Originally published at: “A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump and Vought Are Defying Congress on Foreign Aid - TPM – Talking Points Memo
“This story was originally published by ProPublica. After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely. But because it is a congressionally created agency, President Donald Trump needed lawmakers’ permission…
The badministration is essentially giving a middle fingered to Congress and the rethugs in charge say, “Thank you. Can I have another.”
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A presidential term is referred to as an administration because the executive branch is supposed to administer the laws and affairs of the country, not rule unilaterally. This administration and its enablers think it’s they have an authoritarian presidential regime going, and a lot of the country is totally comfortable with that. We’re going to have to remake our fundamental notions of democracy and power after Shitler leaves, and get away from the idea of an all-powerful president that has developed over the last few decades.
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