The Judicial Branch, apparently unconcerned about that whole separation-of-powers thing, is telling the Executive Branch what to do.
In particular, it’s saying that the Trump Administration has to distribute $2 billion in foreign aid, even though it contains substantial amounts of wasteful, fraudulent, and harmful spending.
Ideally, President Trump would take a page from Andrew Jackson’s playbook and leave it to the court that has made the ruling to try to enforce it.
But he doesn’t seem ready to do that. The next best thing might be for Washington to send the aid in pennies. Two billion dollars is two hundred billion pennies. Here’s what that would look like:
It might take some time to collect them, or mint them if it comes to that. But the judiciary hasn’t set any kind of timetable for the distribution.
Oh, and they should be sent COD, of course. (A million dollars in pennies has a weight of roughly 300 tons.) Or, if shipping costs are too expensive, the money can just be left in a warehouse, to be retrieved in person by the recipients.
Perhaps you’ve heard the Democrats talking about how they’ll use ‘malicious compliance’ to stand in the way of the changes that Trump is trying to make. This is the same thing, but Trump-sized.
Ruth Ward et Rick Ladd removenda sunt
