Summary

The Trump administration has canceled 90% of USAIDā€™s foreign aid contracts, including critical programs that provide lifesaving therapeutic food to malnourished children.

Mana Nutritionā€™s CEO reports that ready-to-ship boxes of peanut paste that could save approximately 300,000 children are now stranded in a Georgia warehouse.

Despite Secretary of State Rubioā€™s claims that ā€œlifesaving humanitarian assistanceā€ would be spared, numerous essential health programs have been terminated, including those preventing diseases like polio, HIV, and Ebola.

These cuts contradict claims about targeting ā€œwokenessā€ or ā€œwaste,ā€ instead showing a reckless abandonment of Americaā€™s global humanitarian commitments.

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    Yep, theyā€™ll get the government sued and lose so much more money through litigation and actually losing the law suits.

    But of course, they donā€™t care, for all their talk about deficits and taxes they know itā€™s not their money in the end.

    Unless some genius lawyer manages to somehow make Musk personally liable, of course, because none of this Doge stuff looks set up properly, so if the US ever does get back to some sort of rule of law, people will get in trouble for breaking all sorts of laws.

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      Trumpā€™s admin has already shown that you canā€™t really sue the federal government into compliance if there isnā€™t anyone to enforce it. Sure, those countries and companies and people can sue the US for breach of contract. The government will laugh in their face and not pay, simple as that. Trump literally made his millions doing exactly this.

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        Itā€™s shocking to me that people have this notion of the judicial branch being magical wizards that can issue a sacred ruling that teleports bad guys to prison. Thatā€™s not even in their job description.

        They interpret the law and the executive enforces it. If the executive doesnā€™t care to enforce their rulings then they might as well be running legal theory channels on YouTube