True, congress has the power, but the 17th Amendment deprived congress of the will.
They don’t have the will, but I don’t think the 17th A has much to do with it. The whole GOP are just cowards. After all they won’t even defund anything for fear Obama will “shut down the government” and they will be blamed for it and lose their majority, despite just the opposite happening in 2014. Frankly they don’t deserve to be a majority, and they won’t be for long.