ZenMode
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Ok. So, if we're talking about matters related to use of federal funding, which I'm assuming is what is in question here, which district judge would have jurisdiction over the Executive branch? DC?
DOGE Catch-All | DOGE ledger “riddled with errors”
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After you quit asking stupid questions. Of course, I probably won't live that long.
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The answers to your questions in that post are incorrect.
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lawtig02
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Depends on the funding. Most federal funding impacts every corner of the country, so any district judge could have jurisdiction over a challenge, as long as the plaintiff has standing.
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You misinterpret that post you link to. That has nothing to do with a district court’s jurisdiction vs. appellate court jurisdiction.
ZenMode
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It would be virtually impossible for any one person to have a complete understanding of every federal expenditure. Projects like this one bring things to light that probably 99% of Americans would never know about.
It also brings to light just how loosely our representatives handle taxpayer money.
MOUNTAINH33L
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Let's just assume he and Musk are telling the truth. Does anyone think that money is going to go back into the public coffers? Helllllll nooooooooo. Any money found will just be looted by Trump and his cabal.
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So now that you know FEMA was ordered by Congress, through the very public legislative process, to spend those funds, you still think it's essential that DOGE be "bringing it to light"? Do you also think the president should defy Congress's direction on this expenditure?
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Might as well get rid of congress and let King Trump take care of everything at this point.
ZenMode
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I do think it's essential that it's brought to light just as the ridiculous USAID expenditures should be brought to light. As to whether or not the President should defy Congress is a question of whether or not he has authority to defy Congress. If he doesn't - no. If he does - yes.
I also wonder if Congress knew that immigrants were being housed in expensive NY hotels or did they just generally approve FEMA money to address housing, not knowing that it was going to be poorly used.
Who decided use NY hotels vs a Motel 6 in the Bronx or housing them in a vacant building or other fiscally responsible options.
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Give it up. You don’t understand because you don’t want to understand. It’s called posting in bad faith, better known as trolling. And you’re not as good at it as you think you are. Just stop.
He's terrible at it. Dumb bastard even let on that I got in his head. What self respecting troll would do that? Just pitiful.
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Along with gtyellowjacket and ZZLPHeels.
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
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He's suggesting that other Presidents have to respect the courts, but trump doesn't.
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I don't know, maybe because no one is above the law, and judges' jobs are to interpret and apply the law?
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You’d prefer they are “housed” on the street?
Again, this was approved through Congress in a bipartisan vote. Our current laws allow immigrants applying for asylum to stay in the country until their court date, not shipped off to another country. Once they are released from their short-term facility, it’s either find them a place to stay (the humane way), or send them out to the streets (the cruel way) to fend for themselves until that court date.
Don’t like the immigration system? Change the laws or improve our current system by adding judges to speed the process up.
But that’s not the true goal of the Trump administration, is it? They don’t want to improve or streamline the immigration process. They want to eliminate it altogether.
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Elon made the claim about “luxury” hotels with zero proof.
“… It was not clear where the $59 million figure came from, and officials did not provide details to AP.
The New York City mayor’s office said it received $81 million in payments from the federal government for immigration-related costs last week in two separate pieces — one of which was about $59 million, with $19 million for direct hotel costs.
New York City's right-to-shelter laws require the city to provide shelter to anyone who's homeless. It has historically housed homeless people in hotels.
… In another post Monday, Musk said that under the Biden administration, FEMA took money away from disaster relief and “spent it on 5 star hotels for illegals.”
Garcia said the city has never paid luxury rates. The vast majority are outside Manhattan, and the government has paid on average $152 a night for rooms, according to a 2024 city comptroller report. In comparison, 5-star hotels in Manhattan for the coming weekend run from $400 a night to well over $1,000.
The payments of $81 million, Garcia said, covered reimbursements for November 2023 to October 2024, including hotel, security, food, and other costs. She said the city applied in April, the money was appropriated last year by Congress, and FEMA allocated it last year. …”
FEMA says it's halting payments for migrant housing in New York after Musk blasts money for hotels
The acting head of the federal agency responsible for responding to disasters says he’s suspending payments sent to New York City to house migrants and that staff who made them will be held accountable
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One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.
The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and other incidents.
One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.
The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and other incidents.
“When SpaceX’s Starship exploded in January, raining debris over the Caribbean, the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded the rocket program and ordered an investigation.
The move was the latest in a series of actions taken by the agency against the world’s leading commercial space company.
“Safety drives everything we do at the FAA,” the agency’s chief counsel said in September, after proposing $633,000 in fines for alleged violations related to two previous launches. “Failure of a company to comply with the safety requirements will result in consequences.”
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s response was swift and caustic. He accused the agency of engaging in “lawfare” and threatened to sue it for “regulatory overreach.”
“The fundamental problem is that humanity will forever be confined to Earth unless there is radical reform at the FAA!” Musk wrote on X.
Today, Musk is in a unique position to deliver that change. As one of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers and head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, he’s presiding over the administration’s effort to cut costs and slash regulation.
… After the fines in September, SpaceX sent a letter to Congress blasting AST for being too slow to keep up with the booming space industry.
… FAA leadership seems to have heard him. The day of Trump’s inauguration, Whitaker stepped down — a full four years before the end of his term.
And experts said the pressure is almost certain to grow this year as Musk pursues an aggressive launch schedule for Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. …”