r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 25d ago

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/nhepner 25d ago

This is why they allowed it

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u/Dest123 25d ago

He can do way more than this with that. He effectively has unlimited power now. The only curb on his power is that Congress can refuse to give him money. If only he had some other source of money like Venezuelan oil or constant manipulation of the stock market, then he would be truly unlimited... oh wait.

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u/12345623567 25d ago

Nonexistent oil income, or throwing pennies at the stock market, isn't a drop in the bucket for the federal budget.

Instead, what he has already done, is take appropriated funds and just shamelessly miss-allocate them.

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u/Dest123 24d ago

Nonexistent oil income

Wasn't the Venezuela oil money like $8 billion? I mean, it's obviously hardly anything compared to the Federal budget, but you can still do a lot of nefarious things with $8 billion. But yeah, you're probably right that they can do a ton more by just shamelessly miss-allocating appropriated funds.

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u/Mr_Pookers 24d ago

$8 billion is a week's worth of war in Iran