White House Vindicated in Belief That Congress Will Blindly Hand Over Power
With the room which should impatiently place another rubber stamp on a legislative priority of President Trump – his attempt, via a packet of termination, to legitimize the work of Elon Musk of gel and blocking of federal expenses earlier this year – the White House learned that it is not so difficult to intimidate the republicans of the Congress to let the executive branch do their work for themselves.
The head of the White House budget, Russ Vought, told journalists on Thursday, before the voting of the House, that he could soon send another package of termination to recover more federal funding which had already been authorized by the Congress.
“We are ready to send additional cancellations. I think that if it continues to pass, we are likely to send another rupture package that would come soon, and we will work on it to try to pass this through the finish line,” said Vought during a breakfast Christian Science Monitor on Thursday. He then suggested that it is a process that the Trump administration prefers, because he helps Trump to show “that you have the executive power by ensuring that this is not to understand a legislative branch of its own authorities and powers”.
Although it is a constitutionally rear approach to the way in which the congress is supposed to allocate expenses, the bills on cancellations are at least a legal place so that the executive power bends power over what is supposed to be a co-equal branch of the government. Vought’s plan to try to promulgate pocket cancellations this year – simply not spending money that Congress authorized until the end of the financial year in September – is a legally questionable decision which, according to many, will set up a legal battle with high issues on the separation of powers. The maneuver – that Vought has thought about it several times publicly – is a threat to the congress: adopting our cancellation invoices, or we will use the loop hole that we think we have found to get around completely.
By recognizing that the White House intends to try to force the Congress to suffocate more of its cuts on the efficiency of the Ministry of Effectiveness, Vought reveals how comfortable he is to ask the Republicans to give up their authority as a check on Trump.
At the same time, some Republicans finally concede that they are not completely comfortable with what the White House does – while, in most cases, stopping short of position.
Before the Senate’s vote on the cancellation package of $ 9 billion Thursday morning, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) said in a speech on the Senate prosecution which he was going to vote for the “reservation” measure. He specifically underlined the concerns concerning the legislative power to become too subject to the executive branch – in particular in the face of vocalized objections by several republicans of the Senate who said that they did not know what the bill on which they were going to vote. (Many of them nevertheless voted for this.)
Despite multiple requests from the GOP members of the Senate, Vought refused to clarify where the cuts come from exactly. Most of them finally voted for the measure despite everything.
“It concerns me – as perhaps the approach of a contempt for the constitutional responsibilities of the legislative branch under article I,” said Wicker. “Congress has the power of the handbag. The president has the power to enforce.
“So I expressed concern about it,” said Wicker.
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressed similar concerns and said that was what led him to vote “no” on the request to open a debate on the bill earlier this week. He, like Wicker, finally supported the measure.
Vought is inspired by the Senate Republicans who fell back to show their commitment to reducing federal spending.
“It is the time spent that the Republicans defend the congress as a co-equal branch of the government,” said senator Patty Murray (D-WA).
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Worrying even for Rubio
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is said to have sent advice to diplomats revising how the State Department recognizes democratic ideals abroad, in a decision that has experts concerned about the message he could report to countries dealing with authoritarian leaders. Per Wapo:
The United States should no longer comment on the elections publicly, in particular to assess whether the elections were “free and fair”, unless there is “a clear and convincing interest in foreign policy to do so,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a cable to diplomats sent on Thursday.
When there are messages on the elections, they should “avoid judging the equity or integrity of an electoral process, its legitimacy or the democratic values of the country in question,” wrote Rubio in the cable, which was first reported by the Daily signal.
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