Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Transparencleness!!

DOGE drops its "receipts":
The 'wall of receipts' is the only public ledger the organization has produced to document its work," the newspaper reported. "The scale of that ledger’s errors — and the misunderstandings and poor quality control that seemed to underlie them — has raised questions about the effort’s broader work, which has led to mass firings and cutbacks across the federal government."

The last of the top five disappeared early Tuesday morning from DOGE's website, and the Times reported that some of the new canceled contracts added this week appear to contain the same types of errors that plagued the original top five, which included a reported $8 billion cut at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, $655 million cut at the U.S. Agency for International Development and $232 million at the Social Security Administration.
ICE's entire budget is $8 billion. DOGE just really doesn’t know what’s going on.
DOGE employees also erroneously counted a single cut three times in an apparent misunderstanding of how government contracts sometimes have "ceiling values" that are much higher than what is actually spent.

Musk's organization also seems to have mistakenly believed that SSA had canceled a massive information technology contract, but it had only ended a $560,000 portion of that project.
And there’s still the question of their authority to do this:
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."
Which led directly to:
NEW: A federal judge gave the Trump administration about 36 hours to pay out hundreds millions of dollars for work performed by foreign aid contractors — and is demanding details about potential defiance of his orders.
Do not pass “Go,” do not collect $200.00. And, in another court:
BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked Donald Trump's executive order pausing the US Refugee Admissions Program saying it appeared to "cross the line" into "nullification of congressional will."
The court order explicitly said the EO was a violation of separation of powers.  Also, too, as well:
JUST IN: A scathing ruling from Judge AliKhan extends her block of the Trump administration's blanket spending freeze. She says the administration has tried to "say one thing while expressly doing another" and called the freeze "ill-conceived." https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276842/gov.uscourts.dcd.276842.51.0.pdf
Three strikes in three courts. The DOJ is getting its ass handed to it today.

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