[rlmorel]

We are no longer a constitutional republic, ruled by laws.

Legislation is supposed to originate in the House. It now originates in the Executive branch, most often by decree.

We now live in a full tyranny, at the mercy of these beasts. Those ostensibly on “our” side are largely placated with money and privilege.

Look at what Trump went thorough trying to build the Border Wall. He had to scrape for every single cent of it, which he should NOT have had to do. That effort should have come from the House, had the money allocated in a budget, and proceeded as legal legislation. But since 1997 (IIRC) there has not been an annual budget for the next year passed prior to the end of the current budget year.

Now, we have continuing resolutions, “accounting errors” in the Pentagon to the tune of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars which are scooped up and sent directly to Ukraine without any legislative process.

This is Taxation Without Representation.

[Ge0ffrey]

A good journalist would have raised those questions.

[hanamizu]

“Legislation is supposed to originate in the House...”

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Just a nit-pick here. Legislation can originate in either house, except for bills that raise revenue which must originate in the House of Representatives. However our betters have figured out a way around this, the Senate takes a bill passed by the House, strips it of its content, substitutes a spending bill and sends the ‘amended’ bill back to the House for reconciliation.