@lain

It also often depends on how you define the default. Defaulting on THE debt and defaulting on a bill they argue they don't really owe are two different things. I suspect DOGE shut down these payments on the claim that these were not properly authorized, but a Democrat-aligned judge is arguing it's a contract and valid enough to be paid before a proper judgement is made (without regard to the correctness of the authorization, which may or may not be real).

The biggest issue with the thing the judges are doing is that they're making injunctions requiring a potentially improper and almost definitely unrecoverable payout. I consider that beyond the purview of these judges' authority. SCOTUS chose not to intervene, which is not a ruling but more a "declined to intervene" situation. I hate the Judicial Branch but I hate watching armchair lawyers treat everything as if it's right because a judge said it even more. We should all be critical of all parts of the government at all times.

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