This declaration from Clara “Doe,” supporting the TRO against the freeze on USAID foreign aid (now before SCOTUS), is worth reading. It’s from a USAID contracting officer with more than 10 years experience there. ... 1/6 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... - ThreadSky

rparloff.bsky.social • 4 days ago

This declaration from Clara “Doe,” supporting the TRO against the freeze on USAID foreign aid (now before SCOTUS), is worth reading. It’s from a USAID contracting officer with more than 10 years experience there. ...
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.42.4_1.pdf

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midwesternmama.bsky.social•4 days ago

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rparloff.bsky.social•4 days ago

On 2/13, when Judge Amar Ali issued the TRO lifting the freeze, the COs, including those administering life-saving PEPFAR HIV services grants, awaited guidance for resuming payments for approved costs already incurred—some as far back as November. They received nothing for four days ...
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rparloff.bsky.social•4 days ago

... Then, on 2/17 the senior procurement officer sent a “vague” email that ostensibly told them to stop implementing the pre-TRO freeze, but gave no guidance on how. It said the “Front Office” would soon be adding a new process to prevent fraud. ...
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rparloff.bsky.social•4 days ago

... Clara explains that all awards *already* undergo multiple layers of review to ensure integrity. In more than 10 years at USAID, she knows of no widescale fraud issues. She still hasn’t been told who will perform the new oversight role or how. ...
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rparloff.bsky.social•4 days ago

... Clara says that payments “could easily be completed” if mission controllers were “given access back” to the computer system they’ve been locked out of, but on 2/24 “all my mission controllers were put on administrative leave.” ...
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rparloff.bsky.social•4 days ago

... She concludes that agency actions to date have been taken “in bad faith” and with intent to try to “bankrupt” USAID contractors & grantees “through a refusal to pay allowable costs ... contrary to federal regs & basic contract law.”
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bruffles.bsky.social•4 days ago

Very eager to hear the “you agreed to pay your student loans” crowd decry this refusal to pay contractually agreed amounts.

eurotrader.bsky.social•4 days ago

And Roberts has said laws don't apply to king Donnie. SCOTUS is openly corrupt

vero1986.bsky.social•4 days ago

"Maybe before coming after USAID, Republican should look at the billions and billions of dollars of tax breaks and subsidies they give to oligarchs like Elon Musk. You want to save some money? Let's start there."

bigtmoney.bsky.social•4 days ago

lol Trump’s whole life is “contrary to federal regs & basic contract law”.

dianecheyanne.bsky.social•4 days ago

@skyview.social Please unroll

sethhath.bsky.social•4 days ago

The is a prelude to Trump defaulting on the national debt. Will his billionaire friends short T-bills?

peanut24.bsky.social•4 days ago

The sheer malevolence and bad faith is kind of staggering. Not to mention the clear defiance of the original court order, which (unlike another TRO) they never even tried to appeal.

gwpda.bsky.social•4 days ago

Holy cr*p. Federal Contracting Officers! BTW, these are the people who oversee musk's Federal Contracts - and their agencies are the agencies targetted for shutdown. That's GS-1102 for anyone interested.

hoobajoob.bsky.social•4 days ago

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theunshaved.bsky.social•4 days ago

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justanotherdem.bsky.social•4 days ago

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modemjunkie.bsky.social•4 days ago

@skyview.social unroll

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