump, this time from cutting funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics.”
The MS NOW host famous that the academy — the biggest group of pediatricians within the U.S. — had lately criticized the “flock of ducks-level insane quackery” being imposed beneath Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Trump responded by canceling federal grants for the American Academy of Pediatrics,” stated Maddow. “A judge has now ruled that that was illegal retaliation. And so Trump is blocked from doing that — that funding has to be reinstated.”
She continued by citing one other ruling that didn’t fall within the president’s favor, noting that Judge John Chun of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has reportedly blocked Trump from chopping off federal election funds to states that didn’t comply together with his calls for.
“Shall I keep going?” Maddow requested. “I can keep going.”
Keep going she did, noting {that a} federal courtroom final week blocked Trump from freezing billions of {dollars} in youngster care subsidies in Democratic states “as some kind of punishment” for the adults there who determined to vote for anyone else.
“Because, you know, ‘What Would Jesus Do?’” Maddow quipped.
Maddow famous that it isn’t simply judges who’re opposing Trump, as even 5 Republican senators lately joined Democrats in backing a War Powers Resolution to dam Trump from any additional army operations in Venezuela.
“It’s almost like he is losing all the time and everywhere now,” stated Maddow.
She added that this decision intently adopted 17 House Republicans breaking with Trump over his “big, beautiful” invoice to move a three-year extension of expanded Affordable Care Act medical insurance subsidies that had lapsed firstly of the 12 months.
“I mean, what we’ve just seen in Congress is one of the worst rebukes Trump has had from congressional Republicans since he has been back in office this whole disastrous year,” stated Maddow. “And I gotta tell you, this didn’t get as much attention as it should.”
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