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Showing Original Post only (View all)This is a constitutional crisis [View all]
From Brendan Nyhan on BlueSky, reposted by Aaron Rupar: "This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of
government."
Brendan Nyhan is a Dartmouth political scientist.
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In theory, there are two other Constitutional branches of our government with that responsibility.
WheelWalker
Feb 2025
#7
The infection has reached all of the branches and extends from stem to twigs and seeds.
WheelWalker
Feb 2025
#13
It would be great to differentiate between a serious OP like this and the panicky breathless OPs
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2025
#35
MaddowBlog-With chaotic freeze gambit, the Trump White House shows its incompetence (again)
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 2025
#12
It's a crisis period. If anyone thinks a constitutional convention which
live love laugh
Feb 2025
#23
Where is the money coming from for the tax cut for yhe wealthy? Think like a statistician!
zstat
Feb 2025
#29