Originally published at: The Trump Admin Gets Ready to Seize Congress’ Power of the Purse
The Trump White House is planning to send a second rescissions request to Capitol Hill in the coming weeks, hoping to extract a legislative stamp of approval for its efforts to impound funding that was previously authorized by Congress. This new request would come on the heels of congressional Republicans approving the administration’s first rescissions…
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“It will go to the Supreme Court, and then hopefully the Supreme Court will rule the correct way,” Kogan said.
The Roberts Court is happy to aggregate legislative power for itself — it will come up with a cockamamie standard of “executive adjacent” that determines which pocket recissions are permissible and then hang up a sign saying “consult us to see if a budget item meets our new cockamamie standard.” then, during the Trump administration, all recissions will be executive adjacent, but that will stop if the Democrats ever take power again.
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“Pocket rescissions are illegal, in my judgment"…"And contradict the will of Congress and the constitutional authority of Congress to appropriate funds.”
“And I’m going to scrunch my face and really give them a stern look when I either vote to approve it or take one of the 3 freebie no votes that won’t stop it from passing. This is the best you’re ever going to get, Maine.”
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Traveling this week through Italy and Turkey: They arnt angry - they pitty us. One government official (over beers) asked me “what the hell is going on in your shithole country?” It was a sobering conversation.
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Good morning all.
It’s another crazy day in America
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Good morning darr ! You know the old joke.,. “ could be worse, could be raining ! “ It’s raining here in Punta Gorda, storm blew in overnight and the creek thru my property is over the banks. But it’s rainy season in Belize
and not considered a problem. And I’ll choose floods & pestilence etc over the Orange Idiot any day
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'Sposed to be rainy season here too but the monsoon trail is favoring New Mexico and Texas
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Does anyone have even the slightest confidence the MAGA 6 on the Supreme Court will enforce the Constitution and laws?
They will do the following. A lower court will stay the Trump regime’s impoundment of Congressionally authorized money. The MAGA 6 will take the appeal. The MAGA 6 will end the stay in the shadow docket, and take years to rule on the merits. Then, just in time to bind the next president (likely a Democrat if there is a free and fair election in 2028), they’ll rule impoundments are illegal and unconstitutional.
See? It’s a way to let the Trump regime flout the law and bind a Democratic president.
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Congress dodges their responsibilities of power of the purse as easily as a 5 time draft dodger dodged the Draft.
Since all the Repub Congress do is say yes Donnie, should we be paying them?
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It worked so well the first time that I’m not surprised they went back to the well to try it again.
The question I have is, where is all the money going that was budgeted and approved by Congress, but is no longer going to the recipients?
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We got some great clouds here in central NM, but only sprinkles* mixed with blowing dust.
*Not John McCain donut sprinkles.
*No Donald, not your kind of sprinkles either.
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a loophole… that allows them to declare congressionally approved funding rescinded if a rescissions package is sent to Congress close to the end of the fiscal year when funds will expire.
Didn’t think of that one, did you Founding Fathers?
This is Republican governance. Hire a bunch of lawyers – paid for by taxes on other people – to scour every word of legislation, matched to every dictionary they can find back to the 10th Century, so they can argue that a law allows the president to do something nobody wants.
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I used to think Steven Miller was the most loathsome employee of the Gang of Idiots, but Mr. Vought is racing to the front. Worst still, this man is a Dominionist Christian, who mistakenly thinks that this government should operate on Biblical principles. News flash, sir, what exactly do you think the First Amendment ban on establishment of religion really means??
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Russ Vought wants to traumatize civil servants. I’d like to see him traumatized.
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One-party rule with one criminal idiot at the top. That’s what White Christians want
I like to watch this secretly recorded Russ Vought interview every now and then to rile myself up and refresh my memory about who’s aiming to set all the rules for America ASAP.
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^
THIS
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Don’t count on the SCOTUS to do anything but rule in favor of tRump.
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Even with a few beers it was sobering. 
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Translation: “Please stop making us look so weak 
.”
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