WE DECIDE: AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS with Jenna Flanagan 2-10-25
The 47th President is quickly executing on Project 2025, the far right agenda of the Heritage Foundation that he thoroughly disowned during his campaign.
Last week, the U.S. Senate confirmed Project 2025’s lead author Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
It’s that agency that last month issued the unprecedented memo pausing billions in already appropriated federal funds set to go to local, county and state governments. And while a federal judge ordered the funds unfrozen, the White House merely rescinded the memo but kept the funding freeze in place, which sets up a Constitutional crisis.
In the A block we discuss the real time impact of that freeze on everything from your local schools to long established federal refugee programs that helped resettle Afghan families that helped the US military during that war.
In the B block we convene a panel of healthcare activists that are mobilizing the Non-violent Medicaid Army that’s already active in a dozen states. Organizers hope that if Medicaid recipients come together they will be able to fight back against denials and cutbacks.
Simultaneously, in less than a month the Trump administration has raced to try and decimate the unionized federal civil service, eliminating agencies like the US Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Elon Musk and his self-styled Department of Government Efficiency, which is not an actual federal agency, has gained unfettered and unprecedented access to the most sensitive federal databases including the U.S. Department of the Treasury payment system.
So far, it’s been unions like the American Federation of Government Employees that represent 750,000 federal workers and good government groups that have had some success in the federal courts holding up some of Trump’s moves like his attempt to offer buyouts to the entire federal workforce.
In the C Block we speak with David Gonzalez, an AFGE national vice president .
Illegally terminated federal officials in agencies like the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission have all vowed legal action.
Throughout the start of the Trump administration the President has been pressing hard on his controversial immigration crackdown. What does this mean for the millions of the immigrants in our essential workforce agriculture?
In the D Block, We Decide national correspondent Lisa Loving has an in-depth conversation with Gerardo Reyes Chavez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fair Food Program about their work, their communities and what they expect next.
