14 August 2025

D.C. Appeals Court Rules That Courts Don't Control the Budget

The fact that judges think they are in charge of anything outside of their courtroom is amazing. But here we are. D.C. Appeals Court Allows Trump Admin Doesn’t Have to Pay Back USAID Funds

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit with a 2-1 vote reversed a lower court’s ruling that forced President Donald Trump’s administration to pay $2 billion in USAID funding.

This is a ruling made on what most people think of being a technicality. But at least the appeals court has recognized that people are not entitled to their government grants.

And if you think that USAID was just a slush-fund for Democratic operations, and that the judge in question was just trying to prop up those operations, well you are just cynical, and should chill out. Or something.

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