States are meant to benefit citizens
I think we’ve gotten this twisted
Some of them sound quite familiar…
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/u...
Giving a President the ability to repurpose money meant for other things towards paying people means giving him the ability to repurpose money meant for paying people towards other things.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
He also calls Trump and his admin's attack on judges a "smear" that is "unprecedented and unfortunate
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
(we are north americans)