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Despite the DOGE uncovering hundreds of millions of dollars squandered by the United States Agency for International Development on causes that are ridiculous, radically left, or downright anti-American, the Supreme Court has ruled to undo President Trump's executive order, which froze $2 billion in USAID funding, by ruling to uphold the lower court's original order.
“Please, Donald Trump, make sure you're finding a Scalia as our next Supreme Court justice if you get to appoint one,” pleads Glenn Beck, calling the court's ruling “grotesque.”
“The question is: Who really holds the reins of our government?” he asks.
“In this case, President Trump on his first day back in office signed an executive order to freeze $2 billion in USAID funding … because he [suspected] deep corruption,” Glenn explains.
He specifically instructed his team, according to campaign promises, to “look for waste, fraud, and abuse."
Following this order, “nonprofit groups sued, and a lower-court judge ordered the funds to be unblocked, and in the Supreme Court yesterday, 5-4 split, they upheld that order” with a ruling that said, in essence, “you can't just hit pause on Congress.”
Glenn, however, agrees with Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Thomas that Donald Trump, as the chief administrator, has “the leeway to manage the funds and root out corruption, especially since the executive branch is tasked with ‘faithfully executing the laws.”’
Glenn wishes Scalia were alive to remind the court, as he did in the 1988 case Morrison v. Olson, that “letting courts micromanage executive discretion enfeebles the president's constitutional role."
Glenn then provides a helpful metaphor to explain what’s going on: Imagine a mom and a dad (Congress) determine to spend $500 on a summer camp for their children, but they’re in a busy season of life so they hand the money to a brother (president) to pay the camp director. The parents then find out that the brother has not paid the camp director because he’s discovered that the camp is corrupt and promotes everything the parents stand against.
If you’re the parent in this situation, “are you going, ‘thank God,’ or do you say, ‘you have no right to do that; I want my money going to that corrupt camp’?” Glenn asks, noting that the answer is obvious.
“That’s this case in a nutshell,” except it’s not “a family of three or four or five; it's a family of 330 million people, and the cash is yours!” he says.
But Congress has continued to basically say, “Here's a big pile of money and we want generally this thing to happen,” says Stu. “They can just write in the laws that they pass exactly where the money needs to go and when it needs to go there.”
How did we get to this point? According to Glenn, it started in 1946 when progressives passed the Administrative Procedure Act.
To hear Glenn’s analysis on this act that essentially created “a fourth branch of government,” watch the clip above.
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Does Trump have the political capital to tell SCOTUS no on USAID ruling?
On Wednesday, March 5, SCOTUS in a 5-4 vote ruled to reject the Trump administration's request to block a lower court order requiring nearly $2 billion in USAID funds to be unfrozen. Conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the Democrat wing of the Supreme Court, tipping the scale against President Trump.
Steve Deace wasn’t surprised by Barrett’s vote.
“She's been a colossal disappointment from her very first year on the Supreme Court when she voted almost 70% of the time with the left-wing side of the court,” he says.
However, it was Justice John Roberts who angered him the most.
“John Roberts just spanked a lower court last week ... for thinking it had the jurisdiction to do something it doesn't have the jurisdiction to do,” Deace says. “He wrote a scathing rebuke of this. ... How in the Sam Hill does John Roberts issue that opinion last week and then side with this one?”
Regardless of how disappointing the SCOTUS ruling was, Deace always knew that the MAGA agenda could only enjoy smooth sailing for so long.
At the beginning of Trump’s term, he predicted that we would “eventually get to a point, March or April, where the president has kind of exhausted how many shots at the Death Star he can take.”
This ruling indicates that that has happened.
“It's ship-to-ship combat now. We're kind of getting into that stage of this fight now, and the empire is going to strike back,” he says.
Deace thinks that President Trump has the political capital to win this fight.
Lower court judges, like U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, who issued the original order demanding USAID funds be unfrozen, were “taught day one of law school that a court determines its own jurisdiction,” says Deace. “There's no jurisdiction here — none.”
If we continue “letting a bunch of unelected people claim power and jurisdiction they don't have,” the MAGA mandate will continue to be stifled.
“Now it’s time to DOGE the courts,” he says. “This is the time to say, ‘Stick it where the sun don't shine, we're not doing it,’ and teach civics to the American people like you're teaching budget to them right now through DOGE.”
To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.
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