Showing posts with label power of the purse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power of the purse. Show all posts
Friday, March 21, 2025

Like Trump, Musk arrogantly dismisses limits on executive power and belittles Congress' power of the purse, Congress wallows in servitude to his seizure of power

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   ... Asked later that day whether Congress should weigh in on his widespread cuts, Musk responded, “Well, they do have a vote.” ... the a...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Judge John McConnell blocks Trump's freeze on federal grants and loans, citing the executive's usurpation of Congress' power of the purse

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  A second federal judge indefinitely blocked President Trump’s blanket freeze on federal grants and loans, saying the administration “put ...

Our servile GOP senators, who have been completely by-passed by DOGE, try to tell Elon Musk that he can't do that lol, now have to ask pretty please from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles

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  What an absolutely contemptible lot. GOP senators tell Musk DOGE actions will require their votes  Republican senators told tech billionai...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Hakeem Jeffries should welcome a government shutdown on March 14 because Trump is now a bad faith president who oversteps Congress' power of the purse and can't be trusted

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Really, Democrat leadership is looking at it all wrong. Just shut it down and go home. That's what Democrat legislators have had to do i...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Repealing the 22nd Amendment is a great idea, but not Republican Andy Ogles' (TN-5) idea of revising it to allow Trump a third term but not Clinton, Bush 43, nor Obama

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 Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House Ogles' idea that Trump was denied the power inherent in two ...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Then most Federalist Society folks are kooky: Senators and Representatives and Judges keep chairs warm for decades while POTUS becomes a lame duck immediately upon re-election

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We live under the spendthrift tyranny of the legislative feared by Madison, with its access to the pockets of the people, augmented by a ...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

"Improper" drawing of congressional districts is not the problem, improper restriction of the number of districts is

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To Fix Our Democracy, First End Gerrymandering : Gerrymandering, the pervasive practice of drawing congressional districts for politica...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Matthew Continetti is delusional, imagines Republicans after 2010 "overreached", thinks Democrats might after 2018

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Here , when in reality the so-called Tea Party Congress utterly capitulated. It continued to ratify the new level of Obama's spend...