jerrymahoney

... or else they just have to find a new 'clean' mule.

Absolutely. The lawsuit over constitutional or legislative provisions is just what the aggrieved party says it is. And the administration will likely respond that it isn't.

Wow. Devastating.

And you can go back to criticising 4yos. Chickens are just like anybody else -- except they're chickens

Well now that Trump has fixed the border, he can go to work arresting the chickens for raising the price of eggs.

18JAN 2025 Unauthorized apprehensions at the U.S. southern border have decreased significantly in the past six months — by more than 70% compared with the same period in 2023, according to Customs and Border Protection. The U.S. government attributes the dip to an executive order issued last summer by President Biden that severely restricts asylum requests from migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border with no authorization. Another factor is the implementation of the CBP One app, and experts say the Mexican national guard cracking down on migrants heading north is playing a key role, as well. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5258476/trump-border-crossings-immigration-u-s-mexico

With apologies to Peter Pan (1960): “Donald Trump is the sun and the moon and the stars”

As per JD Vance 02 OCT 2024: I am focused on the future.

I don't see how anyone who has 573 posts since Joining AN February 6 can accuse anyone else of non-stop anything.

‘I have nothing to do with Project 2025,’ Trump said (10 SEP 2024) 37 ways Project 2025 has shown up in Trump’s executive orders President Donald Trump on the campaign trail last summer disavowed Project 2025, saying he knew nothing about the effort. But many of the conservative blueprint’s ideas have made their way into his early executive orders, signaling the sweeping impact the Heritage Foundation document has already had on the Trump administration’s policy making. https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/trump-executive-orders-project-2025/

I was at a US Embassy meet-and-greet the Ambassador last August. The Amb. said that his staff was fully engaged with the TRD on the remittance tax issue. He also said he has met with Thai officials who want to know how they can better attract the well-heeled US citizens. I mumbled while sitting close enough to the Amb. for him to hear: Taxes?

From the link above: White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt has stated that Musk is “complying with all applicable Federal laws.” -- or as Scarlett O'Hara (1939) would have put it: Oh Fiddle-dee-dee

States File Suit Claiming DOGE Authority Grant Unconstitutional Feb 14, 2025 A coalition of over a dozen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Federal court on Feb. 13 against President Trump, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and its leader Elon Musk, accusing them of “unlawful exercise of power” in taking recent actions to invade Federal agencies, access their tech systems, and curtail their operations. The 14 attorneys general – who represent California, New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington – asserted that Musk has “roamed through the Federal government unraveling agencies, accessing sensitive data, and causing mass chaos and confusion for state and local governments, Federal employees, and the American people.” The suit argues that those actions by DOGE and Musk are unconstitutional because President Trump has granted Musk “virtually unchecked authority” without first obtaining the necessary legal authorization from Congress, and without conducting proper oversight of his activities. The states pointed to the Appointments Clause in the Constitution, which they said strengthens the separation of powers by requiring Congress to create an office before the President can appoint someone to head it, and by giving the Senate the right to confirm any nominee to run it. They safeguards, they argued, were violated by the power granted to Musk and his DOGE team by President Trump. https://meritalk.com/articles/states-file-suit-claiming-doge-authority-grant-unconstitutional/

What I get of this topic is, if there really is anything for an American in Thailand to worry about, it will happen in Pattaya, Phuket, or ChiangMai first.

Three senior Justice Department officials in New York and Washington resigned Thursday instead of complying with orders from the Trump administration to dismiss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The flurry of resignations in protest represents the sharpest rebuke to date of the President Donald Trump’s team leading the Justice Department, which has spent its opening weeks in office firing prosecutors connected to the cases against Trump and demanding information about the thousands of FBI agents involved in the investigations of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. In an eight-page letter, Danielle Sassoon quit her post as acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York instead of dropping the Adams case, saying the New York mayor’s attorneys “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo” to help Trump on immigration if the case was dropped. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/danielle-sassoon-eric-adams-us-attorney/index.html NB Ms. Sassoon was former law clerk for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.

No 'And' from me -- I just posted a quote from your link.

Per the OxfordBiodynamics website: Which doctor can order the PSE test? -- In the UK, EpiSwitch PSE can only be ordered by a private doctor at this time. The test is not yet available on the NHS. -- In the US, any healthcare provider (HCP) can order EpiSwitch PSE. https://www.94percent.com/ So, for Thailand as of now, the most accurate test is PSA + DRE.

From the NBC link in the OP: In his ruling Wednesday, O'Toole found that the unions lacked legal standing to bring the suit. (Judge O'Toole): "The plaintiffs here are not directly impacted by the directive." (Everett Kelley, the head of the one of the unions involved in the suit) also noted the ruling "did not address the underlying lawfulness of the program."

Of the 15 agencies Musk's team have targeted so far, nine were singled out for elimination or downsizing in Project 2025, a controversial 900-page blueprint compiled by conservative think-tanks to remake the U.S. government. The document claims many federal government agencies have been taken over by a left-wing elite who use taxpayer dollars to push a liberal agenda that is "weaponized against conservative values". Trump distanced himself from the project during the 2024 election after an uproar over some of its more far-reaching proposals, but a number of the authors are now in his administration. Bill Hoagland, a former Republican staffer and director of the Senate Budget Committee for more than 20 years, said the cost-cutting efforts so far have been designed to play to Trump's base, and have been "low hanging fruit for ideological reasons." "The playbook has not been for the dollar savings, but more for the philosophical and ideological differences conservatives have with the work these agencies do," Hoagland said. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-cuts-based-more-political-ideology-than-real-cost-savings-so-far-2025-02-12

That isn't 100% true. I use the 65K+ baht per month retirement extension regime and every year I supply a "source of funds" letter from the managing financial institution. That letter shows that the funds comply in effect with terms of the US-Thailand DTA. (Article 20 Paragraph 3.) My other source of funds is US Social Security.

I will just say again that there is no reference that I have seen of a tax free foreign remittance by a bona fide Thai tax resident as a gift on one of the major websites -- and if it has been done for decades why are the tax advisors still only offering opinions not saying that they have clients who do so regularly

The Thai Gift Tax was passed in 2016 and went into effect 2017 and -- at least based on my reading these pages and accountant/tax lawyer websites -- there is not documented one specific test case of a non-Thai tax resident remitting a foreign-sourced large transfer (up to 20 million baht) to a Thai spouse declared as a gift with no tax request from the Thai Revenue Department.

I will not answer the query as posed -- just to note when the 20 million baht figure was put in the 2016 Gift Tax regs, to the Thai citizen persons it was intended were saying : WOW Oh no! We can now ON LY declare no more than 20 million baht per year as a tax free gift? -- as gifts at the time were seen in the 2016 regs as a means to avoid inheritance taxes. Now for the expat crowd it has morphed to: WOW You mean we can give up to 20 million baht per year as a tax free gift?

Since one has been subject to a detailed medical underwriting in order to get the life insurance in the first place, that there will be some 'newly discovered' condition upon submitting a claim is not the same as with the initial health insurer underwriting.