This Foreign Aid Agency Locked Its Doors To Keep DOGE Out. Now We Know Why

[Athanasius68]

Why is Scotus accepting the USAID case? Trump can't control everything. He thinks he can, but SCOTUS is going to decide. Now, I realize trump has no reason to obey any court, so this new philosophy of presidential supremacy is totally unconstitutional, but desirable to trump supporters.

Shrug.
Article 2 Sec 1
The executive power of the United States shall be vested in a President of the United States.

 

[Ikari]

lock them up

With Trump

 

[iguanaman]

Why are you scared to talk about the subject of the thread? Thats seems to be a common theme for the lefties here.

It is an evidence free conspiracy theory, Why do we need to talk about it? When the DOJ hands down indictments get back to me. We are a nation of laws in case you forgot and only fools take everything they read on the internet as facts.

 

[soap box]

Shrug.
Article 2 Sec 1
The executive power of the United States shall be vested in a President of the United States.

Sure , and trump has taken his sharpie to fix it for ya

Article 2 Sec 1.2
All power of the United States shall be vested in a President of the United States.

 

[Absentglare]

So using the money allocated for Africa to fatten their own pockets does nothing for you? I thought all you Dems were all about the brown skinned people.

Our elections determine who represents us in congress, and those representatives control how our country spends money.

Taking that system away and giving Trump the power to dictate is treason, even if you try to hide it under “reducing waste” or whatever other bullshit.

 

[NOLA Dude]

Jesus Christ, dude. You do love to wallow in sewer-worthy news sources. It's no small wonder you're so out of touch with reality. Rosiak is resurrecting a 12-year-old accusation that has long since been resolved.

FMCS Condemns Overtly Misleading Online Article

/PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is issuing this statement to address the recent article by Luke Rosiak which resurrects...

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Maybe you should be asking yourself why the world's richest man is so ardently focused on terminating US foreign aid agencies assisting the world's poorest people in getting the critical services, food, water, and medical care they need to survive, while helping them to get to a position to be able to help themselves? What about all the unnecessary suffering and deaths that will result from it? Does he not care? How does that square with Trump's America First mantra?

Wait so the same agency that was committing fraud wiring the money back to themselves are saying its not true? What a great source

 

[Athanasius68]

It is an evidence free conspiracy theory, Why do we need to talk about it? When the DOJ hands down indictments get back to me. We are a nation of laws in case you forgot and only fools take everything they read on the internet as facts.

If only that had been true during all talk that Trump had CONSPIRED with Russia a candidate in 2016...

 

[The AntiDonald]

I think your talking points machine is glitching.

What part of this agency sending money to Africa only to have it wired back to employees under the table includes Musk?

Where are the indictments? DoGE has been at this now for 4 months. Not one single indictment for fraud. A bunch of stories and some unproven theories, yet no indictments.

 

[holbritter]

A clock is right twice a day, and all that.

 

[NOLA Dude]

 

[NOLA Dude]

• Overall, we rate The Daily Wire Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that align with the conservative right. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to the promotion of propaganda and a few failed fact checks.

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Who cares which websites Dave Van Zandt thinks are biased or not? Do you think because he created his own website that he's the authority on bias?

The lefties here think Mediabiasfactcheck is some magic silver bullet that automatically discredits an article you don't like without you ever showing if anything is inaccurate.

 

[poppopfox]

Who cares which websites Dave Van Zandt thinks are biased or not? Do you think because he created his own website that he's the authority on bias?

Truth matters.

From the link in rhe Daily Wire article -
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.1.0.pdf

3. On February 21, President Trump issued an Executive Order describing USADF as “unnecessary.” Within days, Defendants launched a full-on assault against USADF. First, DOGE gained access to the agency under the false pretenses of modernizing and streamlining USADF’s computer systems. When USADF learned that DOGE was there to kill the agency, USADF staff refused DOGE access to cancel all grants and contracts. DOGE employees began threatening members of theBoard—telling them that unless they carried out DOGE’s plans to strip USADF to its core, the Board would be fired. When that didn’t work, USADF was told that President Trump did not need to follow the required process for advice and consent of the Senate and instead had appointed Pete Marocco as the sole board member(despite there still being four properly appointed board members, none of whom hadreceived any notification of termination).

4. Yesterday, Wednesday, March 5, DOGE staff and Marocco attempted to access USADF’s offices. Plaintiff Brehm had told them that he was President of USADF and that he had instructed staff to not allow Defendants access as they had no legal authority. Undeterred, Marocco and DOGE threatened a security guard with a lawsuit and told the building’s property manager that they would bring in U.S.Marshals and the Secret Service unless they were given access to USADF. Their threats were unsuccessful.

5. Defendants have made clear their intentions: ignore statutory requirements, pretend that leadership of the agency does not exist, and shutter USADF. That is precisely what they did to USADF’s sister agency, the InterAmerican Foundation (IAF). Using the same bullying tactics, they attempted to get access to IAF’s grants and contracts. When that failed, they purported to fire IAF’s President and then announced by fiat that Marocco had been appointed sole boardmember (despite the IAF board also not having been fired). In a closed-door board meeting last Friday, February 28—which consisted of just Marocco in the IAF lobby—Marocco appointed himself acting President of IAF. That night, at Marocco’s direction, Treasury cancelled all but a handful of IAF’s contracts. And two days ago, purporting to act as both President and sole board member, Marocco directed DOGE to cancel all but a few of IAF’s grants, shut employees out of the IT systems, laid off almost the entire IAF staff, and shut down IAF’s website.

The Daily Mail should be ignored as a credible news source, (Journalism101)

 

[Gimmesometruth]

But they don't operate it. That is the constitutional responsibility of the Executive Branch

They have to "operate it" within the rules Congress created, they cannot change the funding and end programs already passed. This is a violation of law.

 

[NOLA Dude]

Truth matters.

From the link in rhe Daily Wire article -
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.1.0.pdf

3. On February 21, President Trump issued an Executive Order describing USADF as “unnecessary.” Within days, Defendants launched a full-on assault against USADF. First, DOGE gained access to the agency under the false pretenses of modernizing and streamlining USADF’s computer systems. When USADF learned that DOGE was there to kill the agency, USADF staff refused DOGE access to cancel all grants and contracts. DOGE employees began threatening members of theBoard—telling them that unless they carried out DOGE’s plans to strip USADF to its core, the Board would be fired. When that didn’t work, USADF was told that President Trump did not need to follow the required process for advice and consent of the Senate and instead had appointed Pete Marocco as the sole board member(despite there still being four properly appointed board members, none of whom hadreceived any notification of termination).

4. Yesterday, Wednesday, March 5, DOGE staff and Marocco attempted to access USADF’s offices. Plaintiff Brehm had told them that he was President of USADF and that he had instructed staff to not allow Defendants access as they had no legal authority. Undeterred, Marocco and DOGE threatened a security guard with a lawsuit and told the building’s property manager that they would bring in U.S.Marshals and the Secret Service unless they were given access to USADF. Their threats were unsuccessful.

5. Defendants have made clear their intentions: ignore statutory requirements, pretend that leadership of the agency does not exist, and shutter USADF. That is precisely what they did to USADF’s sister agency, the InterAmerican Foundation (IAF). Using the same bullying tactics, they attempted to get access to IAF’s grants and contracts. When that failed, they purported to fire IAF’s President and then announced by fiat that Marocco had been appointed sole boardmember (despite the IAF board also not having been fired). In a closed-door board meeting last Friday, February 28—which consisted of just Marocco in the IAF lobby—Marocco appointed himself acting President of IAF. That night, at Marocco’s direction, Treasury cancelled all but a handful of IAF’s contracts. And two days ago, purporting to act as both President and sole board member, Marocco directed DOGE to cancel all but a few of IAF’s grants, shut employees out of the IT systems, laid off almost the entire IAF staff, and shut down IAF’s website.

The Daily Mail should be ignored as a credible news source, (Journalism101)

Thats a civil complaint from the President of the the USADF which was commiting fraud. Did you think that was proof of something?

 

[Athanasius68]

They have to "operate it" within the rules Congress created, they cannot change the funding and end programs already passed. This is a violation of law.

However, what Congress does is give leeway to the Executive on how to spend the money. That's why all these executive orders include a phrase along the lines of 'to an extent permitted by law.'

 

[Gimmesometruth]

However, what Congress does is give leeway to the Executive on how to spend the money. That's why all these executive orders include a phrase along the lines 'to an extent permitted by law.'

I couldn't care less how the WH wants the EO's to be presented, they violate law. You can keep backtracking about how the WH can act, but they are still violating law.

 

[Athanasius68]

I couldn't care less how the WH wants the EO's to be presented, they violate law. You can keep backtracking about how the WH can act, but they are still violating law.

So when Congress passes a law appropriating money that a border wall will be built from point A to point B, then the president will have to build that wall, even if he opposes it.

But if Congress passes a law appropriating money for unspecified border security, and one president wants to use it to build a wall, but the next president wants to use it to place more cameras, guess what happens?

The president in office is the one whose decision is what controls where the money is spent.

That is what happening. And why the district courts are being overturned by appeals courts.

 

[Gimmesometruth]

Congress passes a law appropriating money that a border wall.......

Good evening, I’m Joan Face. Welcome again to “What If?” Each week on the show, we ask a hypothetical question about a specific historical event. Tonight’s question, like all our questions, comes from a Mr. Kevin O’Donnell, age 10, a paperboy from Alton, Illinois. Kevin asks, “What If Superman grew up in Germany, instead of America?”

 

[Athanasius68]

Good evening, I’m Joan Face. Welcome again to “What If?” Each week on the show, we ask a hypothetical question about a specific historical event. Tonight’s question, like all our questions, comes from a Mr. Kevin O’Donnell, age 10, a paperboy from Alton, Illinois. Kevin asks, “What If Superman grew up in Germany, instead of America?”

It's not hypothetical at all.
That is how Congress often structures appropriations.
This is why the appeals courts are tending to side with Trump.

 

[rahl]

It's not hypothetical at all.
That is how Congress often structures appropriations.
This is why the appeals courts are tending to side with Trump.

 

[iguanaman]

If only that had been true during all talk that Trump had CONSPIRED with Russia a candidate in 2016...

There is a ton of REAL evidence of the Trump campaigns collusion with Russia. You know that but choose to ignore it because you are in a cult.

 

[What if...?]

???

Civil disobedience?

Stealing taxpayer money?

And YOU approve of it?

I'm not surprised.

Trump stole money from his charity.

Did you say a single word of recrimination then?

No you did not.

So save your phony sanctimony.

 

[What if...?]

Because Trump isn’t the topic of the thread. Your just upset it validates the very reason DOGE exists.

Even a blind cat can trip over a dead rat from time to time.

 

[Mycroft]

Trump stole money from his charity.

Did you say a single word of recrimination then?

No you did not.

So save your phony sanctimony.

We aren't talking about a charity and we aren't allowing deflections to Trump.

Rejected.

Bye.

 

[What if...?]

If only that had been true during all talk that Trump had CONSPIRED with Russia a candidate in 2016...

The trump tower meeting is still problematic for your position.