This is just crazy. Why is congress even bothering with appropriations when Trump can just decide later on what gets paid for.

well its done, SCOTUS allows trump to pause

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/26/supreme-court-pauses-judges-order-usaid-foreign-assistance/80596919007/

Lawsuit got TRO saying don't fire people.
Judge ended up denying the case, fire away!

Lawsuit got TRO saying pay billions in grants by midnight 2/26. John Roberts stepped in and said ignore that order for now.

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Anonymous wrote:We need to stop helping people in other countries and start helping people here.

False choice. We - the richest nation in t the world - can do both.

And yet, thanks to the GOP we are cutting taxes for billionaires and eliminating SNAP and Medicaid.

Disgusting.

We are trillions of $$ in debt and very soon might not be the Reserve currency.

Read up on what is going on in the world around you.

So why are your guys trying to add trillions to the deficit right now?

No one is adding trillions to the annual deficit. It is going down because of DOGE.
I think you mean trillions to the debt.
That happens when you have an annual deficit of trillions of dollars.
The so-called 'trillions in tax cuts' is just maintaining the current tax code. They are comparing the current tax code to the rates under Obama and calling it a tax cut.

Word salad.

Anonymous wrote:In other words, if they don't have this 4-5 trillion in tax cuts, tax rates will go up.

Yes, they will go up a bit to what they were under Obama. This will help a bit with the debt. Extending the expiring cuts will increase the debt.

What makes more sense, overall?

In other words, if they don't have this 4-5 trillion in tax cuts, tax rates will go up.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:We need to stop helping people in other countries and start helping people here.

False choice. We - the richest nation in t the world - can do both.

And yet, thanks to the GOP we are cutting taxes for billionaires and eliminating SNAP and Medicaid.

Disgusting.

We are trillions of $$ in debt and very soon might not be the Reserve currency.

Read up on what is going on in the world around you.

So explain why the budget resolution proposed 1-2 trillion in savings from cutting programs and then proposes a 4-5 trillion tax cut?

I haven't heard of any tax cut, just maintaining the current tax rates. This is being called a tax cut because it is lower rates than before the tax cut was passed.

The late Senator Orrin B. Hatch (R-Utah) said that if we help America only, we can be a good country. We are a great country only when we help others.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to stop helping people in other countries and start helping people here.

False choice. We - the richest nation in t the world - can do both.

And yet, thanks to the GOP we are cutting taxes for billionaires and eliminating SNAP and Medicaid.

Disgusting.

We are trillions of $$ in debt and very soon might not be the Reserve currency.

Read up on what is going on in the world around you.

So explain why the budget resolution proposed 1-2 trillion in savings from cutting programs and then proposes a 4-5 trillion tax cut?

This related to a couple of cases filed re USAID:
On Bsky:
Yesterday Judge Ali granted a motion to enforce his TRO compelling the Trump admin to unfreeze foreign assistance spending.
The govt must pay all invoices and letters of credit drawdown requests by 11:59 pm tomorrow (Weds) and provide any directives related to compliance with his TRO by noon tomorrow.

from the order:

But the blanket suspension
of congressionally appropriated funding that has been challenged and temporarily enjoined was
the result of a categorical order, not any specific finding “about the possibility of waste and fraud.”
Indeed, in defending the challenged action at the Court’s TRO hearing, Defendants did not even
attempt to argue that the agency action was or could be justified based on waste or fraud. And, to
date, Defendants have not adduced any evidence “about the possibility of waste and fraud” beyond
conclusory statements like the one in their motion.

Trying to arrest them might make sense, if that's how they act.

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at the Google aerial pic of USAID in Egypt. Looks like a militarized embassy.

Someone went there to ask if they were following Trump's orders, and the USAID office tried to get him arrested.

When DOGE took over USDS:

In their letter, the staffers noted that the day after Inauguration Day, they did 15-minute interviews with individuals wearing White House visitor badges.

"Several of these interviewers refused to identify themselves, asked questions about political loyalty, attempted to pit colleagues against each other, and demonstrated limited technical ability," the letter said. "This process created significant security risks and was designed to intimidate government employees."

They then said on Feb. 16, DOGE representatives started to try and integrate them into their efforts. They said their actions ("firing technical experts, mishandling sensitive data, and breaking critical systems") contradict the mission laid out in the execu

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/doge-staffers-resign-us-digital-service/

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Anonymous wrote:Rubio and Marocco may be firing all of the USAID employees but their contracts live on (somehow).

Who’s going to pay all these bills? Most USAiD employees are locked out of systems by now.

I don't know. They can tell the judge that, tomorrow. "Sorry, your Honor, er cannot send out the funds because we've fired too many people.".

The judge may not be happy to hear that.

There will be generations of people overseas who think that America does not honor its commitments for the shameful way DOGE/Marocco shut down the agency.

Take a look at the Google aerial pic of USAID in Egypt. Looks like a militarized embassy.

Someone went there to ask if they were following Trump's orders, and the USAID office tried to get him arrested.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to stop helping people in other countries and start helping people here.

False choice. We - the richest nation in t the world - can do both.

And yet, thanks to the GOP we are cutting taxes for billionaires and eliminating SNAP and Medicaid.

Disgusting.

We are trillions of $$ in debt and very soon might not be the Reserve currency.

Read up on what is going on in the world around you.

So why are your guys trying to add trillions to the deficit right now?

No one is adding trillions to the annual deficit. It is going down because of DOGE.
I think you mean trillions to the debt.
That happens when you have an annual deficit of trillions of dollars.
The so-called 'trillions in tax cuts' is just maintaining the current tax code. They are comparing the current tax code to the rates under Obama and calling it a tax cut.