The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is deciding the fate of President Donald Trumps second term thanks to a case involving nearly $2 billion in foreign-assistance payments.
On Jan. 20, Trump issued an Executive Order titledReevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid. The orders purpose was to enact a 90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance for assessment of programmatic efficiencies and consistency with United States foreign policy.
It is the policy of the United States that no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President, the order stated.
Thanks to Trumps creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the executive branch hasuncovered massivewaste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money by the federal government, including at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
As most expected, the wounded bureaucratic state is lashing out. Its seemingly unlimited money supply is ending and they are looking for any way to force Trump to keep the funding flowing. First, they tried to get the American people on their side. The propagandists in the liberal media peddled stories like women dying in remote hospitals due to the lack of USAID funds for their treatment. But it didnt work. The American people love DOGEs efforts to end the federal governments parasitic funding scheme.
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Now, they are moving on to legal action. Trump and/or the U.S. government are involved in several lawsuits, ranging from firing federal workers to stopping foreign assistance payments. The idea is to get the judicial system to weaken the executive branchs power to end Trumps momentum through lawfare.
This is where SCOTUScomes in. The United States District Court for the District of ColumbiaorderedTrump (through the State Department and USAID) to pay nearly $2 billion as an interim remedy for reimbursements on foreign aid-related contracts and grants for work completed before Feb. 13. The courtgaveTrump just 30 hours to make the payments.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harrisappealedto the Supreme Court, asking them to vacate the lower courts temporary restraining order and an administrative stay against paying almost $2 billion in federal assistance payments.
Harris argued that the Trump administration has followed the lower courts order not to rely on the executive orders blanket suspension or termination of foreign-aid funding. However, Trumps additional requirements to give universal relief are outside of what Article III of the U.S. Constitution allows district courts to mandate.
We are witnessing utter judicial tyranny here.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris lays out the absurdity, and damage done to our constitutional order, due to a district court judges issuance of a TRO to halt the Trump administrations firing of the leader of the Office ofpic.twitter.com/ZOSppKsjYr
What the government cannot do is pay arbitrarily determined demands on an arbitrary timeline of the district courts choosing or according to extra-contractual rules that the court has devised, she wrote. That mandate creates an untenable payment plan at odds with the Presidents obligations under Article II to protect the integrity of the federal fisc and make appropriate judgments about foreign aidclear forms of irreparable harm.(Establishment Republicans Rear Their Ugly Heads In Opposition To Trumps Biggest Win Yet)
Essentially, Trumps ability to prevent the bureaucratic state from funding programs antithetical to his America First agenda is at stake.
On Wednesday, SCOTUSgranteda temporary stay in both the cases against Trump and the State Department, giving the executive branch temporary relief from abiding by the district courts order to pay the plaintiffs the nearly $2 billion. The plaintiffs have until noon on Friday to file any response to Harris application.
The SCOTUS decision, in this case, will determine if Trump can prevent agencies like USAID from making foreign assistance payments to organizations and programs that deter his agenda or if a single federal district court has the authority to supervise the federal governments contracting decisions regarding foreign aid, which has long been a discretionary power granted to the executive branch.
Whichever way SCOTUS decides will set the tone for the next four years of the Trump administration.
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