Posted on 03/07/2025 6:25:52 AM PST by Red Badger
I thought this was 2 billion dollars for work that had already been performed. That makes this no big deal. Of course work that has already been performed gets paid for.
Well, the Democrats certainly started this idea of ignoring the Supreme Court, didn’t they?
This is also about sending money out of the country where the money trail can’t be audited by the U.S. government. A lot of this money has been leaving the U.S. and then returning to the right people. Trump has every right to refuse to comply with this order.
Andy Jackson (D) TN..................
No he shouldn’t ignore the SCOTUS. This is not the way to do things.
The ruling about the 2.1 billion in USAID money isn’t what the media is saying. The money was already owned to Contractors that had completed the work (or so they say). Now, they may have done nothing of importance and billed the government, but the point is they did the job that they were contracted for. We the People, while we might disagree with the spending, don’t have a right to deny them payment AFTER the fact.
For the record, and for those that are going to disagree: I don’t support what Biden did. I think USAID was a treasury theft process for Democrats and their supporters. I think that USAID employees that authorized non-sense projects should be unemployed and investigated for conflicts. I think that the Democrats entire ‘war chests’ of political money was dependent upon schemes like USAID and ACT Blue (formerly ACORN) to undermine the citizens of the US. That being said, we should pay the bills for the services that were completed and LEARN FROM THIS.
Why not? Biden did.
Sounds like Amy Q Barrett and Johnny Roberts are corrupt and on the take.
interesting. “a three legged stool with one leg standing, one leg folding and one leg broken while each leg is determining the condition of the other two is not what the Founders quite envisioned” L.Star
Trump should treat them like the DOGE post - refuse to respond to the 5 bullets and we will take that as your resignation. Don’t take up and address key cases on their merits and I will take that as your resignation, move you out of your office, and nomnate a successor for confirmation by the Senate.
It’s called doing your effin job.
I thought this was 2 billion dollars for work that had already been performed.
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Let’s hope they showed their work
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3xactly. Pres Trump gets to cut any further funding once the co tracts have been “honored” legally. Although I think the pr3sident should. Have discretion to stop funding before they are honored IF fraud was taking place. American taxpayers should not be on the hook for funding fraud and abuse imo, no more than we should be on the hook for paying for murder of unborn children, and trannie surgeries and tampons in men’s bathrooms etc etc etc. But, apparently no one in the conserva4ive party feels strongly enough to try to put a stop to the fraud and waste. Until doge that is.
On top of that, it won't accomplish anything. There will be a lot of people in the federal government, even some of his own appointees, who will refuse to defy Supreme Court orders.
I agree. It appears to me that a pretty good number of the DNC owned Feral judges were in on the planning to bring down Trump and Doge. It’s gonna be government fraud, waste and abuse all the time as usual. Screw the U.S. taxpayers. The far-left’s next big gig will be to completely reopen the border and to pay the bastards “reparations” for what DOGE and the American taxpayers did to them on their Trail of Tears better life pickup ride “journey” to the Limited Edition, better life, “American Dream.”
Barret has turn into a Roberts big government backer
I agree with you Pete. to ignore SCOTUS is to go down a very slippery slope which is almost unrecoverable. However, every legal means should be used.
There was a very good article posted here yesterday purporting to give insight to what the court did in this, and it is actually better than it appears. In my understanding, the USSC sent it back to the judge and said, try again.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/little-red-hens-thursday-march-6
I agree completely .
“I thought this was 2 billion dollars for work that had already been performed.”
Exactly right. Author Curtis Hill clearly does not understand that. If the “work” was performed under a valid government contract, then pay them.
But give all of the recipients an anal exam audit the likes of which they’ve never seen before. Look for strict compliance with the Scope of Work. Make sure the work was performed during the Period of Performance. Make sure the recipient has complied with all the onerous government reporting requirements to the smallest jot and tittle. Do the same for any and all subcontractors.
I’d wager such audits would turn up lots of “irregularities” and we could get a lot of money back. Threaten tough legal action for any and all “irregularities.”
USAID) is audited primarily by its Office of Inspector General. The last thing we need is the fox auditing the henhouse. President Trump should get DOGE to lead the audit and DOGE should bring in a big name external auditor with no ties to the government. Put them under the microscope and through the wringer.
No, he didn't.
The Supreme Court decisions he supposedly defied were comparatively narrow, outlawing only the specific loan forgiveness programs Biden tried to initiate. When one was barred by the Supreme Court, they'd put together a different program, using different legal justifications and code sections as authority, and try to get that one through. But once a particular program was shut down, Biden did not defy that specific ruling.
That may seem like a distinction without a difference, but legally, there is a huge difference. And the bottom line is that massive loan forgiveness never did happen.
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