New York Got $80 Million for Migrants. The White House Took It Back.
New York Got $80 Million for Migrants. The White House Took It Back.
The New York City comptroller’s office, which first noticed the missing money, said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had unilaterally taken the funds from the city’s accounts.
To be clear: this isn't the "we stopped paying promised grant money" but is literally the federal government yanking money out of an NYC bank account.
Wait a second, the federal government takes money back from New York City, but Trump and Musk are running around cutting every program in site and nobody is talking about refunding the taxpayers? Gtfo…
They are working on a tax cut bill.
I don’t want a tax cut. I wanna reimbursement because the truth is, we authorized our government to spend that money years ago. In some cases like USAID -we authorized the spending of that money decades ago.  if the United States government doesn’t want to spend that money anymore than there should’ve been legislature, but also they don’t get a free check to just spend it on whatever the fuck they want. They should have to pass new legislation before they spend any more taxpayer money on new projects. And since they haven’t passed any new legislation, they should give us our money back. 
if we set the precedence that the government can change, budget funding strategy like this, it would allow the government to raise billions of dollars for one purpose , and then suddenly take that billion dollars, and spend it on something that it wasn’t originally meant for.
Edit;; corrected word precedence. 
@silence7 And this is why you NEVER sign up for automatic payments and give someone access to your bank account.
Mind you, NYC accepted a deposit from the federal government. Kinda like your employer deciding they didn't feel like giving you your last paycheck, and yanking it back.
Was it made in error? No?
File a dispute with the bank for unauthorized withdrawal.
It's theft. Brazen, straight up theft. Imagine what's happening where we can't see.
Nuh uh