'January's going to be a big month': GOP lawmakers look to reclaim power from Trump

[J_William_Ryan]

15. "...the growing power of the executive branch..."

And Republicans are solely to blame.

For decades Republicans have advocated for unitary executive dogma, an all-powerful president ruling by fiat, executive orders rather than legislative consensus, an autocrat above the law subject to neither Congress nor the courts.

Republicans are in no position to whine about the ever-increasing power of the executive branch they themselves facilitate.