Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use “every available tool” to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including “withholding administrative funds from states” for the first time in history.
There is no single national program for unemployment support, though the federal government partners with state agencies to support temporary financial assistance to out-of-work Americans. Nearly 2 million people are currently receiving those benefits, while roughly 229,000 people are filing initial jobless claims every week, according to the Labor Department.
Have to imagine this will disproportionately hurt red states and then they’ll blame it on Obama or Biden or something. Really hoping some state will withhold federal taxes but I know our leaders are too spineless for that :[
If you take the top 10 states by unemployment rate, half of them are red states. Top 20, almost 3/4.
It says they will take funding from states that don’t comply with their bullshit so I’m sure the red states will be fine
California funds its own unemployment benefits, of course Trump is too stupid to know this.
Then, magically unemployment will go down and they’ll call it a success. Even though all that’s happened are fewer people qualifying for unemployment, and more than likely it will result in a net increase in unemployed people.
There’s not really a mechanism for withholding federal taxes
Sounds like something easy to fix, just don’t pay them