NBC News: FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding

[1srelluc]

The wife just told me Mary Coman was her old boss in (FEMA) finance had got fired.....She was not her boss very long before she got kicked upstairs.

Back then they were getting rid of the older experienced heads and replacing them with the college educated.....That's some irony right there.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The judge ruled on existing law didn’t they?

No, the judge did not rule on existing law. I know it is confusing. It is intended to be.

What the judge did was issue a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration to keep them from implementing a temporary freeze on disbursements of grants while they investigate the huge amount of fraud waste and abuse they are finding. The judge cited no law, but rather said it would give them time to hear arguments in which the plaintif would have a chance to present its case that the freeze does violate some as yet unnamed law.

Can Trump ignore the judge’s ruling?

It was not a ruling, it was an order, as explained above.

It's impossible to "ignore" becauase his legal people of course let him know about it and it's been in the news so his agencies know about it. But yes. Donald Trump can simply not follow that order, as he is doing. So could and did Joe Biden when he was president.

He is above the law, right?

Not above the law, but immune from prosecution for official acts, of which freezing spending is certainly one.

The big problem for your side is that there is no valid legal theory under which the courts can order the president to spend money allocated by Congress by a specific deadline, or on specific programs within agencies.

The budget's and CR's provided by congress cover specific periods of time, but there is no law that says the money must be spent within that time.

Do you know of any law that requires Trump to spend money on illegal alien hotel rooms, LGBT Operas in foreign countries, and so forth?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

'A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.

In an email with the subject line “URGENT: Holds on awards,” Stacey Street, the director of the agency’s Office of Grant Administration, told her team to freeze funding for grant programs going back several years, including those focused on emergency preparedness, homeland security, firefighting, protecting churches from terrorism and tribal security.
[…]
NBC News obtained screenshots of the email from a recipient, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal.

"There's a lot of people who are running scared and trying to appease [the new administration]," the recipient said. "This is a violation of the court order."’

FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

www.nbcnews.com

‘FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."’

This is madness – a fascist Trump regime pursuing an insane agenda of disinformation and lies, in violation of the law and Constitution.

Good for them?

 

[Bootstraps]

Trump is so fascist he's trying to make the government smaller. I would ask for someone to explain that one but honesty isn't a known trait of democrats.

 

[odanny]

It's impossible to "ignore" becauase his legal people of course let him know about it and it's been in the news so his agencies know about it. But yes. Donald Trump can simply not follow that order, as he is doing. So could and did Joe Biden when he was president.

Yea, and then there is this:

'A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.

The judge issued his ruling, but what good is it if Trump and his cronies just ignore it? We are going to have multiple instances of the Trump Admin. ignoring what a judge rules, as all tyrants will do.

We've seen this play before, the only thing that changes is the ending.

I do like how you accused Biden of this behavior.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Yea, and then there is this:

'A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.

That senior official was acting at the direction of the President of the United States, in whom ALL executive power is vested.

The judge issued his ruling, but what good is it if Trump and his cronies just ignore it?

It was not good in the first place. What law allows a judge to order a president to spend billions of dollars when the president suspects a large chunk of it goes to fraud, waste, and abuse?

We are going to have multiple instances of the Trump Admin. ignoring what a judge rules, as all tyrants will do.

Yeah. Tyrants who shrink the government and save taxpayers money. The judges are being tyranical by trying to usurp the clear authority of the executive branch.

We've seen this play before, the only thing that changes is the ending.

I do like how you accused Biden of this behavior.

Not an accusation, a statement of fact. I disagree with Biden's attempts to pay off student loans using taxpayer money, but if congress gave him the money to spend, I don't know the theory that he cannot spend it.

 

[odanny]

It was not good in the first place. What law allows a judge to order a president to spend billions of dollars when the president suspects a large chunk of it goes to fraud, waste, and abuse?

He didn't order him to spend anything, he prevented the Emporer from stopping money allocated with a wave of his hand.

You know nothing of fraud, waste and abuse, yet you assume such is rampant, the same as Trump assumes, who likely knows even less than you do. (that's a compliment, by the way)

 

[Seymour Flops]

He didn;'t order him to spend anythingl, you dope, he prevented the Emporer from stopping spending with as wave of his hand.

So, if Trump doesn't spend any of the money, he is in compliance with the judge's order?

You know nothing of fraud, waste and abuse, yet you assume such is rampant, the same as Trump assumes, and likely knows even less that you do. (that's a compliment, you're welcome)

Here are some examples of fraud, waste, and abuse in the State Department alone, provided by factcheck.org, which is known to have a Democrat-leaning bias:

Serbian ‘DEI’ Project​

An LGBTQ advocacy organization in Serbia — a country that fares poorly

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compared with other European countries on measures of LGBTQ rights, according to data from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights — hosted a three-year program aimed at improving the inclusion of LGBTQ people in the workplace.


From February 2023 to October 2024, USAID committed to spending about $1.5 million — in three roughly $500,000 installments — to support the program.

A ‘DEI Musical’ in Ireland

The State Department committed to provide $70,844 in September 2022 to an Irish organization called Ceiliuradh, which is part
of the Irish South Wind Blows production company. The money wasn’t for a “musical,” but rather a musical event.


That company’s musical component, called Other Voices, put together a program called “Other Voices: Dignity – Towards a More Equitable Future” for the U.S. Embassy in Dublin on Sept. 15, 2022.

A ‘Transgender Opera’ in Colombia

On April 28, 2022, the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, put on a performance of the opera “As One.” The show, which was written in the U.S. and debuted in 2014, features a transgender protagonist.

A program for the university’s production of the opera the show had the support of the university, the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra and the “Small Grants Program of the Embassy of the United States in Colombia.”


The Department of State committed $25,000 to fund the project, and the website USAspending.gov also noted that there was $22,020 of “non-federal funding” for the project, making a total of $47,020 listed on the site. The federal funding for this project also came from the State Department, not USAID.

A ‘Transgender Comic Book’ in Peru​

In 2021, the U.S. Embassy in Peru introduced a comic book called “The Power of Education,” which it used to promote education and exchange programs in the U.S.

The following year, the embassy commissioned a second volume.

“The Embassy asked us to introduce a gay student in #2 to show his personal struggle coming out to his parents, but that has zero to do with being transgender,” David Campiti, who owns the company that produced the comic book, told us in an email. “The comics were about scholarships and furthering education.”

The series ended up including three comic books, each one showing an aspect of cultural exchange and education. View them here, here and here.


The writer of the comic, David Lawrence, said the same thing in a post on his Facebook page on Feb. 4, explaining why the embassy had requested an LGBTQ character. “The US embassy in Peru requested that as a small response to anti gay prejudice in the country,” he wrote.

We reached out to the embassy for comment and were referred to the State Department, which did not respond to us.

The funding for this project didn’t come from USAID, either, but, again, from the State Department.

Sorting Out the Facts on 'Waste and Abuse' at USAID - FactCheck.org

As President Donald Trump's administration targets the U.S. Agency for International Development for closure or major downsizing, the White House and social media posts have highlighted four projects as examples of the agency's "waste and abuse." But only one was funded by USAID.

www.factcheck.org

FWA by FEMA:

Musk, who as head of the Department of Government Efficiency has consolidated control over much of the federal government and is working to cut costs and shrink the workforce, posted on X that his team “just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.” He said the money is intended for disaster relief and would be clawed back.

You can pretend that it doesn't happen because the government and the Democrats are such stalwart guardians of the taxpayers' hard-earned money, but Trump can see the waste, fraud and abuse for himself, and he's pausing spending until it can be reduced or eliminated.

If we were getting the same news and it was a Democrat president doing it, you would be cheering her for doing it.

 

[odanny]

There is waste an inefficiency in every government program. There always has been, there always will be.

President Musk does not like USAID, and the Emporer wants to keep his BFF happy, so he waves his hand and makes his decree. The entire organization must be eliminated.

You and yours bow in unison.

 

[Seymour Flops]

There is waste an inefficiency in every government program. There always has been, there always will be.

President Musk does not like USAID, and the Emporer wants to keep his BFF happy, so he waves his hand and makes his decree. The entire organization must be eliminated.

You and yours bow in unison.

You were at least trying to make logical arguments, but you seem to have run out of them.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

'A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.

In an email with the subject line “URGENT: Holds on awards,” Stacey Street, the director of the agency’s Office of Grant Administration, told her team to freeze funding for grant programs going back several years, including those focused on emergency preparedness, homeland security, firefighting, protecting churches from terrorism and tribal security.
[…]
NBC News obtained screenshots of the email from a recipient, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal.

"There's a lot of people who are running scared and trying to appease [the new administration]," the recipient said. "This is a violation of the court order."’

FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

www.nbcnews.com

‘FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."’

This is madness – a fascist Trump regime pursuing an insane agenda of disinformation and lies, in violation of the law and Constitution.

A lot of people doing Trump's bidding are going to get prosecuted.While the fat rapist laughs and golfs.

While our corrupt SCOTUS may have granted immunity to the sitting president, it granted no such immunity to the criminals committing crimes at his direction.

Will they ever learn?

 

[kyzr]

Yea, and then there is this:
'A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.
The judge issued his ruling, but what good is it if Trump and his cronies just ignore it? We are going to have multiple instances of the Trump Admin. ignoring what a judge rules, as all tyrants will do. We've seen this play before, the only thing that changes is the ending.
I do like how you accused Biden of this behavior.

The appeals court just reversed the "no pause" order. So the Trump pause is now in effect.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The appeals court just reversed the "no pause" order. So the Trump pause is now in effect.

Interesting.

So now every Democrat who has been complaining about Trump not following the previous order, must now fully support the freeze because

IT IS THE LAW!

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The judge cited no law,

He of course did, specifically, the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 . You of course never read the ruling, and you are talking out of your ass.

 

[odanny]

A lot of people doing Trump's bidding are going to get prosecuted.While the fat rapist laughs and golfs.

While our corrupt SCOTUS may have granted immunity to the sitting president, it granted no such immunity to the criminals committing crimes at his direction.

Will they ever learn?

Unlikely in Trump's lifetime, that was the purpose of the purge.

 

[justoffal]

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

'A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.

In an email with the subject line “URGENT: Holds on awards,” Stacey Street, the director of the agency’s Office of Grant Administration, told her team to freeze funding for grant programs going back several years, including those focused on emergency preparedness, homeland security, firefighting, protecting churches from terrorism and tribal security.
[…]
NBC News obtained screenshots of the email from a recipient, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal.

"There's a lot of people who are running scared and trying to appease [the new administration]," the recipient said. "This is a violation of the court order."’

FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

www.nbcnews.com

‘FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."’

This is madness – a fascist Trump regime pursuing an insane agenda of disinformation and lies, in violation of the law and Constitution.

Ohhhh.....tough shit ya know?

 

[Frankenstein]

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

'A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.

In an email with the subject line “URGENT: Holds on awards,” Stacey Street, the director of the agency’s Office of Grant Administration, told her team to freeze funding for grant programs going back several years, including those focused on emergency preparedness, homeland security, firefighting, protecting churches from terrorism and tribal security.
[…]
NBC News obtained screenshots of the email from a recipient, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal.

"There's a lot of people who are running scared and trying to appease [the new administration]," the recipient said. "This is a violation of the court order."’

FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

www.nbcnews.com

‘FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."’

This is madness – a fascist Trump regime pursuing an insane agenda of disinformation and lies, in violation of the law and Constitution.

Good, these demofascist Judges are trying to act like they are the elected officials, they are not and are liberal hack judges that should be ignored.

 

[Scoutster]

The judge ruled on existing law didn’t they? Can Trump ignore the judge’s ruling?

He is above the law, right?

Trump is the law!

 

[justoffal]

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

'A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.

In an email with the subject line “URGENT: Holds on awards,” Stacey Street, the director of the agency’s Office of Grant Administration, told her team to freeze funding for grant programs going back several years, including those focused on emergency preparedness, homeland security, firefighting, protecting churches from terrorism and tribal security.
[…]
NBC News obtained screenshots of the email from a recipient, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal.

"There's a lot of people who are running scared and trying to appease [the new administration]," the recipient said. "This is a violation of the court order."’

FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

www.nbcnews.com

‘FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."’

This is madness – a fascist Trump regime pursuing an insane agenda of disinformation and lies, in violation of the law and Constitution.

FEMA is useless

 

[Seymour Flops]

NBC News obtained screenshots of the email from a recipient, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal.

so much easier to invent news than to report it.