Posted on 02/12/2025 12:08:49 PM PST by Jacquerie
The Trump Team fooled everybody, including me. Surely, we all thought, it would take Trump’s anti-bureaucrats some time to clear the judicial logjam. But all of us were wrong.
It was a simultaneous coordinated assault, deployed with consummate skill in a single afternoon. It was all happening at once. We will start with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his incredible comments.
The Speaker explained, “There’s a presupposition in America that the commander-in-chief is going to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars.” Johnson also pointed out that DOGE workers were better able to make decisions on government funding than members of Congress, since “the agencies have hidden some of this from us.”
"We have a $36 trillion dollar federal debt. We have got to get ahold of these things. You’re going to see it reflected in the reconciliation package that comes forward, you’re going to see it reflected in the appropriations as we go forward, and you’re going to see it in these efforts to cut waste, fraud, and abuse."
By shifting the battlefield to a budget reconciliation bill, Trump has neutralized the courts as any significant factor. Unlike executive actions, a budget bill passed through reconciliation is almost untouchable by judicial review. The only real challenges are procedural, which is a Senate issue, not a judicial one.
The Left thought they had Trump boxed in with lawsuits.
Trump tricked them all. The same activist judges siding against him using Congress as an excuse, must now twist into legal pretzels somehow arguing that neither Congress nor the Executive hold the power of the purse, which is even less constitutionally plausible. In other words, Trump tricked the judges into committing to a Congressional-powers argument, which becomes moot when Congress does it.
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READ Childer's column!
very good post
Swamp Apocalypse is a great name for a band!
Excellent observation.
Thank you!!
Are we assuming that Congress has the courage to do their job? We haven’t seen that for 225 years.
Thank You for posting this.
I am Reading, Laughing, and Loving It.
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Congress does not need courage.
They just need to kiss the President’s ring and say “yes sir”.
Hopefully they can manage that.
Excellent! Thank you for posting!
This is very interesting.
BTTT
Awesome post!
“Coffee and Covid”?!?
Childers is quite the optimist. There are many RINOs in Congress. Many with sticky fingers, or simply nevertrumpers. Even if Pres. Trump knows exactly who the crooks are and the measure of their loot, it’s a Menendez level event to convict them, or even cause them to blush. Meanwhile, across the aisle, ‘rats will pressure those RINOs too. As will the voters, soon enough.
In all, it’s a bad time to be a RINO but they are not without all potential to make things difficult for the President and his team.
That was satisfying. But would have been a lot better if there were criminal charges and not just lawsuits.
I’m gonna shorten it to Swampocalypse.
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