Appeals Court clears the way for Musk, DOGE to resume cuts to USAID

Fri, March 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM EDT

A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to resume their efforts to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The ruling from a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a lower-court judge’s injunction that had temporarily blockedMusk and DOGE from playing any role in dismantling USAID.

The decision comes just as the Trump administration is making a final push to effectively dissolve the agency tasked with administering foreign aid. Earlier on Friday, the State Department officially notified Congress of its plans to eliminate the agency, according to Democratic lawmakers. And a member of DOGE who is also deputy USAID administrator sent a memo to USAID personnel worldwide,announcing that the overwhelming majority of the agency’s employees will have their jobs cut on either July 1 or Sept. 2.

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, a Maryland-based appointee of President Barack Obama, ruled that Musk and his DOGE allies were likely exercising an unconstitutional amount of power because Musk has not been formally appointed to a Senate-confirmed position. He blocked Musk and DOGE from proceeding with USAID cuts.

All three judges on the 4th Circuit panel agreed that Chuang’s block should be lifted, though they did not all agree on the reasoning.

Judge Marvin Quattlebaum, a Trump appointee on the appeals court, wrote thatMusk’s actions are not unconstitutional because he is a valid presidential adviser, and his efforts to cut USAID were approved by officials with direct authority over the agency.

The administration, Quattlebaum wrote, had presented evidence that “in all pertinent actions, Musk acted as a Senior Advisor to the President and not as the Administrator of DOGE, and that all decisions pertaining to USAID were either made or approved by those so authorized.”

Judge Paul Niemeyer, who was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, joined Quattlebaum’s opinion.

Judge Roger Gregory, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, agreed with the end result — lifting Chuang’s injunction — but disagreed strongly with the rationale……

The challengers can appeal the ruling further, and other lawsuits contesting various USAID cuts remain pending in other courts. Supporters of the agency also promised further litigation over the new cuts announced Friday.

For now, though, the 4th Circuit ruling removes a significant roadblock to one of President Donald Trump’s Day 1 priorities: pausing foreign assistance and shuttering the agency tasked with implementing it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/appeals-court-clears-way-musk-001314678.html

>>22837673

What is it with these Judges assumptions “Musk Likely”, that’s a fucking guess, the law is not based on guesses, but cold hard fact

President Bill Clinton, agreed with the end result — lifting Chuang’s injunction — but disagreed strongly with the rationale.

He wrote thatMusk likelyhas been operating in violation of the Constitution’s appointments clause and that the dismantling of USAIDlikelyviolates the “express will” of Congress.

But read this judge opining on how many will be harmed by cutting these programs, that’s not his job either. This judge should go be a philosopher if this he wants to guess and opine on “what ifs”What we certainly know is the Country is going bankrupt from overspending and that could kill people in America.

=“We may never know how many lives will be lost or cut short by the Defendants’ decision to abruptly cancel billions of dollars in congressionally appropriated foreign aid,” Gregory wrote. “We may never know the lasting effect of Defendants’ actions on our national aspirations and goals. But those are not the questions before the Court today.”

And they never will be before the court

>>22836704 Bill Maher Reveals Some Details About His Upcoming Trip to the White House for Dinner With Trump (VIDEO)PNVideo was posted on the board this week

Bill Maher Reveals Some Details About His Upcoming Trip to the White House for Dinner With Trump(VIDEO)

by Mike LaChance Mar. 28, 2025 9:30 p

Liberal TV host Bill Maher recently revealed that he is going to visit the White House for a dinner where he will meet President Trump. The event was apparently set up by Kid Rock who is a Trump supporter and a friend of Bill Maher.

In a conversation with Chris Cuomo, Maher said that he has no illusions that he is capable of uniting the countrybut thinks his meeting with Trump will have some potentially symbolic meaning.

He emphasizes the idea of being able to talk to people with whom we may disagree.

FOX News reports:

After years of criticizing him and his policies, Maher made headlines when he accepted Trump’s invitation for a private dinner at the White House. The liberal comedian spoke about the meeting in an interview with journalist Chris Cuomo.

Cuomo praised the move, saying he is totally in favor of it, but asked Maher about his motivations for doing it in the first place…

Maher praised the idea of such a meeting nonetheless, arguing, “It’s kind of a Nixon-to-China thing.”

“There was nobody who was harder on Trump or more prescient about the fact that he wasn’t going to leave office voluntarily(WTF?). I have the credentials,” he said. “But they also respect me because I’m honest about the woke train to crazytown, and I don’t shrink from that, and I’ve also lost a lot of fans for that. The woke people have left the building, and I’m willing to make that sacrifice. But it does give you a certain credibility.”

Here’s the video:

During the same episode, Maher suggested that his now deceased parents, who were lifelong Democrats, might be Trump supporters if they were alive today. Watch:

We will be sure to bring you more on Bill Maher’s meeting with Trump when it happens.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/bill-maher-reveals-some-details-about-his-upcoming/

Rep. Tim Burchett Embarrasses Nosy Liberal Following Him with a Hilarious Quip When Leftist Asks a Stupid Question Regarding Signal Leak Incident (VIDEO)

by Cullen Linebarger Mar. 28, 2025 5:20

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) has fast become one of America’s best members of Congress thanks to his near-impeccable voting record and hilarious put-downs of woke liberal anchors during adversarial interviews. He once again went viral on Friday after a liberal tried to ambush him on the streets of D.C. regarding a classic inside-the-beltway story that no ordinary American cares about.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Trump-hating editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, claimed earlier this week he was “accidentally” added to a secure Signal group chat by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz where top Trump administration officials discussed sensitive military operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen and called them “war plans.”

But instead of leaving the conversation, Goldberg took screenshots of the conversation and ran to his keyboard to try to leak the military operation. Team Trump angrily fired back and called Goldberg a liar, saying no war plans were discussed.

Then, Goldberg and his co-worker Shane Harris published details of the military plans against the Houthis to call Team Trump’s bluff and humiliate Trump. But Goldberg ended up accidentally proving them right on Wednesday by now referring to the military operations as “attack plans.”

A youthful leftist, likely either employed by the Democratic National Committee or Media Matters,decided to ambush Burchett while on the streetsof Washington DC Thursday afternoon to ask him a stupid question about the made-up media scandal.

“Congressman, do you trust Trump’s national security team to keep our war plans safe?” the nosy young man asked.

Burchett responded with a savage and hilarious quip, which may cause the woke leftist to cry to his parents.

“Do you trust your mother every night to fix your Hot Pockets and make sure your Game Boy is turned on?”retorted Burchett.

The embarrassed stalker had no answer and let Burchett walk away.

WATCH:

While not many members of Congress possess Burchett’s wit and humor, they should still implement a similar approach when dealing with Democrat activists and liberal corporate media reporters.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/rep-tim-burchett-embarrasses-nosy-liberal-following-him/

From X

Tim Burchett@timburchett

My stalker/tracker almost got me yesterday.

(https://x.com/timburchett/status/1905717134963147182

>>22837745

Burchett is really funny

Bombshell: Prosecutors Question Timing of Pfizer Announcement Released Just After 2020 Election

by Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal Mar. 29, 2025 7:00

Just two days after Democrat Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, drugmaker Pfizer announced its COVID-19 vaccine proved effective in protecting people from the sickness.

Then-President Donald Trump questioned the timing of the announcement, saying, “Pfizer and others even decided to not assess the results of their vaccine, in other words, not come out with the vaccine until just after the election.”

He suggested the delay was payback for Trump’s effort to rein in the cost of medications for elderly patients.

“[It’s] because of what I did with favored nations and these other elements,” he said.

In September 2020, Trump signed an executiveorder benchmarking the price Americans pay through Medicare for prescription drugs to the cost of those same drugs in other markets outside the U.S.

Trump asserted that the original plan called for the COVID vaccine data to be released in October.

Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla, in fact, told NBC’s “Today” at the time that his company would know whether the vaccine worked by the end of October.

https://youtu.be/Yt8SYReQdqw

If positive news regarding a vaccine had come out before the election, “It probably would have had an impact,” Trump asserted.

His administration had pushed hard through Operation Warp Speed to marshal the resources to enable pharmaceutical companies in their work to develop a vaccine.

The Wall Street Journal reportedWednesday that the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan is looking into statements allegedly made by former Pfizer scientist Phil Dormitzer, who led the company’s efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.

Dormitzer left Pfizer in 2021 to work for rival GSK.

In late 2024, he told GSK executives thatPfizer delayed announcing the success of its COVID vaccine trials until after the 2020 presidential election, according to “people familiar with the investigation,” the Journal said.

“The scientist disputes that account of what he told colleagues. But prosecutors are taking a closer look at what GSK shared with them, which is potentially politically explosive,” the outlet reported.

“The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan has interviewed at least two people in connection with the allegation, including a GSK executive who took notes of a conversation with the former Pfizer scientist, according to one of the people familiar with the matter,” the Journal added.

“Prosecutors are planning to interview a third person in coming days, some of the people familiar with the probe said.Pfizer officials haven’t been interviewed.”

In a statement, Dormitzer, 61, told the Journal, “My Pfizer colleagues and I did everything we could to get the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization at the very first possible moment.

“Any other interpretation of my comments about the pace of the vaccine’s development would be incorrect,” the scientist said.

Pfizer also defended the timing of its vaccine announcement, saying it was driven by science and by Food and Drug Administration guidance.

“Pfizer remains ready, willing, and able to explain why any allegation of impropriety is utter nonsense,” the statement said.

The Journal further noted, “The review of the Pfizer vaccine’s effectiveness and safety was performed by an outside panel of independent experts known as a data-safety monitoring committee, which then shared its findings with Pfizer and partner BioNTech. Pfizer filmed and broadcast the moment executives learned the results from Pfizer’s senior scientists, on Nov. 8.”

The DOJ will be looking into all of the competing claims regarding Pfizer’s announcement timing.

Did the company put its hand on the scale of the 2020 election? Time will tell, but it’s shaping up to be yet another instance of Trump being right.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/bombshell-prosecutors-question-timing-pfizer-announcement-released-just/

https://youtu.be/Yt8SYReQdqw

Libs of TikTok

@libsoftiktok

NY State Senator Patricia Fahy (D) has introduced a new bill that aims to effectively ban Tesla dealerships in the state.

“No matter what we do, we’ve got to take this from Elon Musk– He’s part of an effort to go backwards.” -Sen. Patricia Fany

Democrats are so unhinged that they are willing to destroy American companies for their radical agenda

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1905707327124291670

Rep. Cory Mills Introduces Legislation to Block Illegal Aliens from Ever Obtaining U.S. Citizenship

by Cassandra MacDonald Mar. 29, 2025

The No Citizenship for Alien Invaders Act aims to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to “protect American sovereignty by ensuring that illegal immigrants cannot exploit the U.S. immigration system,” according to Rep. Mills.

If passed, the bill would add the line, “No alien who enters the United States unlawfully shall be eligible for naturalization, notwithstanding any other provision of the immigration laws,” to the end of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

“Under the Biden administration, we saw more than 10 million encounters at our borders, a crisis exacerbated by reckless catch-and-release policies that allowed criminals who broke our laws to remain in the United States,” said Congressman Mills in a press release.

Mills continued, “President Trump has made it clear that anyone that tries to unlawfully undermine, exploit, or bypass our immigration system is a criminal. The No Citizenship for Alien Invaders Act will ensure these criminals will never be granted U.S. citizenship, that privilege will be reserved for those who respect our laws.”

The bill’s cosponsors include Reps. Josh Brecheen, Andy Harris, and Anna Paulina Luna.

Rep. Brecheen said of the bill, “America is a nation of laws, and if we allow those laws to be subverted by illegal aliens who have no constitutional right to be here in the first place, then we will cease to be a nation. The No Citizenship for Alien Invaders Act prevents illegal aliens from being rewarded with citizenship after breaking our laws. It’s time we get back to common sense policies that restore law and order to America.”

Illegal aliens can currently pursue citizenship through various pathways, such as marriage to a U.S. citizen, asylum claims, or special programs like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). This bill would eliminate those options.

According to Pew Research, over 22 million illegal aliens are living in the U.S.Bullshit it’s over 60 million, they never count all the years before. Probably 22 million since 2021.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/rep-cory-mills-introduces-legislation-block-illegal-aliens/

This would prevent them from coming in but the gov needs to fix the process of getting citizenship.

Kelly Says SCOTUS Judge Could Be On 'Thinnest Of Possible Ice' Over Trump's Deportation Case OutcomeRoberts has to expedite these things

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The Future of War with AI with Former Navy SEAL | Erik PrinceHillsdale College

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29 Mar, 2025 10:16

Zelensky is a ‘demon’ – Ukrainian MP

Artyom Dmitruk blasted his country’s leader over an attempt to take over the sacred catacombs of the county’s oldest monastery

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is waging a campaign of terror against his own peopleby signing off on a crackdown targeting the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), particularly the iconic Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery, lawmaker Artyom Dmitruk has said.

In an interview with RT on Friday, Dmitruk responded to reports thatUkrainian officials and police have entered the catacombs of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the nation’s most significant monastery and the final resting place of several Christian saints.

During the raid, authoritiesunlocked doors, broke into the caves, and changed locks. Dmitruk describedtheir actions as sacrilegious and suggested that Zelensky was directly complicit.

“Zelensky is perpetrating genocide of the Ukrainian people. What we are seeing now and what we are witnessing now is the continuation of terror policies of Zelensky’s against [the] Ukrainian people.Zelensky is a demon in the body of a human being. You can call him whatever you want, a godless person=, a terrorist, and so on and so forth. The gist of his actions is the same. Zelensky is following a demon’s will,==” he asserted.

According to the legislator, who claims to have fled the country over the persecution of the UOC, thestated goal of the “inventarization” of the monastery’s possessions is nothing more than a pretext.

“They want to inspect the holy relics of our saints. They plan to carve them up, to open them up, to break them into pieces. To perform this sacrilege over them. It's a huge tragedy for the entire Orthodox world,” he said, recalling that the results of the review would be classified.

“They are raiding the Lavra. They are trying to seize the property of the Lavra…If we speak from a legal point of view, it’s a crime,” Dmitruk stressed.

The Ukrainian government has been cracking down on the UOC for months, which it views as having ties to Russia.This effort has included attempts to take over the Lavra, as well as church raids and arrests of clergy. The UOC, the largest religious institution in the country, severed ties with the Moscow Patriarchate following the start of the conflict.

Zelensky has defended the move, insisting on the need to protect Ukraine’s “spiritual independence” from Russia. Moscow has condemned the measures, accusing Kiev of suppressing the canonical Orthodox faith and alleging that the West is encouraging these efforts.

(https://www.rt.com/russia/614921-zelensky-demon-ukraine-lavra-crackdown/

Where are the World Wide Religious Leaders Demanding Ukraine and Zelensky stop this. They have let him do horrendous things to the Churches