...and they're likely right.

But that's not the end of the process.

here's a good explanation:

Michael Popok reports on the Judge finding the Trump DOJ’s comments that they “don’t know if people have been fired” and that “Musk doesn’t have actual or formal authority” to do so, lacking credibility during a rare Holiday hearing.

Like perhaps it would add a longer delay as fighting and appealing the TRO would drag the focus off of the facts of the case itself. Adding more delay on a final ruling. Maybe the Judge is attempting to keep it on the core issues to expedite a permanent injunction.

Just a guess.

With all due respect to the process, what are all of the illegally terminated federal employees and other creditors/contract holders supposed to do when the bills for health insurance premiums, mortgages, child care, etc start rolling in at the end of the month. Tell them to hold their horses? It’s in litigation?

That’s not going to fly. These people will be ruined.

her capable worthy hands.

Right now she's the only one standing between us and major destruction!

A Musk report will come out, and it’ll be designed to make Democrats look bad. They’ll find minor errors in a huge systems and rubes will eat it up.

Wish Biden had done a same when he took office in 2021. It would have uncovered questionable stuff and inefficiency too under trump’s regime.

...and he promised that we'd see it before Valentinne's Day.

If it doesn't include his own already cited for corruption government contracts then it will be an obvious sham.

I don't know why anyone would assume they will come out with anything more credible then the lie Musk told about 150 year-olds getting SS checks, or anything from these inveterate liars.

Moreover, it's CONGRESS who makes the ultimate judgments about spending, not Donald Trump, Not Musk, not the Executive Branch.

country for much needed HIV, Ebola, water, etc. At a minimum, they’ll make it look like it was not used for intended purpose.

They’ll find a few dead people still receiving SS, because their kids hid the body outside. They’ll claim people got disability improperly.

It might be only a few examples, but it will appease trumpsters who voted for this and anyone who might believe government is too inefficient and employees don’t care. Heard it all when I worked for government.

It might all amount to a projection of saving 0.0001% of our budget. Hope we have a damn plan to rebut Musk’s report and the promotional chit show they’ll put on to bash Democrats.

...not the Executive branch, no matter what kind of show they put on.

And, I can guarantee they will be shown to be not only full of shit, but scheming to gain personal advantage from their phony performance.

Congress is going to say “we rely on USAID, SS, and other agencies to administer the appropriations properly. If they are not doing that, maybe we do need some big changes.”

Claiming it’s not in Executive branch purview ain’t gonna work because the administrative agencies are clearly under Executive Branch, that even appoints agency heads.

If Congress passes a law next week and trump signs it saying trump can’t fire people, that might work. But I’m not sure all Dems would support that.

...what we won't have is Trump, making unilateral decisions about spending (or not spending).

And,don't forget that it only takes THREE republicans in the house to help a unanimous Dem minority block things like SS and Medicaid cuts.

And also realize that USAID iswn't just a beneficient enterprise that Congress has supported for decades and decades, since Kennedy.

It's about BUSINESS interests which are not divorced from the republicans in the majority who are essentially employees of the corporations and money men who put them there.

Those are THEIR interests, as well, with at least 47 states directly involved in making the product of their constituents available to USAID - and that's not a donation, it's real dollars that these states will lose, that these politicians will hear about.

Now, USAID spending comprises just 0.3 percent of total federal spending. POINT THREE PERCENT.

In fiscal year 2020, USAID bought $2.1 billion of food aid from American farmers.


TWO POINT ONE BILLION! IN ONE YEAR!

to fire a few percent of employees. Don’t like any of that, but he sold it to voters and won.

...and republicans still haven't gotten their shit together to even pass a budget resolution to move to reconciliation.

All they have to do is get the Senate bill to agree with the House, but the House republicans are rabid and self-immolating.

NPR:

SIMON: What are Republicans trying to resolve?

SPRUNT: Well, they're working on how they want to pass President Trump's agenda. Things he campaigned on like security along the U.S. Southern border, extending the tax cuts passed in his first Trump administration in 2017, and then other things that Trump has asked for, like extending the federal borrowing limit. And what this comes down to, in the end, is a powerful tool called budget reconciliation.

SIMON: Powerful but complicated. Why choose that option?

SPRUNT: Exactly right. Well, the short answer is it's a way for Republicans to pass legislation without Democrats. So Republicans have 53 seats in the Senate, and Democrats aren't going to support much or any of what Trump and Republicans want to do. So it's not like Republicans can rely on seven Democrats to get them over the finish line, which is what they would need a lot of normal, as we would say, legislation. So they turn to reconciliation, which is part of the budget process that makes it possible for Congress to enact legislation on taxes and spending with a simple majority and avoid the threat of a filibuster, which requires that 60 senator number to overcome.

So yes, this is complicated, and it starts with a budget resolution, which directs different committees to change spending or deficits or revenues. Those committees all write bills to achieve their specific target, and then the budget committee puts all those bills together into one big bill that cannot be filibustered. So that's what House...

...that's what House Republicans are working on right now, this blueprint for a budget resolution. But senators have their own different plan. Budget committee chairman Lindsey Graham released the Senate budget resolution on Friday ahead of a meeting last night with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

...each chamber has competing visions of the best path forward to implement this agenda. This has been a disagreement for months now. The Senate wants to do two bills, one for the border and energy, and the other on tax cuts. They're concerned that a tax bill could be too complicated to pass quickly. And instead, they want to move forward with things that they think they can pass relatively soon and then return later this year for that second package.

But top House Republicans want to tackle the agenda with one bill that encompasses everything. They're worried if they delay the tax element, it could be jeopardized altogether.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5288869/house-republicans-want-to-pass-a-budget-bill-that-would-support-trumps-policies

she isn't afraid of Trump/Musk

...who says incredibly ignorant things when he speaks.

I'd put money on that.

It’s a new wrinkle but it tracks.

None.

The system failed and will fail again.

This was a great post in preparation of expected decision by Judge Chutkan!