Republicans take a back seat as Trump steamrolls Congress with flurry of unilateral moves
Washington – President Donald Trump He tried to freeze up to hundreds of billions of dollars from federal funds and grant billionaire Elon Musk to reach the sensitive treasury systems that send trillion dollars. Trump and his team cleared the agency agencies, and senior executives at the FBI and Federal Public Prosecutors who worked on January 6.
Now, they want Trump and hold the intestine The United States Agency for International DevelopmentWhich gives tens of billions of dollars approved by the Congress to foreign allies every year.
They are all areas where members of Congress are either a direct force or a level of supervision. So far at every turn, Trump has overcome them.
Since he returned to the White House two weeks ago, Trump – at the height of his political strength after winning the popular vote – was expanding his executive authority and the Bukhari Congress while trying to reduce the government and rid him of anyone who realizes to be unreliable.
Usually, legislators are bidding about their supervision responsibilities and the strength of the portfolio as drainage points in a city where there is a continuous batch and withdrawal between the three branches of the government. But in the second Trump administration, Republicans are largely told by Trump, which carries a great level of influence among the major voters of the Republican Party.
Republicans, who control both the Congress rooms and previously listed against executive abuses by Democrats, sat on the margin as Trump implements controversial executive procedures – and sometimes legally questionable -. Instead, they root Trump wandering in Washington and testing the American checks and balances system.
Senator Tom Teleles, RN.C. said. , NBC News that democratic presidents also tried to “pay” their power.
“They will see how far they can go,” said Telis of the Trump administration. “I don’t judge them to do this.”
But Teles, who did not refer to examples of democratic presidents who seek bowel agencies through executive work, said that he would be “useful” if Trump sought to agree to Congress to refuse to spend the money required by Congress, such as the American Agency for International Development.
“I think it is legitimate.” Telis, who faces the re -election next year, said: “It will not only continue in the long run if it is not logical.”
Board Mike Johnson, R. La, said. He got a mandate from the American people. Let’s not forget that he ran to restore a healthy and financial sense and ensure that the government is more efficient. It was a major topic of the campaign. ”
A moderate Republic presented some words of caution to Trump for his efforts to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development.
“I am concerned about-I have questions about legitimacy,” said Senator Lisa Moorkovsky, RASCA.
Then it greatly summarized the silent reaction among most Republicans in Congress to Trump.
“We are all a kind of entry into a position: things happen, the news decreases, and there is an explosive reaction, then discover that, well, we are asking for demand or, well, there is no right and Morkovsky said.” Thus I think we are all just a kind of treatment and knowledge of response The occasion. “
With the exception of the attempt by the former deputy, which was made by the former public prosecutor in the scandal, the Senate Republics were also greatly emphasized in supporting Trump candidates amid pressure from his allies to reach the footage such as the choices of Defense Minister Beit Hing. There are more controversial nominations, such as Robert F. Kennedy Junior for Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services and Tolsi Gabbard to the Director of National Intelligence.
Usaid under attack
Musk said on Monday that the government of government efficiency, which Trump has been responsible for “closing the United States Agency for International Development”, and the agency’s employees were told that they will not be allowed to enter their headquarters in Washington and they must work from home. Later in the day, Trump suggested that the US Agency for International Development had been involved in “fraud” and said that he appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as an acting officer.
The Foreign Ministry said that Rubio informed Congress that “reviewing the activities of the US Agency for International Development is underway with a possible reorganization.”
20 or 30 years have passed since people tried to fix it, and refuses to reform. “He refuses to cooperate.” “When we were in Congress, we could not get answers to the basic questions about the programs. … This will not continue.”
When asked about NBC News if Trump can dismantle the US International Development Agency unilaterally without taking action in Congress, the majority leader of the Senate John Thun, Rurawi, rejected Trump’s criticism and hesitated to thwart Rubio that the agency did not share information on how to spend dollars Taxes.
“I think it is a lot about discovering how to spend dollars, and where they go and whether they agree with the administration and the priorities of our country when it comes to our national interests,” Thun said.
At the end of his first week in office, Trump He launched 18 independent inspectorsThose who were assigned to investigate fraud, waste and abuse within federal agencies. Chuck Grasli, Chairman of the Judicial Committee of Democrats and Speaker of the Senate, said, ” The law violates Grassley helped in writing that requires the president to make a 30 -day notice of Congress before removing a public inspector and saying the reason.
However, Grassley was a large indication of Trump.
“There may be a good reason to launch IGS. He said at the time:” We need to know this if so. “
Last week, the Republicans seemed to have signed outside the guard after the White House tried to stop all federal loans and grants unilaterally-which was approved by Congress-so it could review that the money was not funding initiatives. The leaders of the Republican Party gathered behind the freezing of the planned funding, with the Chairman of the Credit Committee in the House of Representatives Tom Cole, R-OKla, who is an old, institutional warrior and warriors in Congress, 22 years old, saying that he “has no problem” with Trump’s actions and others calling him “legal. completely”.
Hours later, after Trump canceled, which froze grants and loans and raised confusion throughout the country, the Republicans applauded this step. A federal judge also prohibited Trump’s temporary freezing last week, although the American provincial judge, Lauren Alejhan, said on Monday that some forms of federal aid. It still seems freezing.
Democrats take a position
With the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, Republicans can use committees to launch investigations and prepare Trump officials for records and certificates. But at the present time, this is unlikely. Republicans in Congress are closely working with Trump to pass his agenda to expand energy production, increase border security and reduce taxes.
So it fell to the Democrats in the minority to find ways to try to stop it.
The leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, DN.Y. In the Monday message that the Democrats will announce the legislation to “prevent illegal access” to the treasury system “that contains secret and personal information related to social security and medical care, taxpayers, families and non -profit organizations, federal companies and contractors.” This measure can test ready The Republican Party to put a check on the Trump step.
Senator Ed Marki, D-Mass, called on the Democrats to “fightingAgainst Trump and Musk, and urged them to vote for all future candidates. The Senator Brian Shatz, de Hawaii, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, which supervises the United States Agency for International Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, threatened on Monday to put a “comprehensive comment” and All Foreign Ministry candidates in Trump stopped In response to his attacks on the United States Agency for International Development.
“The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development is illegal and makes us less safe. law”.
Senator Chris Konz, De Del, warned. And he is moderate, that if Trump is seriously injured by the US Agency for International Development and that if he succeeds in canceling it unilaterally, the future president can ignore the laws of credits.
“There is some disagreement over the United States Agency for International Development,” he said. “But the most important battle is whether the agreement on the credits that is a law will be respected and can be kept.”
Earlier, a group of Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate was prevented from entering the U.S. International Development Agency headquarters in the Ronald Reagan Building. Abroad, they showed support for the American Agency for International Development and pressed Musk for the agency’s cavity.
“The Government Supervision and Reform Committee, which represents thousands of federal workers.
Konoli said that the US Agency for International Development is “a matter of Congress to deal with – not the lack of an unaccounted billionaire named Elon Musk.”
