There Is Simply No Plausible Case For NOT IMMEDIATELY "Turning Back On" The DRAWN Letters Of Credit -- Via USAID Politicos. They Now Defy Multiple FINAL Court Orders.

To be sure, we saw this same cha-cha -- from Marco Rubio after the ACA of 2010 became the law of the land. He and Cruz did all they could to thwart federal court orders to grant coverage to people of limited means. But that experience (he lost, all up and down the line) makes this all the worse. He well-knows there is no plausible basis, for what he does now.

The able USDC Judge Amir Ali, in DC has told the parties to get sworn information to him no later than Monday, so that he might rule on a firm factual footing, out of yesterday's hearing.

It appears that Rubio and Musk and Trump and the minions of each. . . are now engaged in bad-faith foot dragging. There were about $250 million in already processed and approved letters of credit available to charitable grantees, as of the moment the TRO was entered (now almost three weeks ago). To date, only about $70 million of those L/Cs have been "reinstated" -- or turned back on, if you will.

There is zero excuse for this. And Judge Ali may need to soon start -- with contempt orders/jailings -- for these malign morons' thwarting of federal orders. Here's the latest, for Monday morning -- and a bit from a full text order entered late Friday afternoon:

. . .[Further Status Report:] As to invoices, the six GHC individual Plaintiffs have advised counsel that, collectively, since March 5, they have received payments on a total of 44 invoices in an aggregate amount of approximately $21.6 million. Furthermore, one GHC individual Plaintiff (DAI Global, LLC) has advised counsel that, shortly before this filing, it was notified of approximately 60 additional payments that it expects to receive on Monday. The GHC Plaintiffs respectfully submit that access to letter-of-credit facilities should be restored immediately. . . .

[Separate] MINUTE ORDER.

. . .As discussed at yesterday's hearing, the Court believes it would be helpful to have additional information to serve as benchmarks in assessing feasibility in reaching compliance with the TRO. These benchmarks will allow the Court to continue to provide clarity as to what is needed for compliance with the TRO, while ensuring that due regard is given to feasibility. As the parties discussed, such benchmarks would also be pertinent to the Court's consideration of any relief to be granted in a preliminary injunction.

The Court is in receipt of Defendants' [Team Tangerine 2.0's] notice stating that they are not currently able to provide information regarding the number of payments processed for Plaintiffs as it relates to Defendants' paragraph 10 in the parties' [50] joint status report, and may need until noon on Monday to provide this information. If Plaintiffs can offer any information or estimate as to how many outstanding invoices were processed in the period described, they should provide that information to the Court as soon as possible.

Furthermore, in the interest of facilitating the Court's ruling with respect to enabling letter of credit drawdown and reimbursement requests for Plaintiffs and their members, the parties shall confer and file a brief joint status report by 5:00 p.m. today addressing whether such requests have been enabled and, if not, the agreed upon timeline for doing so.

Signed by Judge Amir H. Ali on 3/7/2025. . . .

Now you may plainly see. . . these guys think they are not required to obey laws they disagree with. Tangerine is soon going to see. . . this idiotic "strategy". . . leads only to potential jailings -- and massive personal fines -- for his minions.

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