Judge Blocks Trump's AID Freeze
Another federal judge throws a wrench in the DOGE machine. Why do they make it IMPOSSIBLE to save us money?!
I'm Tomi Lahren, more next.
So here we go again with the activist judges rushing in to keep government big and keep the aid dollars flowing to nonprofit and NGOs- or maybe more accurately to the people who work for the nonprofits and NGOs.
The judge, Loren Alikhan from the US District Court for DC ruled that the pause of all federal grants, loans and assistance programs saying the nonprofits showed enough evidence to suggest 'even the threat of a funding freeze was enough to send countless organizations into complete disarray.'
Yeah, that was kind of the point.
But this is precisely why nothing ever gets done. Politicians on both sides are to blame. They all go to DC saying they are gonna cut waste and fat and downsize government and then they get there and grow it, instead.
Democrats do it because they are globalists who love sending your money to Timbuktu for drag shows but Republicans in Congress do it too! For what reason, I'm not entirely sure.
It shouldn't be this hard to save our hard-earned tax dollars, but alas the SWAMP is gonna SWAMP!
I'm Tomi Lahren and you watch my show 'Tomi Lahren is Fearless' at Outkick.com
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