Posted on 03/13/2025 8:43:45 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe
Went to Grok and posted this query: What are the U.S. president's additional powers under (1) a government budget shutdown, as opposed to (2) Congress being declared in recess?
Groke gave me a very detailed answer. Not posting the results here, as they would be harder to read without the formatting. But it's interesting. I included the link in case you want to check it for yourself.
Link has label “self” instead of the name of the link - sorry. But the clickthrough is valid.
From 2018...
It’s not necessary. He’s getting his choices through. We did this “dissertation” a couple months ago. Waste of time.
I get about a half-dozen responses with citations where they were found. The formatting is awkward. All of the responses say similar things.
"Recess appointments let the president fill vacancies without Senate approval, lasting until the end of the next session."
"During a shutdown, the president doesn't gain extra powers; it's all about managing with limited funds."
This seems like the crazy fight to me. If you get all Republicans voting for the CR and the government shuts down then Trump will just continue to cut the government and no one can take him to court. Sorry, we have no money, the government is shutdown. He can just start deeming things not critical and fire people. To me, this makes it way easier to shrink the size of government and the answer to all those crying on CNN is, well, fund the government and we wouldn’t be doing this. It seems like Trump gets more power in a shutdown. He can determine that national parks are critical but the DOE isn’t.
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