The people who put this countries government together envisioned a push/pull between differnt part of the executive, legislative and judical branches…
In the last several months?
It’s just be the Judges vs The Prersident….
Congress, under the Republicans, with the Democrats NOT having the votes, has handed over it’s power against the President….Willingly….
And will vote to confirm this shortly again ….
Of course ?
This will NOT…
The same Republican who champion Trump and his buddy Musk’s action find themselves under seize back home…
Midterm Election’s are a little more that a year and a half away…
The ‘political rent’ will be come due in less that a year when 2026 campaigning begins…
Donald Trump and Elon Musk aren’t on the ballots….
A LOT of Republicans WILL be…
The Republican-led Congress isn’t just watching the Trump administration gobble up its constitutional powers. It is enthusiastically turning them over to the White House.
G.O.P. lawmakers are doing so this week by embracing a stopgap spending bill that gives the administration wide discretion over how federal dollars are distributed, in effect handing off the legislative branch’s spending authority to President Trump. But that is just one example of how Congress, under unified Republican control, is proactively relinquishing some of its fundamental and critical authority on oversight, economic issues and more.
As they cleared the way for passing the spending measure on Tuesday, House Republicans leaders also quietly surrendered their chamber’s ability to undo Mr. Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China in an effort to shield their members from having to take a politically tough vote. That switched off the only legislative recourse that Congress has to challenge the tariffs that are all but certain to have a major impact on their constituents.
Republicans have also stood by, many of them cheering, as the administration has upended federal departments and programs funded by Congress and fired thousands of workers with no notice to or consultation with the lawmakers charged with overseeing federal agencies. So far, no congressional committee has held an oversight hearing to scrutinize the moves or demand answers that would typically be expected when an administration undertakes such major changes…
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But the sentiment he described encapsulates the overarching attitude of Republicans in Congress at the dawn of Mr. Trump’s second term, as they happily acknowledge they are turning control over to the president, who in turn is benefiting from perhaps the most compliant Congress in history.
“They are actively giving it away,” Senator Martin Heinrich, Democrat of New Mexico, said of his Republican colleagues’ attitude toward congressional authority. “And they are doing so in an atmosphere where it’s clear this administration is willing to abuse the power they already have.”
In the past, lawmakers of both parties have fiercely protected their turf, pushing back strongly at moments when presidents have attempted to usurp congressional prerogatives….
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When House Republicans believed the Obama administration was illegally spending money on health care subsidies, they filed suit in 2014 and won a federal ruling that “Congress is the only source for such an appropriation.” Even as recently 2017, when Republicans controlled Congress during Mr. Trump’s first term, a Senate panel investigated whether Russia had interfered in the 2016 election to help his campaign, ultimately issuing a report that supported that finding.
With the House and Senate so polarized and legislative success so difficult to achieve in recent years, power has been inexorably gravitating down Capitol Hill toward occupants of the White House, which has been more than willing to try and exercise it with executive orders and other unilateral action.
But Mr. Trump is taking the shift to new levels, in part because of his iron grip on congressional Republicans, which he exercises through a combination of cultivating warm personal relationships with them and the constant threat that they will pay a hefty political price for crossing him….
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“This is the Super Bowl,” Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News in describing how Congress would work with Mr. Trump to change the way government functions. “This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for our entire careers, and finally, the stars have aligned so we can do that better.”
But Mr. Trump, Mr. Musk and other top administration officials have already made it clear that they have little regard for Congress’s authority, and Mr. Johnson has positioned himself more as a subordinate to the president than the leader of a coequal branch of government with its own power. And once lawmakers have yielded their authority, they are likely to find it hard to claw it back, whether under Mr. Trump or a future president…
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“They are abdicating their most important Constitutional obligation: oversight over the executive branch on trade,” said Representative Richard E. Neal of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee who had led the effort to force a vote on resolutions to end the tariffs. “Republicans have unequivocally showed us who they are — cowards who kowtow to the president on everything including the economy.”
In the past, Congress has typically called Cabinet secretaries and other high-ranking agency officials to the carpet to explain administrative overhauls of far less significance than the chaotic firings, program suspensions and funding cuts the Trump administration is now executing. There is no sign of that yet from the Republican Congress…..
Note…
It IS IMPORTANT to understand that Trump isn’t robbing the store…
Republicans in Congress are GIVING IT TO Him….
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