{"id":31973,"date":"2025-02-09T00:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T00:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=31973"},"modified":"2025-02-08T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T00:28:47","slug":"paul-engelmayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/paul-engelmayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Engelmayer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Secretary of the Treasury functions as the CFO of the U.S. government. <\/p>\n

If the CFO is denied access to spending information, how can he do his job?<\/p>\n

The people elected Donald Trump, who appointed Scott Bessent to run the Treasury \u2014 not bureaucrats.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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New York Judge Paul Engelmayer just forbade all political appointees \u2014 including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent \u2014 from accessing Dept. of Treasury data, all based on Blueanon conspiracy theories!!<\/div>\n
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Those theories couldn’t be challenged because the order was EX PARTE \u2014 meaning Trump’s lawyers weren’t warned, and couldn’t weigh in. Only Democrat Attorneys General were allowed to argue. <\/div>\n
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The judge cites no law or logic to support this unprecedented order, because it defies both. The judge\u2019s ruling is, in essence, that Scott Bessent simply occupies a ceremonial position without real power, like the King of England.<\/div>\n
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This is a grenade thrown into the functioning of the Treasury Department. <\/div>\n
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It forbids the elected government from accessing information about budget and finances. Instead, only the permanent, deep-state government can know what’s being spent.<\/div>\n
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It means Scott Bessent’s subordinates have far more power than Scott Bessent does.<\/div>\n
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Democrat pundits who whine about the Constitution are liars, and will shred it the first chance they get. <\/div>\n
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For now, the order is only for the next week, but if a court tries to make it permanent the Trump Administration should absolutely consider defying it. <\/div>\n
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Better yet, SCOTUS should bar this judge from ever hearing similar cases again, and every Democrat lawyer involved should be sanctioned.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    ALX 🇺🇸 \u2066\u202a@alx\u202c\u2069 Secretary of the Treasury functions as the CFO of the U.S. government.  If the CFO is denied access to spending information, how can he do his job? The people elected Donald Trump, who appointed Scott Bessent to run the Treasury \u2014 not bureaucrats.   2\/8\/25, 1:51\u202fPM     New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}