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child support is a matter of state law and should be enforced by the states. It's hard to reject federal help in going after paternal deaddbeats, but I do fear a slippery slope.

Trump, like a mafia Don, believes that might is right and is weaponizing every possible form of leverage – do what I want OR ELSE (I'll impose high tariffs, I'll kidnap your leader, I'll shoot you in the face, etc.) – in a few cases perhaps for better, but much more often for worse. The tyrranically-inclined may start by going after unappealing characters that the rest of us feel deserve their ill treatment; but before you can say "that's a nice little passport/bank account/social media platform you've got there, too bad if something happened to it," the tyrant is cracking down on Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, and anyone else who tries to resist.

If we don't demand that tryants follow the law even when that seems to protect wrongdoers, the law will cease to be followed even when it protects us.