DK readers and posters: I hope that you like your daily helping of Mango Mussolini corruption sunny-side up. Here’s another helping of in-your-face grift to “savor” along with the $400M jumbo jet bribe.
(NOTE: I have edited and revised this post for greater clarity after seeing several responses to my original post mistakenly reference disaster recovery issues other than reimbursement of state and local law enforcement personnel costs.)
For those of us who weren’t already going through the MAGA House-passed Big Beautiful Bill Act (aka 2025 House Budget Train Wreck), I’ve posted a screenshot (from my PC) of podcaster Adam Mockler pointing out Sec. 60004. State and local law enforcement presidential residence protection of this budgetary train wreck/US Treasury heist legislation. Here, he is highlighting subsection 60004(a) Presidential residence protection.
If you read the text under that heading, you see $300 million in FEMA funds being appropriated for “the reimbursement of extraordinary law enforcement personnel costs for protection activities directly and demonstrably associated with any residence of the President that is designated pursuant to section 3 of the Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976 …”
If I read this legislative text correctly, it seems that Mango Mussolini’s accomplices in the House MAGA Republican caucus have approved an all-but-blank check to siphon off a huge chunk of FEMA’s already-decimated budget to pay for a massive build-up of state and local law enforcement personnel at all of his golf courses and Trump Tower (if he still owns it) in the event of some undefined “national emergency.”
Am I being paranoid, or is this little “Easter Egg” intended to back up a future declaration of martial law under false pretext(s)? This is why African Americans like myself have been “laying in the cut” rather than show up in protest rallies in numbers that might prompt this theofascist low-life to “let loose the dogs and fire hoses” like the late Eugene “Bull” Connor (former Birmingham AL Commissioner of Public Safety) did in 1963.
Understand that this is not the only “Easter Egg” planted in this abominable piece of legislative bull manure to help tRump and his technofascist billionaire bros deep-six American democracy (Mockler reveals more of these “gems” in his podcast). It is, however, key to funding the execution of a future presidential declaration of martial law. In addition, this provision would effectively defund FEMA as a credible federal resource for disaster relief.
The link for Adam Mockler’s podcast is:
Below is the text of SEC. 60004. STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE PROTECTION from H.R. 1 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (pages 465-466):
SEC. 60004. STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE PROTECTION.
(a) PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE PROTECTION.—In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $300,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for the reimbursement of extraordinary law enforcement personnel costs for protection activities directly and demonstrably associated with any residence of the President that is designated pursuant to section 3 of the Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–524) to be secured by the United States Secret Service.
(b) AVAILABILITY.—Funds under subsection (a) shall be available only for costs that a State or local agency—
(1) incurred or incurs on or after July 1, 2024;
(2) can demonstrate to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency as being —
(A) in excess of the costs of normal and typical law enforcement operations;
(B) directly attributable to the provision of protection described in such subsection; and
(C) associated with a non-governmental property designated pursuant to section 3 of the Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–524) to be secured by the United States Secret Service; and
(3) certifies to the Administrator as being for protection activities requested by the Director of the United States Secret Service.
Please note that nothing in this section refers to any cost other than state and local law enforcement. If FEMA is shut down, US states and territories—and DC—will be on the hook for all other disaster recovery costs.
This is why I raised a red flag about a militarized “emergency response” following a presidential declaration of martial law. Also note that subsection (b)(1)(C) potentially covers all tRump properties, as I noted in the original version of this post.
Now, before you reach for your clutching pearls, understand that I’m not sharing this information with you to give you an excuse to whine about the “inevitable” triumph of theofascism in America. I don’t do whine and cheese.
No; I’m assigning you some necessary political homework. I’m asking you to share this information with your US senators so that they can help to shut down this criminally fascist raid on the US Treasury. Please email or text your senators with an attached copy of this post, if you can. Also, share this post with the people you know, including anyone you may still speak to who voted for tRump this past November. Ask those tRump voters that you may still speak to if this is what they voted for (You and I certainly didn’t). If they share your concern/anger at this grifting ploy, ask them to contact their senators, too.
As a DC resident, I pay taxes but am unrepresented in the Senate. Nevertheless, I am sharing this piece with people I know who live in other states who can pull their senators’ coats.
We are all comrades in this struggle to free our crippled-but-still-standing democracy from tyranny’s clutches. My motto, going forward is: Don’t Whine—Work for the Win!
Sweep the creeps out of Congress next year!
Sweep the gangsters out of the White House in 2028!
Aluta Continua!
