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Trump Firing Commission Overseeing White
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Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 10/29/2025 1:13:20 PM

President Donald Trump’s firing of all members of an independent federal agency expected to review some of his construction projects, including his planned $300 million White House ballroom, has sparked an online backlash. Trump fired six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, a group of architectural experts that advises the federal government on historic preservation and public buildings, on Tuesday. The Washington Post first reported the firings. A White House official told the newspaper that new members who were more aligned with Trump’s "America First" policies would be named to the commission.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: ConservativeYankee 10/29/2025 1:14:26 PM (No. 2023191)
From the article: The six members fired on Tuesday had been appointed to four-year terms—some of which would have extended through 2028—by former President Joe Biden. Biden in 2021 ousted Trump appointees from the commission, as well as the National Capital Planning Commission, with Biden officials saying the moves were to diversify the panels.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JunkYardDog 10/29/2025 1:20:23 PM (No. 2023195)
If there's ONE THING that Trump does well (and he does many, many things well), it's BUILD. He could advise those so-called experts, not the other way 'round. I'm sure they'd leak details tot he press who would then receive their instructions from Sorors on how to attack the project. What good, obedient, little people we have in the MSM! They're just like dogs, the only command they haven't been given yet is BEG.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: sanspeur 10/29/2025 1:21:12 PM (No. 2023196)
remember hilly and billy firing ALL the gov’t lawyers ?? etc .. This is akin to the Kennedy center sillyness rewarding woke folk ..only ..Oh Newsweak ? the rag sold for $1 ? that unbiased woke joke ? like most olde school dead trees ..blah and biased
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Reply 4 - Posted by: vhs68 10/29/2025 1:28:16 PM (No. 2023198)
Well one thing is sure. With the Trumpster wheeling & dealing every week, the demorats don't have to DREAM UP something/anything to complain about. Tip to the demorats: You Are Losing!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: wilarrbie 10/29/2025 1:38:15 PM (No. 2023202)
#3, they fired everyone! That WH travel agency kerfuffle? And the lawyers they canned were mid-investigations on the postal/banking thing. Netted Rostenkowski tho. Fuzzy memory but so much sleeze was flowing it's hard to recall.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 10/29/2025 1:58:03 PM (No. 2023217)
Biden appointed all of them. Now they are fired --- and I am glad, only wishing it had been sooner.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: earlybird 10/29/2025 2:39:53 PM (No. 2023237)
Good.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: chance_232 10/29/2025 2:56:11 PM (No. 2023241)
Ahem......... "Elections have consequences, and you lost" So sayeth Light Bringer Obama.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Hermit_Crab 10/29/2025 3:11:39 PM (No. 2023244)
The mere fact that Trump continues to breathe, "Sparks Fury" in millions.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Red Ghost 10/29/2025 3:16:45 PM (No. 2023247)
Are we all tired of winning yet? No, no and Hell No. Love this stuff. Build baby build.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 10/29/2025 3:39:26 PM (No. 2023256)
Trump petting a puppy or waving at a crowd sparks fury. Who cares? Nobody at all.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 10/29/2025 3:43:11 PM (No. 2023257)
Re #3, that was my first thought, too. Clinton fired ALL the federal prosecutors.....probably to prevent them investigating his massive corruption in Arkansas. Not a peep. Trump fires some unknown commission members and "fury:. Scroom. They wake up in a hysterical rage every day.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Starboard_side 10/29/2025 3:58:26 PM (No. 2023270)
#1 nails it. Democrats only get upset when their planted obstacles are removed.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: BarryNo 10/29/2025 5:38:59 PM (No. 2023296)
They are hardly essential federal employees. There's a shut down going on. Too bad, so sad.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: FormerDem 10/29/2025 6:54:56 PM (No. 2023335)
has this arts commission commented on the monument destructions? if not, i never want to hear from them.
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