That's not just partisanship, like last time. Last time it was clear that he had committed very high crimes and misdemeanors. They stood by him purely as a matter of party over country.
In this case, they support what he's doing. Perhaps not in every detail; they'd be screaming about it if a Democrat did the same. But overall, he's doing what he promised in his campaign, and they were elected by those same voters. There's just nothing to impeach him about.
Perhaps at some point, courts will start declaring his actions illegal, and hold him in contempt for violating their orders. That might conceivably be sufficient violation of the rule of law to at least have a basis for impeachment. Which still won't happen, but at least they'd consider the idea before dismissing it.
Besides, it wouldn't help. The Vice-President has the same ideals and would do the exact same thing.
Well, that's more effective at budget-cutting than just firing employees. Employees are comparatively cheap; you have to fire thousands of people to save $1 billion. The real costs are in the programs that those employees were administering.
Pissing off red constituents and blue constituents at one go. That’s impressive even for an administration as uniquely bad as this.
Meanwhile Congress, the party ultimately responsible for this mess since they have the Constitutional power to stop it, does nothing
I'm not sure Congress does have the power to do prevent this. This program was created by executive order and can be removed by executive order.
They might be able to re-create it via legislation. Still, that's not going to happen fast even if Congress wanted to.
I think the power parent was referring to is to impeach the president
Oh. Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
That's not just partisanship, like last time. Last time it was clear that he had committed very high crimes and misdemeanors. They stood by him purely as a matter of party over country.
In this case, they support what he's doing. Perhaps not in every detail; they'd be screaming about it if a Democrat did the same. But overall, he's doing what he promised in his campaign, and they were elected by those same voters. There's just nothing to impeach him about.
Perhaps at some point, courts will start declaring his actions illegal, and hold him in contempt for violating their orders. That might conceivably be sufficient violation of the rule of law to at least have a basis for impeachment. Which still won't happen, but at least they'd consider the idea before dismissing it.
Besides, it wouldn't help. The Vice-President has the same ideals and would do the exact same thing.
I agree this would not happen.
Nevertheless it’s extremely sad how little republicans choose rule of law over own goal.
I disagree it wouldn’t help. It can assert congress power over executive which has potential of changing their actions.
But I’m hopeless.
Their action is not required until accountability is at the door.
As a foodbank volunteer, I'm not really looking forward to explaining why we have less food for people.
Well, that's more effective at budget-cutting than just firing employees. Employees are comparatively cheap; you have to fire thousands of people to save $1 billion. The real costs are in the programs that those employees were administering.
Too bad about the kids, though.
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“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared that feeding children and supporting local farmers are no longer ‘priorities,’”
Maybe they can make them honorary secret service agents.
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