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D.C. Circuit Court: Trump Always Had The Authority To Slash USAID's Tax Dollar Waste

2025-08-14

[Federalist] President Donald Trump had the presidential and legal authority to terminate billions of taxpayer dollars to the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) and its countless overseas pet projects, the Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed this week.

About time someone figured that out over there. It’ll still go to the US Supreme Court, I suspect.

Ever since Trump issued his day-one executive order effectively freezing USAID’s wasting of Americans’ hard-earned dollars, judges have encroached on his presidential authority by hampering his power to impound, or "decline to spend the full amount of an appropriated fund."

In its 2-1 ruling published on Wednesday, the D.C. Circuit Court not only reversed those attempts, but also paved the way to limit the number of lawsuits and subsequent injunctions designed to keep Trump from doing his job by curbing American subsidization of covert programs like Iraqi "Sesame Street," LGBT initiatives abroad, and even meals for terrorists.

Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, joined by Judge Gregory Katsas, noted that a band of USAID beneficiaries sued to stop the cessation of their federal funding and keep their secret slush funds. Yet she concluded the district court "erred in granting that relief because the grantees lack a cause of action to press their claims."

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