Mike Johnson Reminds House GOP That Legislating Isn’t That Important Right Now

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Giving their authority as members of a separate government branch but equal to the executive has become a frequent theme for the Republicans in the 119th congress. We have seen this trend take many different forms, especially among the Republicans of the Chamber who – at least to this point – were successfully convinced to ignore any legislative scruples they could have in order to win victories for President Trump.

At a given time in the days preceding a closure of the government in March, Trump successfully forged several Republicans of the Chamber, which were opposed to a short -term continuous resolution (CR) to maintain the open government, to support the measure by pointing out the Ministry of Government Effectiveness (DOGE), which suggests that it would make their reasonable diligence for them.

At the time, DOGE was up to its outburst, freezing federal expenses in crucial programs at an impossible pace. Trump assured that the republican legislators that Doge’s efforts would make federal expenses at pre-cook levels, so none of the details of the CR which they would finally adopt really. According to politico reports in March, Trump specifically declared to Holdouts that he would continue to put on the twist to continue to retain the funds appropriate by the congress.

This collapse of the separation of powers consecrated in the Constitution is something in which very few Republicans in the Congress, except a few senators, including Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), flashed. A large part of DOGE’s work can be understood as the executive branch which directs Roughshod on the Congress Authority to appropriate federal spending and finance government agencies. The republicans of the Chamber have sold their authority to the executive branch even more – although in a more formal way – when they have complicated the recent packaging of the attributions that the White House sent, lighting the green of the cancellation of previously approved federal funding.

While he is trying to get his conference to abandon their problems with the Senate version of the massive reconciliation package and return it to Trump’s office, the president of the Mike Johnson room (R-La) reminds once again to his members that their work does not really concern the legislation. Discovering what is in a bill is the president’s work, not theirs, he maintains. Mine emphasizing:

“We knew we would arrive at that time. We knew that the Senate would change the product of the room. I encourage them to modify it as slightly as possible. They went a little further as many of us would have preferred, but we have the product now,” Johnson told journalists, according to the hill. “As the president said,” It is his bill. It is not a bill in the Chamber, it is not a Senate bill, It is the bill of the American people. And my objective and my responsibility is to obtain this bill on the line. So we will do everything possible to do it, and I will work with all our colleagues. »»

Capitulation of the day

Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, agreed to pay $ 16 million in Trump as part of a settlement agreement with the president. Trump continued the “60 minutes” of CBS on an interview she made with the presidential candidate of the time, Kamala Harris, saying that she had been published to improve her answers. The money will be spent for the future presidential library of Trump, as part of the agreement.

By NBC News:

Paramount also declared that it was agreed that in the future “60 minutes” would publish the transcriptions of interviews with the candidates for the American presidential elections eligible after the dissemination of the interviews, “subject to the drafting required for the problems of legal or national certainty”.

“The regulations do not include a declaration of apology or regrets,” said the company.

The proposed regulations arise while Paramount is the attempt to finish a merger of several billion dollars with Skydance Media which must be approved by the Trump administration. Paramount has maintained that the problems are separated.

At least one senator asked that the agreement be investigated as corruption.

All goodies

Texas dates back to the clock on medical care

The exasperating relationships of Propublica reveals that, in the midst of fear and uncertainty that accompany Texas abortion, doctors hesitate before providing procedures for women who made a miscarriage. The procedure is used to prevent hemorrhage, but, as it can also be used to make an abortion, doctors are reluctant.

Propublica’s data analysis found:

• After the state set up a draconian ban in 2022, the number of women who needed blood transfusions during emergency visits to false layers of the first quarter increased by 54%.
• The number of emergency visits in the first quarter increased by 25%, which suggests that women arrived or eventually returned to hospitals in a state of distress that doctors from other states easily help patients to avoid.

The man for the moment

Good plug on a bad plug

Trump yesterday threatened to expel, or to stop, or to do something sinister for the Democratic candidate of New York to the mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who supports Trump, “many people say” is here illegally (he is not).

Regarding denaturalization

Josh Kovensky of TPM: Doj opens the door to citizenship to undress politics

January 6 Rioter obtains a work of doj

A former FBI agent who encouraged the rioters of the Capitol to attack the police is now an advisor to the manager of the DoJ (and former defender of insurrectionists on January 6) Ed Martin. The prosecutors said that the man in question, Jared Wise, told police officers keeping the Capitol that they were comparable to the Gestapo and shouted “Kill ‘Em! Kill’ Em! Kill ‘Em!” While the riot intensified. He was charged as part of the attack in 2023, and his case was rejected when Trump returned to office.

Martin, whom Trump tried and failed to head the DCUS lawyer’s office, now occupies a certain number of roles in the Doj, notably in the direction of a new “armament” working group to investigate the so -called procedures of prosecution that targeted Trump and his supporters.

The unknown federal independent agency which could

On Tuesday, an independent federal agency that resisted the Trump administration attempts to take over it won a key victory in court, bringing a radical affirmation of the executive authority, which had prevailed, would be another example of the power to tear the White House in the Congress.

The background:

• In March, Josh Kovensky of TPM noted that the US African Development Foundation (USADF) had succeeded in resisting the administration of Trump, while many others had fallen: the US African Development Foundation pushed Doge, and Pete Marocco, an American agency for international development development, which held the administration to install as president of the actor of the actor. (Marocco was also identified by open source resources as having participated in January 6)
• To set up Morocco, the administration affirmed a new radical interpretation of the executive power, affirming that, although the board of directors of the agency is confirmed by the Senate, Trump could install a new member of the board of directors itself, part of its “inherent authority under article II” of the Constitution.
• “Here what you have is a president who says, well, the post, so I am authorized to temporarily appoint someone in this position without advice and consent of the Senate, but that is not how it works,” said law professor Nicholas Bednar at Josh at the time. “It would actually be just a runoff on the capacity of the congress to verify who the president wants in power.”

On Tuesday, the USADF prevailed before the court, with the American district judge Richard Leon, a appointed appointed by George W. Bush, blocking the takeover after having concluded that “the Constitution probably does not accept the president with the power to appoint Moroccoco as a member of the acting board of directors to the USADF”.

“While the defendants argue that the president has a power inherent in article II to appoint main officers in acting, there is little hope for the defendants that this argument will win the day,” concluded Leon later.

Doge Guy against Doge Guy

Politico:

An ally of President Donald Trump and the former adviser to the Ministry of Government efficiency James Fishback on Tuesday is launching a Super PAC called FSD PAC designed to blunt Elon Musk’s political ambitions.

FSD PAC, a play on Tesla’s “full self-), means full support for Donald.

Its strategy is to be a bulwark against Musk’s threats – real or perceived, and comes while several Republicans raise the shoulders of the last social media that are worried in a world where Trump so completely commands the loyalty of the Gop base.

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