Congressional Republicans are happily handing their power over to Trump
It is a story as old as January 2025: GOP legislators believe that their main work is to help President Donald Trump to do what he wants – even if “everything he wants” means “transforming the Congress into a relic without power”. Their last decision is to join the White House to attack the government’s responsibility office.
The Trump administration would very much like to prevent the GAO from investigating Trump’s spending actions or to determine whether these actions violate the law, despite the fact that it is the real work of GAO. The White House I found a friend In the republicans of the house, who impatiently proposed to reduce the GAO budget by half to ensure that he cannot do his job.
There is no doubt that the average republican member of Congress is not exactly a history of history, but it is not difficult to learn that Congress itself Created the Gao over a century ago and expanded his role In the budgeting process over 50 years ago. Gao problems legal decisions On the detention control law – that which Trump continues to ignore by simply refusing to spend funds appropriate by the congress. The Gao is also part of the legislative branch, which is why the republicans of the congress who turn around and show their belly to Trump is so exasperating.
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More exasperating is that GAO is in fact responsible for things for which the so-called Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government pretended to be responsible for the moment when it was mad with the whole government. GAO efforts to eliminate waste and fraud led to $ 725 billion In the financial advantages since 2011. Their latest report has identified $ 100 billion in estimated savings that have been made by adopting GAO efficiency recommendations. On the other hand, the DOGE directed by Elon Musk almost invented figures which were billions of cups, then billions, then billions, then -! Please just does not mention The reign of Terror of Doge somehow led to an increase in public spending over a comparable period in 2024.
Remember the false ridiculi DOGE dashboardWho was supposed to be the most transparent of all time, but is rather a list of agency melines that seem to be able to click on but lol you cannot. The 2 billions of dollars promised to Doge Saving should not.
But did you know that Gao had a real dashboard with real data and that the Trump administration was removed because she said that she had revealed sensitive information? Of course, yes. Monday, in response to a trial of two groups of dust dogs, a federal judge ordered The site restored due to a congress mandate in 2022 that spending decisions were published online. Let’s face it, however: the orders of the lower court do not mean anything, because in the end, the administration will go to the Supreme Court and deprive them to eliminate the decision –Probably. But for the moment, we can bask in the loss of the administration.
If the republicans of the congress were not so eager to let Trump radically upset the separation of powers which is at the heart of American democracy, they would be indignant by the attempts of his administration to neutralize a dog on the legislative branch. But this guard dog is so annoying, noting that the administration illegally retained the funds on just onebut two opportunities. For what it’s worth, the Administration position This is what it is always: no other branch of the government can say what to do, everything that is unfavorable to the administration is a partisan attempt to undermine Trump’s agenda, and they will simply ignore it.
In the end, trampling the GAO is logical for the administration, because it is eager to eliminate all obstacles to its attempts to consolidate all the power in the executive power and to allow the administration to keep its opaque and undisputed expenses. For the Republicans in the Congress, however, it makes no sense to withdraw while Trump takes off their power. They therefore do not stand out. They will help instead.
Of course, that means to give in the power of Congress to Trump, but what is a small destruction of the separation of powers with friends?
