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minus-squareHappySkullsplitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoThe president doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally close any department established by congress This is about to be insta-slapped-down by a federal judge
minus-squarecount_dongulus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoHe’s been doing it already. They ignore judges now, and Congress is complicit.
minus-squareHappySkullsplitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoThen it will have zero lasting effect if it isn’t a law Trump thinks he can rule by decree, but the entire government is going to become inoperable sooner than later without using the established procedures
minus-squareMirshe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoThat’s the point. That’s always been the point of GOP government: take an axe to the thing you don’t want, cry that it doesn’t work now that you took an axe to it, and get the Congressional or public greenlight to take the axe to it again.
The president doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally close any department established by congress
This is about to be insta-slapped-down by a federal judge
He’s been doing it already. They ignore judges now, and Congress is complicit.
Then it will have zero lasting effect if it isn’t a law
Trump thinks he can rule by decree, but the entire government is going to become inoperable sooner than later without using the established procedures
That’s the point. That’s always been the point of GOP government: take an axe to the thing you don’t want, cry that it doesn’t work now that you took an axe to it, and get the Congressional or public greenlight to take the axe to it again.