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Shop NowPresident Donald Trump has Democrats literally “flipping out.” Federal agencies across Washington, CNN screams, “are finding ways to keep funding frozen.” The administration is simply ignoring judges who thought they “temporarily blocked the White House’s effort to pause trillions of dollars in federal assistance.”
Trump not budging
Not only did President Donald Trump re-freeze judicially thawed frivolous spending, FEMA “clawed back $80 million intended to help New York City house migrants.” Over at the EPA, staffers are popping Prozac like candy.
They had to shelve “more than 30 grant programs, including some providing money for schools to buy electric buses.” The “White House argues that it’s rooting out illegal spending inside the federal bureaucracy, saying that the DOGE-directed cuts being made are targeting waste, fraud and abuse.”
USAID contractors simply can’t believe that they might not get paid. President Trump was ordered by judges to fork over the cash and he hasn’t. They have “hundreds of millions of dollars” worth of contracts hanging in the wind. Meanwhile, administration officials keep telling them to get over it. The suspensions, they insist, “are lawful and comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders.” No matter what the courts have to say about it.
“Any court that would say that the president or his representatives – like secretary of the treasury, secretary of state, whatever – doesn’t have the right to go over their books and make sure everything’s honest… I mean, how can you have a country? You can’t have anything that way. You can’t have a business that way. You can’t have a country that way,” The president noted.
The way the White House figures, President Trump has “broad powers over federal spending.” The lawsuits claim they’re “violating Congress’ powers over government spending” but they’re going to do it anyway. Injunctions or no injunctions.
The official policy seems to be ignore any “federal judge’s orders to turn funding back on.” In one case, they rescinded the memo. That’s all they did, not handing over a disputed dime.
A state of upheaval
CNN is desperate to prove to the public they’re still relevant. The few of their staff who survived the mass layoffs rounded up everyone they could reach on short notice for a round table on the crisis.
“Interviews with more than two dozen administration officials, government contractors and activists” didn’t ease their Trump related anxiety. It only made it worse.
When added to what they had previously dredged up in court filings, they’re faced with the realization the president might actually make America great again.
Their sources “reveal the degree to which federal spending remains in a state of chaos as Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency move rapidly to ax spending.”
According to Jason Walsh with the BlueGreen Alliance, “people are just flipping out, and most of them are being careful about what they say.” He was over at the EPA on February 7. Grantees, he explained, “whose funding was paused, restarted and then paused again,” were in a mix of “panic, confusion and anger.”
If Trump doesn’t back down and listen to the federal judges they’re toast. “Contracts are going to get broken if this doesn’t stop, and workers are going to get laid off. I didn’t anticipate how fully brazen they’d be in ignoring the courts.“
