Posted on 11/01/2026 2:27:10 PM PST by Salman
Two days before the midterms, the people running the Trump White House quietly confirmed what the rest of us have been screaming about for two years. They don’t care who wins. They’ve already built the machine that runs without a legislature, and they’ve been building it since April.
That’s the Reuters story that dropped this morning, and it’s the one Ed Krassenstein was yelling about on X before most of you had coffee. A White House official and two other people familiar with the plans told Reuters that Stephen Miller, Russell Vought and the White House Counsel’s Office have spent seven months identifying every executive action Trump can take on immigration, tariffs, housing and federal spending without a single vote in Congress. Not a contingency plan. A governing plan. For a government that has just been told by the voters to stop.
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Get ready for 2 years of chaos. The wheels are coming off this bus then in ‘28 it’s going to get really bad.
Well, if the Dims do take the House, Trump will be forced to govern without Congress, as all they’ll do is impeach him over and over again.
Sure, just like when Trump supposedly attacked the driver of the presidential limousine Ito force the car to turn around..
I AM VERY CONFIDENT IT IS A REAL PEN-—NOT AUTO-PEN
“For a government that has just been told by the voters to stop.”
The kind pure propaganda BS one can expect the leftist scumbags at Reuters to stuff into a so called “news” story.
With the traitor Thune running the show the Senate will do nothing to help our President. I loathe our political class to no end. be a shame if a few of them had untimely accidents to put a fire under their sorry asses.
A pen, a phone... and Twitter! Oh, and ICE and DOJ and the Department of War!
Release the Hounds of Trump!!!!!
I believe that’s the perps name... “Unarmed Source” he’s been used as a source for years. Must be really old by now.
No source, just bull shit from notorious Trump hating Reuters.
Democrats built up a powerful Administrative State. Ow, President Trump has 2 years to sit and tear it apart.
Trump said he would veto everything that came to his desk. I’m not seeing a problem here.
November surprise. spit
The internet is great for splashing out bullshit that the gullible just swallow. Including the gullibles right here on FR.
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“It’s not a lie, if you believe it.” George Costanza
All right, why should I believe any of this? Especially when I am coming to believe that the most accurate source in the American media is The Babylon Bee.
What’s to leak? Veto nearly everything, continue with executive orders which go to courts. Without a funding package approved, many voters will finally blame Congress, or will they? Do novel things more like wiping out the anchor baby scheme in the Pacific islands.
What’s to leak? Veto nearly everything, continue with executive orders which go to courts. Without a funding package approved, many voters will finally blame Congress, or will they? Do novel things more like wiping out the anchor baby scheme in the Pacific islands.
Including the magic mn knon as Obama who proclaimed he has a pen & a phone, after he complained that the Repub,icans were preventing him in his duties as this nation's president..
Ah, what goes around comes around.
But this hasn't been worked on for months, it has always been an arrow to use in the quiver.
However, to answer your question, here is the answer:
While the U.S. Constitution does not explicitly mention or define "executive orders." There is no specific clause granting the President the power to issue them.
However, the authority is inferred from Article II, specifically:
The Vesting Clause (Section 1): "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." The Take Care Clause (Section 3): The President "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
These provisions are interpreted as granting the President inherent authority to issue directives to the executive branch. For an executive order to have the force of law, it must be grounded in either these constitutional powers or a specific delegation of authority from Congress.
Do you now understand? Learn you Constitution.
Nothing new is happening here including the reactions that always seem to think that it's being done without Constitutional Authority, wich is nt true. For the President must obey the laws, but he also cannot be prevented from ensuring that the laws are being carried out as well.
BREAKING: White House Staffers Leak Trump Team’s Secret Plan to Govern Without Congress When They Get Destroyed On Tuesday {Made up sh*t alert!}
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Regarding Trump governing without Congress, Trump supporters are reminded that the Constitution''s drafters appropriately required the peacetime, constitutionally very limited power (hint) Congress to meet only once a year, constitutional drafters debatably intending for peacetime presidents to do as Obama did and play much golf until duty calls.
Article I, Section 4, Clause 2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year [emphasis added], and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
After all, Congress's MAIN peacetime duties include approving artwork for new postage stamps. (We need a stamp showing POTUS delivering the mail.) But let's also include military readiness as one of Congress's annual meeting chores.
Reflecting on the main peacetime duties of POTUS, consider that the main points of the State of the Union address should be limited to justifying the price of postage stamps, also military readiness, including global situations, these issues actually the MAIN points of the fed's constitutionally very limited peacetime powers.
In fact, consider that Trump (and all peacetime presidents) should finish the constitutionally required but relatively short State of the Union (SOTU) speech about these issues with an official bye-bye to federal lawmakers going on recess until the next years' SOTU message.
In other words, forget the traditional, State of the Union word salads about unconstitutional, vote-buying federal spending and funding programs actually based on stolen state powers and likewise stolen state revenues uniquely associated with those powers.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States. (non-FR)
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution [all emphases added], nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824. (Abuse of 16A)
If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous (as for instance [all emphases added], for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles. — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen [all emphases added], under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country. —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature. —Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
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