The constitutional battle at the center of Trump’s funding freeze: From the Politics Desk
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It was another day in Washington after President Donald Trump’s unexpected move overnight to stop the spending of federal aid. As Lawrence Hurley writes, he has sparked a constitutional battle that may end in the Supreme Court. Regarding immigration, Steve Cornki is digging in the reconnaissance numbers to show how the Americans have turned directly about the issue since the first time of Trump. Bridget Bowman collapses a major early development in the Battle of 2026 of the Senate.
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Trump’s efforts to block federal financing leads to a constitutional confrontation
Written by Lawrence Hurley
The Trump administration’s attempt to block federal financing feeds a long, long -standing legal battle on the basic constitutional principle that Congress gets to determine how taxpayers are spent.
As with President Donald Trump’s executive order about the newly born citizenship, the battle leads to immediate litigation that may end rapidly in the Supreme Court.
A lawsuit filed by non -profit groups that have already led a federal judge to Putting Trump’s plan to wait.
Trump’s office of management and budget has sparked a memorandum on Monday night, which requested an immediate bloc to spend on assistance and federal programs.
The administration said the goal is to evaluate programs to ensure its compatibility with the Trump agenda, although Congress has been approved by this funding. In a new note issued on Tuesday, the administration said that the matter does not constitute a funding for financing and is not subject to the reservation monitoring law.
The constitution specifically stipulates that Congress has the task of imposing taxes and spending money, giving it what is called colloquially as “the power of the portfolio.” This is the main power that Congress has in a confrontation with the separation of powers with the president.
“It seems clear to me that the Trump administration is hurting to reach this case to the Supreme Court,” said Sam Bagenstos, who was the General Adviser of the Boden Defeat in the Biden Administration. “The Trump administration clearly believes that they have a positive court.”
Chaos and confusion: The Trump administration’s transition suddenly stopped federal scholarships and loans to a large -scale disturbance throughout the government, Congress, state programs and non -profit organizations that depend on this funding, Shannon Pettypiece, Julie Tsirkin, Garrett Haake and Berkeley Lovelace Jr..
- What will be affected? It is not clear exactly the programs that will be stopped if the freezing enters into force. But OMB has sent a document asking agencies to obtain details about more than 2,600 programs, including school meals for low -income students, the US Foreign Aid Development Agency, mining inspections, WIC Women’s Nutrition Program and pregnant infants and a reintegration program for veterans.
- The White House is trying to clarify: A senior administration official said that financing programs that provide direct assistance to people will be excluded from stopping and exemption from the review process. It includes Medicaid and Food Stamps, small assistance in business, Hear Start, rental assistance, and Pell’s federal grants to university students, according to the Oomb Memorandum sent on Tuesday afternoon.
- Medicaid issues: State agencies have reported issues that reach federal financing sites and exchange systems, including Medicaid systems, which are used to manage and distribute federal funds. Secretary Caroline Levitt said the White House was aware of the intericaid site and was looking to repair it. (Read more about Levitt The first brief in the White House here))
How the opinions of Americans have turned on immigration since Trump’s first time
Written by Steve Cornki
Just as he did eight years ago, Donald Trump arrived at the presidency with promises to take a big line in immigration cases. But this time, he does this in a more favorable political atmosphere for his position.
Americans Now the most stage For the martyrdom of immigration as a supreme issue facing the country and its depth support for the efforts made to deport migrants who committed crimes. While these positions come with some differences (opposing policies that separate families still strong, for example), the total change is unambiguous.
For decades, watched a gallop survey General feelings on immigration. Its latest poll, which was conducted last summer during the campaign, found that the share of Americans who want to reduce immigration has almost doubled since Trump’s first term.
55 % of Americans who said immigration levels should decrease is the highest number measured in any survey in Gallup 24 years since the aftermath of the September 11 attack in 2001.
Although the vast majority of Americans still believe that immigration is positive, this opinion has also been weaker in recent years.
Moreover, the country is now almost completely divided into whether they should be illegally here, and whether they have committed crimes or not, are subject to deportation.
This transformed net from 20 points from 2019, when the Trump administration’s first detention policies were the source of the national controversy. The trend extends to other questions as well. The public still largely supports a way to citizenship for those here illegally, but the opposition has multiplied since Trump took office for the first time, from 15 % to 30 %. The support of the expanded border wall has reached a great deal of majority, a jump of 12 degrees Celsius since the first time of Trump.
and Epsus Poll/Reuters Trump was released last week that a number of Americans, 47 %, are now agreeing to his immigration approach. It is not exactly an overwhelming support, but it is better than he tended to fare in his first round. Looking at the right track of public opinion on this topic, it may represent a more floor than the ceiling.
Deportation: Federal enforcement agencies target three cities per week for migration arrests on a large scale, with Ura, Colorado, will come after that. Read more →
Gary Peters’ exit shakes the struggle for the Senate
By Bridge Bowman
Democratic Senator Gary Peters A decision not to run for his re -election In Michigan, it means that the decisive battlefield will host the Senate control key.
Here are three ways that can shake Peters retirement for the battle for the Senate, where Republicans have an edge of 53-47:
- Michigan was already a great goal from the Republican Party, as one of two states (along with Georgia) that Democrats in the Senate are defending that Trump won last year. It can be moved to the top of the target list now after it has become an open seat, because the democratic candidate will not have the advantages that come with a job.
- Peters exit puts more pressure on Democrats to stick to Bahaima to Michigan, who need to win to get any shot to flip the Senate. Democrats need a net profit from four seats for the heart of the room, and only one member of the Republican Party (Susan Collins) won his re -election in the state of Kamala Harris last year.
- Both parties may end with the crowded preliminary elections (this race can test the amount of party leaders want to experience one candidate to avoid division). The former Minister of Transport, Beit Boujejj, is among the potential candidates.
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