I think the point they're trying to make is that you're right but Israel tries to make themselves "Judaism incarnate" and deflects criticism of their actions with antisemitism claims, which muddies the water and some people make that association, which puts Jews at risk everywhere.
Frion iced
A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him
I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit
Jay CEO of BlueSky announcing she's handing the reins to a man who spells Toni with an i
Toni-with-an-i is a partner at Trueventures
Trueventures is an AI-centered VC firm
BlueSky was fun while it lasted but it was never going to be able to escape the vultures in the long run
THERE WAS A TEEN IN AN AQUABATS HOODIE AT THE MALL
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
CBP didn't break the law. When Trump made these orders they were made to improvise to implement things best they could with the tools they had. Now that they have to unwind it, the scale has exceeded the ability of the current setup to reasonably cure. They'll have something soon, probably.
brianmcginnisnc Brian McGinnis' wife has NOT been allowed to see him in the hospital. He is currently awaiting surgery for severe injuries. Legal counsel has also been denied access. A Marine veteran. A firefighter. A father of four. And his family still cannot see him.
so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm
Did anyone else think that first guy was on a moving sidewalk for some reason
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”
Screaming
Not to be a pedant but the reason CBP can't do it right now is they dont have the systems or manpower to process refunds at this scale and they need time to work out a solution that gets the refunds back. They arent declining to do it, just accurately pointing out they cannot handle this work rn.
For sure, I trust them as far as I can throw them. The person who wrote the filing for CBP today is a systems guy who's been there since 2022 and everything he says is reasonable and seems correct. That's not to say some goon at Treasury won't stonewall everything, would surprise me if they don't.
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW FUNCTIONALITY IN ACE 27. CBP has a history of developing effective processes to meet its legal responsibilities and operational needs that also provide efficiencies for industry, and we continue to do so now. In preparing for the potential need to refund IEEPA duties, CBP has considered how to implement a process to issue IEEPA duty refunds in a more efficient manner than the above-described, currently available processes. CBP is confident that it can develop and implement new ACE functionality that will streamline and consolidate refunds and interest payments on an importer basis, rather than issuing 53,173,939 separate entry- specific refunds with multiple payments going to the same importer. Though operational, legal, and technical considerations may require alterations or modifications, CBP anticipates that the process will involve the following steps: • The importer files a declaration in ACE that includes a list of entries on which IEEPA duties were paid. • ACE runs a series of validations on each entry within the declaration and Case 1:26-cv-01259-RKE Document 31 Filed 03/06/26 Page 11 of 13 12 automatically re-calculates the duty owed without the IEEPA tariffs (with applicable interest). • CBP verifies the declaration and processes refunds as soon as practicable. • ACE automatically finalizes (liquidates or reliquidates) the entries. • ACE automatically aggregates the refunds with interest by importer and liquidation date. • CBP certifies the refunds. • The Department of the Treasury issues IEEPA refunds electronically. 28. CBP estimates that the automated controls described above will save CBP over 4 million hours compared with the manual processes it would otherwise have to complete. 29. CBP is making all possible efforts to have this new ACE functionality ready for use in 45 days. T
In the court filing, they outline their plan.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Currently, ACE can support large scale uniform changes of the same data element(s) across a group of Entry Summaries. However, current system limitations allow CBP to process a maximum of 10,000 Entry Summary lines in one submission. Additionally, the Case 1:26-cv-01259-RKE Document 31 Filed 03/06/26 Page 8 of 13 9 mass processing function requires CBP personnel to manually compile Excel spreadsheets that identify batches of subject entries. To mass process the removal of the hundreds of HTSUS numbers for IEEPA duties from entries, CBP would need to manually execute approximately 170,000 mass update actions to cover the 1,684,648,252 Entry Summary lines that need to be updated. Additionally, it is not uncommon for this mass processing operation to kick out (or fail to process) entries with anomalies that need to be individually evaluated and addressed, adding an unquantifiable amount of time given the unprecedented magnitude of this effort
The current system requires refunds be certified for accuracy by personnel from both CBP’s Office of Field Operations and Office of Finance, separately, before submission to the Department of the Treasury for issuance. Assuming each Entry Summary with IEEPA tariffs is entitled to a refund, then 53,173,939 refunds would need to go through this process. There is no workaround in ACE that would allow this process to be circumvented. 22. CBP published the Interim Final Rule (IFR) Electronic Refunds (91 FR 21), stating that effective February 6, 2026, CBP will issue all refunds electronically. Yet, many Case 1:26-cv-01259-RKE Document 31 Filed 03/06/26 Page 9 of 13 10 importers have not taken the necessary steps to receive refunds electronically. Pursuant to the IFR, all CBP refunds have been electronic as of February 6, 2026. There are 330,566 importers who have paid IEEPA duties or duty deposits. While CBP has issued numerous communications regarding the new rule, only 21,423 entities (mostly importers or their customs brokers) have completed the set-up process to receive their refunds electronically. Until importers complete the process to receive refunds electronically, the refunds will be rejected. Since February 6, 2026, CBP has been unable to process 7,700 refunds for 2,897 importers because those importers had not completed the necessary steps to receive refunds electronically.
Once the review of an entry is complete and any manual duty calculations completed (see paragraph 18 above), it takes an IS or ES approximately 5 minutes to process an individual refund, including amending, liquidating and certifying the refund for each entry. The refund processing for the 53,173,939 entries with IEEPA duties will require 4,431,161 man hours for CBP to complete. 25. It is not feasible for CBP to divert all IS and ES personnel to processing IEEPA duty refunds on a full-time basis with no time off. If CBP’s IS and ES personnel were diverted to focus full-time on processing IEEPA duty refunds for the millions of entries and Entry Summary lines on which IEEPA duties have been paid, CBP’s other functions Case 1:26-cv-01259-RKE Document 31 Filed 03/06/26 Page 10 of 13 11 and responsibilities would be severely disrupted and the agency would not be able to continue to adequately perform its mission, including its revenue protection mandate and its vital national security functions.
nterest payments on an importer basis, rather than issuing 53,173,939 separate entry- specific refunds with multiple payments going to the same importer. Though operational, legal, and technical considerations may require alterations or modifications, CBP anticipates that the process will involve the following steps: • The importer files a declaration in ACE that includes a list of entries on which IEEPA duties were paid. • ACE runs a series of validations on each entry within the declaration and Case 1:26-cv-01259-RKE Document 31 Filed 03/06/26 Page 11 of 13 12 automatically re-calculates the duty owed without the IEEPA tariffs (with applicable interest). • CBP verifies the declaration and processes refunds as soon as practicable. • ACE automatically finalizes (liquidates or reliquidates) the entries. • ACE automatically aggregates the refunds with interest by importer and liquidation date. • CBP certifies the refunds. • The Department of the Treasury issues IEEPA refunds electronically. 28. CBP estimates that the automated controls described above will save CBP over 4 million hours compared with the manual processes it would otherwise have to complete. 29. CBP is making all possible efforts to have this new ACE functionality ready for use in 45 days. This new process will require minimal submission from importers. It will also
It does, but the way the system works now is that refunds are validated through a process that can involve a lot of manual work. It's hard to explain without getting too in the weeds. In the filing they describe the problem and their proposed solution:
Anyone who follows me knows I know this stuff pretty well and before everyone goes apeshit about this-- CBP says they *will* refund the tariffs, but their systems are not set up for this scale of unprecedented refunds. They ask for 45 days to create a solution, which they outlined.
Refunds coming.
There is not- not at this scale.
In the court filing CBP is trying to comply, and will pay with interest. It's just that the scale of these refunds is beyond anything they've ever been tasked to do, by orders of magnitude. They are working on a solution and promise to have it within 45 days.
They are attempting to comply and laying out a plan of how they will, but their current system is not sufficient to handle this unprecedented demand of refund. In the filing with the CIT, CBP promised a solution within 45 days and they'll probably have one.
CBP doesn't handle the money, Treasury does, CBP's objections are reasonable, detailed, and system-based. They just can't handle the volume of refund transactions.
They:
1. Do not have the personnel to handle this
2. The computer system cannot work at this scale
3. They will have a solution within 45 days that will work better
It seems like it will be a modified "protest" process and should work fine.
CBP doesn't hold $$ from duties. That's all Treasury.
I'd like to clarify for anyone reading: this is because IEEPA stuff was so wildly illegal from the jump that CBP had to improvise to make it work. Now that CBP is being mandated to refund $166 billion spread across 30 million import entries they are (correctly) saying that their system can't do it.
CBP puts the blame on legacy IT systems. To be blunt, while these problems may be completely valid, this is entirely the fault of the government.
You have to first get an ACE account for your company (not everyone has one or has access to it; it can be complicated to get it) and then you have to fill out the particulars of the refund module. Most didnt bother because checks came anyways, and electronic-pay-only only started 2/6/26.
Yeah- that's on both CBP and importers. This is in line with Trump's mandating of eliminating checks. CBP loved writing checks, and it took them a while to transition to ACH everything for refunds. Lots of importers were never set up to get those (it only implemented abt a month ago) and just havent
Believe it or not, it's much better than it used to be. A lot of money has been allocated to improving it, and it has worked somewhat, but it has to do so many things and do them perfectly that it ends up a boondoggle. These are long-term problems just becoming public-facing for the first time.
As someone who works with these systems daily- there are a lot of limitations! It's not even "legacy", most of the ACE system is relatively recently updated. It's just big and weird and mostly sucks, and has lots of limitations. This is the system that governs trade every day.
Customs big system called "ACE" has a lot of weird limitations. It's annoying to work with and doesn't surprise me isn't up to the task.
Post anything critical about her or a bunch of other high profile Democrats and you will inevitably catch a bunch of blocks immediately
Kristi Noem before and after her MAGA plastic surgery mistakes
dog this is straight up fucking crazy
