Additional statistics about the IRA, which Trump and Vance have vowed to defund, from E2 two years into the IRA:

Nearly 60 percent of the announced projects representing 85 percent of the investments and 68 percent of the jobs - are in Republican congressional districts. This despite the fact that no Republican voted for the legislation.

https://e2.org/reports/clean-economy-works-two-year-review-2024/

You’re absolutely right, it’s absurd and that’s the point. For the GOP court to say the FTC can do that, they will expect Congress to pass a law saying “the FTC has the authority to ban non-compete agreements of every kind” but that’s dumb and defeats the purpose of executive agencies, we agree. But that’s the point. Congress will rarely if ever be that specific, so anyone can argue a law is not what they meant and the agencies have no deference.

The end goal is agencies are powerless and Congress is paralyzed, so the judiciary has all of the authority to decide what everything means.

Just the begining after striking down Chevron Deference. Sure, common sense says that is well within the purview of the FTC granted by Congress. But now, without chevron in place, the court is going to say anything that is not word for word directed by congress, is outside of an agency’s jurisdiction.

Minor note, he recently said the president should be able to tell the Fed what interest rates are. He won’t have to do much raging, he can just tell them money is free for Vance and his venture capitalist friends.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/08/trump-fed-powell-bank-2024-elections-00173299

Allegedly 77% in 2020 according to the FL government. I assume that’s among registered voters though, not all eligible.

https://dos.fl.gov/elections/data-statistics/elections-data/voter-turnout/

He’s still not actually paying her. He’s just securing a bond that lets him avoid paying while he seeks an appeal. Just keep kicking the can down the road.

“Donald J. Trump on Friday posted a $91.6 million bond in a defamation case he recently lost to the writer E. Jean Carroll, staving off a potential legal and financial disaster just days before a deadline to secure the deal. The bond, provided by an outside insurance company, will prevent Ms. Carroll from collecting the judgment while Mr. Trump appeals.”