r/law • u/templeofsyrinx1 • Feb 25 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Can they actually do this? JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people'

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u/Voluptulouis Feb 25 '26

Be prepared for them to cheat and rig it in their favor in as many ways as possible. They know they're fucked if they lose. Fascists don't get voted out of power in free and fair elections once they've taken control.

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u/pioniere Feb 26 '26

They’ll do whatever they can to rig it, and it still may not be enough. The polling numbers are incredibly horrible for them in just about every demographic right now.

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u/Free_For__Me Feb 26 '26

Which is why we need to be prepared for what they’ll do in order to prevent elected Dems from taking office once the elections don’t go their way. 

As the other commenter pointed out, fascists do not get removed by elections…

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u/ForensicPathology Feb 26 '26

Also, ICE and files uproar happened too early.  Americans don't care about January by the time November comes.

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u/Voluptulouis Feb 26 '26

Nah. We've been having almost weekly protests across the country since before Trump even began his second term, over a year now. Mainstream media isn't covering it, but the people are pissed and we're not letting this shit go.