WH Orders Agencies To Prep For Trump’s Budget In Yet Another Sign Admin Won’t Face Reality

President Donald Trump arrives to speak in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on November 5, 2020. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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The White House has told federal agencies to plan for President Donald Trump’s February budget proposal for fiscal year 2022, according to the Washington Post, despite the fact that he won’t be in office by then.

One of the administration officials who spoke to the Post said that the White House is “pretending nothing happened” in spite of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory, which Trump has furiously worked to delegitimize with bogus voter fraud claims.

“We’re all supposed to pretend this is normal, and do all this work, while we know we’re just going to have to throw it away,” the official said.

The White House’s budget plans further signal the Trump administration’s undemocratic defiance of the election, which has also involved ordering senior officials from cooperating with Biden’s transition team.

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  1. When it comes right down to it, if it is necessary, then as his first act upon taking office in January 2021, President Joseph R. Biden will order the Secret Service and US Marshals to evict citizen trespasser Trump from the White House. And they will make it so.

  2. Kinda odd, but we did anticipate this.

  3. “We’re all supposed to pretend this is normal, and do all this work, while we know we’re just going to have to throw it away,” the official said.

    So the way to deal with this is to log all of the hours spent doing the work that will be tossed, have someone personal figure out the total of time spent, add on the cost of the people doing the work, and then bill the Trump 2020 campaign. If I were really thorough I would then deduct some of this cost against the appropriate Trump appointed people’s last paycheck.
    Now who is it that is looking after the bottom line, and find where the fraud is?

  4. I’m betting Melania won’t be doing the fucking Christmas decorations though.

  5. Is Trump handing out cyanide capsules?
    This is truly fuhrerbunker-level (depth?) insanity.

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