While President Trump moves unilaterally to reduce federal bureaucracy and compensate for long -term policies, Republicans in Congress began a spray of standard cancellation, using a mysterious law to quietly confuse but steadily in the rules of the Biden era, they say they harm companies and consumers.
In recent weeks, the Republican Party has pushed through a set of legislation to cancel the regulations related to big and small matters, from Supervising the companies that emit toxic pollutants To the energy efficiency requirements for freezing walking and water heaters.
To do this, they use an unknown law in 1996, a law of reviewing Congress, which allows legislators unlike the recently adopted federal regulations by a simple majority in both rooms. It is a strategy they used in 2017 during the first term of Mr. Trump and tend again because they are working to find ways to go around democratic opposition and make the most of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House.
But this time, Republicans test the limits of the law in a way that can expand greatly in its use and undermine a virus, the Senate base that actually requires 60 votes to move forward in any major legislation.
Since rejection decisions under the Congress review law only need a majority vote, they are some of the only legislation that can avoid an intensity in the Senate. This allows them to circumvent party networks that stand in the way of the most important bills.
So far this year, Mr. Trump has signed three such measures: one of the Biden era regulations on cryptocurrency brokers, other cancellation fees for methane emissions and the third that eliminates additional environmental assessments of potential oil and gas developers abroad. Five others, including one who cancels a $ 5 roof on the exposed withdrawal fees from the bank, cleared Congress and waited for Mr. Trump’s signature.
This is much slower than eight years ago, when Get Republicans 13 Obama administration rules in the first 100 days of Mr. Trump in his position. Before that, the law was used only once, when President George W. Bush reflected The work environment base during the Clinton era.
Republicans are now trying to move forward with the law, including its use to attack the state’s regulations effectively blessed by the federal government. Home this week He passed three rejection decisions It would eliminate California strict Air pollution standards for trucks And cars by rejecting concessions from the Environmental Protection Agency that allowed them to transform.
This step will permanently prevent federal organizers from writing a similar base in the future. Both government and parliamentary accounting office, who is responsible for imposing the rules of the Chamber, said that the environmental protection agency does not constitute federal regulations. Thus, it is not subject to the Congress review law.
The pressure on Senator John Thun, the Republican in South Dakota and the leader of the majority, is now to decide whether to follow the measures anyway, avoiding parliament in a move to undermine filbuster.
Mr. Thun’s decision is a bit of the Warm Effairs Law to confront more subordinate subsequent dependence in the year as Republicans are trying to present the agenda of Mr. Trump through the budget reconciliation process, which is another way for the legislation from one of the cases. Senate members of the Republican Party He is already gone around Parliament In early April, when they paid a budget scheme, the continued tax cuts of Mr. Trump as cost -free, although non -party budget -with budgets estimated that he cost him about 4 trillion dollars over a decade.
Two official speakers of Mr. Thun did not immediately respond to multiple requests to comment on the phone or e -mail about whether he would try to challenge or circumvent parliament in another way on the actions of the Congress Review Law.
Democrats argue that the Republicans’ efforts to kill the Environmental Protection Agency exemptions amount to overcoming the rights of states. They say that the motivation can be inadvertently subject a large number of executive procedures, such as leasing rights for oil and gas fields, as well as assignment of Medicaid government programs, to review Congress.
“Republicans in the House of Representatives had set a dangerous precedent,” said actor Frank Balon Junior from New Jersey, the Democratic Representative of the Energy and Trade Committee. “This means that endless numbers of the executive measures taken throughout the federal government will be at the mercy of the political wind for a few in Congress.”
During the discussion this week on the measures that the Environmental Protection Agency exemptions canceled, actor Zoe Lovgrin, California Democrat, said: “The misuse of the Congress review law is not the slope that you want to slip.”
On the other hand, Republicans argue that the scope of review powers should not be determined by unacceptable bureaucrats.
“The members of the Congress – not Gao, not the parliamentarian – who decides how to advance under CR
In both cases, experts warned that Republicans may regret reading the statute on a large scale. Doing this may be a powerful tool for democratic democracy, the Democrats, Michael Thorning, said that doing so may be a powerful tool for the democrats to retract the regulations that they do not like when they one day return to power.
Mr. Thuning said: “The more it extends and expands these operations, the more it undermines the extent that it may eventually become meaningless if it is transferred to the maximum.”
“At the end of the day, this is the decision of Congress,” he added. “The accounting office and parliamentarians are just consultants. Therefore, as you know, members will have to take responsibility for these decisions.”
When President Joseph R. entered. Biden Junior was in 2021, Democrats in Congress took a braid of Republicans and Obama’s hats were restored to methane emissions The Trump administration spent years in work through executive work.
Republican payment to take a more aggressive position comes regarding the federal regulations imposed by the Biden administration because the party has largely abdicated the powers of the legislative branch – due to spending, trade and supervision of the Trump administration.
Some Democrats borrow tactics and pressure the use of the Congress review law to back down from Mr. Trump’s executive actions, including his transfer of the federal workforce.
Senator Jeff Merkeley of Oregon and actor Maxine Waters in California, both Democrats, suggested a bill that would make the plans of the Federal Agency employees – including collective workers known as the “applicable discounts” carried out by the Trump administration – according to the review of Congress.
This procedure will also require agencies to justify the proposed employee discounts, determine the impact on employees and agencies, and provide any alternatives to the agency. It has no realistic opportunity to survive the Republican -controlled Congress, and will definitely be rejected by Mr. Trump,
“The mass fire is an attack on the separation of the authorities,” Mr. Merkeley said in an interview. “These have very great effects on providing services to Americans, and Congress must have a sound in it.”
Mr. Merkeley criticized the Republicans for using the Audilation Law to try to attack California’s Environmental Protection Agency, arguing that such a step constitutes a “nuclear option” aimed at carving a completely new set of policy issues from the Senate Virus.
“If the Republicans want to expand the law of reviewing Congress, they must do this through legislation, and not through a fictitious reinterpretation,” said Mr. Mercli. “Do you want to expand the scope of the scope? Suggest a draft law. That’s what I do.”
