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Anonymous ID: cbdea7 Feb. 25, 2025, 1:12 p.m. No.22654956   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4986 >>5212 >>5396

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-biden-judge-dresses-down-doj-lawyers-usaid/

 

BREAKING: Biden Judge Dresses Down DOJ Lawyers Over USAID Disbursement, Orders Trump Admin to Pay Foreign Aid Contracts

A Biden-appointed judge on Tuesday blasted DOJ lawyers over USAID disbursement and ordered the Trump Administration to pay the foreign contracts by 11:59 pm on Wednesday evening.

 

Earlier this month, US District Judge for the District Court of Columbia, Amir Ali, a Biden appointee, temporarily blocked President Trump from cancelling foreign aid contracts.

 

Judge Ali ordered the Trump Admin to restore funding for the foreign aid contractors after Trump froze US foreign aid for 90 days last month.

 

Last month, after Trump’s executive order to halt foreign aid grants, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued new guidance to temporarily pause spending on most foreign aid for 3 months.

 

Marco Rubio said the State Department will issue waivers on a case-by-case basis.

 

Non-profit groups sued to have their funds restored.

 

A couple of weeks ago Judge Amir Ali, said Trump’s order halting foreign funding has caused enormous harm.

 

“At least to date, Defendants have not offered any explanation for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated foreign aid, which set off a shockwave and upended reliance interests for thousands of agreements with businesses, nonprofits, and organizations around the country, was a rational precursor to reviewing programs,” Judge Ali wrote in a 15-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.

 

On Tuesday, Judge Ali dressed down DOJ lawyers over the disbursement of funds.

 

“I don’t know why I can’t get a straight answer from you. Are you aware of an unfreezing of the disbursement of funds for those contracts and agreements that were frozen before Feb. 13?” Judge Ali said to the DOJ lawyers according to a telephone hearing attended by Politico reporter Kyle Cheney.

 

 

Judge: "I don’t know why I can’t get a straight answer from you. Are you aware of an unfreezing of the disbursement of funds for those contracts and agreements that were frozen before Feb. 13?"

 

DOJ lawyer: "I’m not in a position to answer that."

 

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 25, 2025

 

Reuters reported:

 

A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to pay foreign aid funds to contractors and grant recipients by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday night, saying there was no sign that it had taken any steps to comply with his earlier order that the funds be unfrozen.

 

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali’s order came in a telephone hearing in a lawsuit brought by organizations that contract with and receive aid from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department. It applies to work done before February 13, when the judge issued his earlier temporary restraining order.

 

It was the third time Ali had ordered the administration officials to release foreign aid funds that were frozen after President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause on all foreign aid, throwing global humanitarian relief efforts into chaos.

Anonymous ID: cbdea7 Feb. 25, 2025, 1:14 p.m. No.22654971   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4991 >>5020 >>5212 >>5396

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-karoline-leavitt-strips-white-house-correspondents-association/

 

BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt Strips White House Correspondents’ Association of Its “Monopoly” Over White House Press Access, Announces New Plans to Expand Press Pool to New Media (VIDEO)

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced today that the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) will no longer hold its iron grip over deciding which outlets get a seat in the coveted White House press pool.

 

“This administration is shaking up Washington in more ways than one,” Leavitt said, noting, “that’s what we were elected to do.”

 

“A select group of DC-based journalists should no longer have a monopoly over the privilege of press access at the White House,” she added in reference to the White House Correspondents’ Association.

 

She said the WHCA “has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States in these most intimate spaces,” but “not anymore.”

 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Associated Press asked a federal judge to grant an emergency Temporary Restraining Order against the Trump Administration and restore its access to areas in the White House after the far-left outlet was booted from the Oval Office this month over its refusal to acknowledge President Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”

 

Even Google and Apple have acknowledged the name change, but the leftist outlet didn’t want to recognize the Gulf’s new legal name.

 

On Monday, a federal judge denied the Associated Press’s emergency motion to restore its access to the White House press pool.

 

Leavitt responded to this news Monday, stating, “Covering the American presidency in the most intimate and limited spaces in this White House, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One is a privilege.” Leavitt continued, “It is not a legal right.”

 

The Gateway Pundit recently reported that before the AP filed its lawsuit, the WHCA’s President attacked the White House in a statement, claiming that “the White House is seeking to curtail the press freedoms enshrined in our Constitution.”

 

We noted how the leftist WHCA, led by Eugene Daniels, a liberal reporter for Politico, is ironically crying foul over the AP losing its privilege to access the Oval Office, an area that many other reporters, including this author, have been unable to access due to a lack of space and restrictions placed by the WHCA.