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BumRushDaShow

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5. As a note to the thread
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 08:10 AM
Aug 2025

I participated in the CFC for years. Feds can contribute money as a 1-time donation each CFC period (for the year) or have an automatic, per pay period amount of money deducted from your paycheck to do the same. Those funds can then be distributed to one or any number of charitable participants that you designate, a list so large that it is literally compiled in a "booklet".

By removing that "easy" means to support these organizations, which they are continuing to do through cuts of Congressionally authorized funding, but now through the proposed elimination of employee donations facilitated by the government, is to literally starve organizations that HELP people, in order to feed the billionaires (and wannabe billionaires),

I expect they will next try to do a "litmus test" and and attempt to forbid federal employees from doing ANY donations to groups not promoting white Christian supremacy (including those that engage in all manner of bigotry and hate).

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Wow, taking out the CFC... Hugin Aug 2025 #1
" the administration has taken a harsh stance on the government supporting organizations that do not align with Presiden riversedge Aug 2025 #2
Chickenshits!!! oasis Aug 2025 #3
More... littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 #4
We can donate directly to them COL Mustard Aug 2025 #6
So it's not so much a "Stop Work Order," as it is a "Stop Woke Order." (n/t) thesquanderer Aug 2025 #7
As a note to the thread BumRushDaShow Aug 2025 #5
Same SickOfTheOnePct Aug 2025 #10
But employees could get around this and still donate privately, right? ificandream Aug 2025 #11
Yes BumRushDaShow Aug 2025 #12
SMH Solly Mack Aug 2025 #8
There's no limit to his cruelty PatSeg Aug 2025 #9
I've been a retired Fed for over 20 years. I still have the pins I got for participating in the CFC. 50 Shades Of Blue Aug 2025 #13
Current Fed modrepub Aug 2025 #14
Yeah, the participating CFC charities help too many groups Trump wants to suffer! Can't have that! 50 Shades Of Blue Aug 2025 #15
The thing that really pisses me off about him eliminating so many of these programs is that Marie Marie Aug 2025 #16
Here's the list from last year Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #17
I used to volunteer to lead the effort DenaliDemocrat Aug 2025 #18
Gross, un-imaginably cruel Evolve Dammit Aug 2025 #19
TY for donating, and volunteering. Another round of Cruelty... electric_blue68 Aug 2025 #20
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