Now The Weekly Status Reports Begin -- To Stop Musk/Trump Foot-Draggin' -- On USAID Payment Streams, During The Litigation...

As previously ordered here, the reports on restarted payments are now appearing in the DC courtroom of the able USDC Judge Amir Ali.

Here's the latest -- but I expect this will be "not enough" for Judge Ali. We shall see:

. . .As of yesterday, the total number of such payments by Defendants to Plaintiffs processed since March 18, 2025 was 161, and the total number of such payments by Defendants to non-Plaintiffs processed since March 18, 2025 was 5,690. In sum, [Trumpian] Defendants have therefore processed 5,851 payments between March 18 and March 26, which amounts to approximately 975 payments per business day. . . .

Defendants’ intention has been to prioritize payments to Plaintiffs. The remaining payments to Plaintiffs have presented particular challenges [Editor's note: this is likely BS] precluding faster processing: More time has been necessary to process the remaining payments to Plaintiffs than Defendants estimated in the March 19, 2025 status report because agency personnel are working with funding recipients to address transaction-specific details (such as duplicate invoice submissions, billing errors, and the need to confirm that goods or services were delivered or rendered).

Accordingly, Defendants’ proposed timeline for processing the remaining payments is as follows: Defendants expect to process the remaining payments to Plaintiffs by April 10, 2025, and the remaining payments by the last week of April 2025. . . .

The last two paragraphs above are at best. . . gilding the lily. Hopefully Judge Amir will order that the remaining overdue amounts are cleared before April 15, and all ongoing payment streams are back to normal before April 20. We shall see.

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