I don't think the American people should be accepting this fear that is being generated in the media that America's court system cannot stop the Trump administration shutting down of government agencies, ignoring Congressional passed laws. The media keeps raising this question what will we do if the Trump administration ignores Court orders! America's government will do the same thing that it would have done if a Presidential administration tried to ignore the rule of law fifty year ago, one hundred years ago or one hundred and fifty years ago, that is, people in the Presidential administration will be sent to jail under contempt orders! It the issue is an agency shutting down funding on a program in contravention of the law and the Federal Court orders funding to be reinstituted and that order isn't being carried out, the Judge orders the plaintiff in the case to issue a subpoena or subpoenas to appear before the Judge for the person or persons who would be able to tell the Judge who is the person on staff in that agency that has the practical power to reinstate the funding and what action must be taken by that person and the Judge orders that person with the power to take the requisite action and if they don't they are held in contempt and sent to jail. There is no reason for the American people to reinvent the wheel here in our Democracy people even elected officials don't ignore court orders, no one is above the law!
I haven't heard in the media anyone make these points which I believe hold wisdom, the Republicans want to fold the work that the current USAID agency does into the U.S. state department. That is a foolish move because it will subject America's aid programs to the variations of which political Party holds the White House and its agendas. For example let us take today the American government has changed its position towards Venezuela because its leader Nicolas Maduro has agreed to accept back Venezuela illegal immigrants even though Maduro stole the last election and the Biden administration tried to pressure Maduro to accept the results that issues dropped; further there is a whole list of authoritarian and not good countries that are expressing support and good will for the Trump administration because they see President Trump as supporting authoritarianism. The bottom line is that U.S. humanitarian and economic aid should be distributed based on apolitical considerations on need and fairness the best way to accomplish this is to keep the funding in a separate agency like USAID. I think Republicans are missing an opportunity here to really legislatively reform the agency. I think the legislative framework behind the agency probably is outdated like from around the 1970s where America had much greater prosperity where it could afford to be spending money on promoting and fostering Democracy and questionable expenditures. What makes sense is to tighten up the rationale for the program let it be that America is the most prosperous country in the world we have second to none corporations like Microsoft, Apple and Google which places a moral obligation on us to try to help those areas of the world where the societies cannot feed and provide basic health care for their people and the American program that does this is the U.S. AID program it is a "humanitarian" aid program stop the expansive rationales its purpose is not to promote America's soft power or to block countries who we have serious problem with from gaining influence although such things are ancillary benefits. Redefine it as not only solely a humanitarian program but one that does not get involved in or support social agendas meaning it does not promote, support transgender programs especially pay for such surgeries, the American people do not uniformly support such activities so neither will the U.S. government. The programs mandate shall band things like funding of all types or arts programs and non-degree education program funding (like we don't pay for people to travel to Paris for Paris fashion week even though they may work in the fashion industry for that is wasteful) and limit any economic development funding to like twenty-percent of the entire program, the mandate should be solely for humanitarian funding: food, medicine and housing!
One other thing with how Congress should change the U.S. AID program Senator Jon Ernst today wrote an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal today identifying major problems with the program one being that the staff that runs the program often hides an accurate description of the funding they record it as funding to pass through organizations whose image is innocuous so not as to flag it as bad spending. What I think Congress should do is give the respective oversight Congressional Committee (both House and Senate) absolute power to put a hold on up to thirty percent of the program's funding if the agency isn't fully cooperative in the record keeping of their spending so that there is full transparency on how the appropriated money is being spent and if the committee is abusing the authority and only if a Judge can rule as such and take away the committees power to make such holds for five years. One last item is that the Senator Ernst article referenced how some of funding goes to entities that don't actually do the humanitarian work and these third parties actually take a cut in some cases up to one-half of the entire program funding. I suspect that in some of these cases it is basic corruption the political powers that be are taking their cut by siphoning off funding in this matter. What I am about to propose could not be done tomorrow but it could be done long-term and it would clip the wings of people in authority being corrupt taking a cut of the money earmarked for humanitarian purposes and thus would diminish corruption at least American paid for corruption in these needy countries! The plan would be to have a U.S. AID world wide payment system that would be able to transfer funds to even small banks in even the remotest countries specifically each workers bank account and if a remote area doesn't have a bank than maybe funds could be transferred to debit cards that operate in the area. So that instead of giving a government health agency in some developing country tens of millions of dollars a month where a portion is siphoned off for corruption all the doctors and nurses that staff the clinics that America funds there would be paid directly by U.S. AID and the medicines those clinics use would be paid directly by US AID so US AID funding would go further because money would not be wasted in being diverted for corruption. I wonder If when America overthrew Saddam Hussein around 2004 and was funding the Iraqi government or when America was propping and funding the Afghanistan government after 2001 it didn't have a payment system that directly funded government workers, is there something that could be replicated?
The other thing where I don't think the media is fully informing the American people is on the issue of the Trump Administration's shuttering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau what the Trump Administration is doing is exactly what Congress expected a Presidential administration to try to do and is exactly what Congress wanted them to not succeed in doing, so if America is country where law is supreme and Congressional intent in a law should be given effect in enforcing the law the Trump Administration should not succeed. What the media should be educating the public on is not only the administrative rules that this agency has issued that have helped the American consumer but anyone that really understands the subject of this agency knows that the real value of this agency the reason why you don't want to see this agency sent to the trash bin is that this agency scares the beJesus out of the Banks and Financial Institutions across America they know they have to be very careful not to take advantage of the American Consumer because if they do the CFPB will hurt them and hurt them bad! If America did not have the CFPB the American consumer would probably be paying at least $40 for bouncing a check or on overdraft fees for Debit cards and it would be a hundred times harder to get credit card companies to lower balances or get credit card relief and to do a refinance on a home mortgage when interest rates drop! Why don't the Republicans just pursue the long standing improvement for the CFPB which is that instead of having one person hold the enormous power of this agency establish and give the power to a five person board so it would be harder for the agency to abuse its power and be unfair to a Financial Institution!
Another reminder, when the police get there, what happens has already happened.
Illegal faces deportation after wrong turn in San Diego MSM doesn't mention ended up at the entrance to a Marine base.
China's Xi stands with Putin at Russia's Victory Day parade
