Classically, Congress held the power of the purse, able to both bar and require spending. This imposed a significant limit on Presidential power. With a bought court supporting him, Trump would have significant ability to essentially chart power as a king.
I wish we had a way to simulate a universe in which the GOP gets every single one of its policies implemented. Then let it run like a Sim City level. Just to see what a dumpster fire it would be.
Kansas, 2014
The reason states have more powers than the federal government is to test different methods of government and see what works best, then apply those lessons everywhere.
Turns out the red states consistently wind up much worse than the blue states. But they’re so brainwashed and poorly educated, they don’t learn from observing better outcomes elsewhere.
The Kansas Experiment. What a glorious clusterfuck that was.
S&P downgraded its credit rating first from AA+ to AA in August 2014, due to a budget that analysts described as structurally unbalanced,[52] and again in February 2017 from AA to AA−.[53]
It bugs me that credit ratings follow the eBay review policy of “AAAAA+++++ excellent service!!!”
Accurate.
Yep, always remember ‘Brownbackistan’.
Shudder I remember those dark days…I despise my state for letting that even come to pass. I remember voting for someone else instead of Brownback for this reason.
Read about the simulation games this researcher conducted with groups who score high on his authoritarian-type personality scale versus those who don’t: https://theauthoritarians.org
TLDR: When the world is run by right-wing authoritarians, it ends in famine and nuclear war.
Thank you. I downloaded the book!
Also: the last update on the site. R.i.p.
Check out Russia for something pretty close.
Ahh yes, Current Felon and Former President Donald Trump, well known for presiding over a fucking plague, wants to lower health spending. Astounding intellect.
Being president when a plague happens isn’t awful. Being president and responding to a plague like a Nurgle cultist, however, is.
If everyone would have just injected bleach then no one would have died from COVID.
Tbf, if your goal was to increase profits for the wealthy, it’s actually a brilliant idea.
Remember, every penny cut by a conservative is a penny kept by a conservative.
Taxes don’t go down with conservative program cuts. They keep the money they cut from programs. All of it is routed to their pockets. All of it.
Conservatives are cancer.
I have some friends from Middle School who I talk to daily, they were never the brightest bulbs in the warehouse. So of course Noe they’re Trumpers. I had the two of them read the entire Mandate for Leadership and discussed each point. They didn’t like it, but didn’t believe he’d do it if he won. Vote, you can’t change these people’s minds.
didn’t believe he’d do it if he won
This has been an ongoing problem — if a Republican announces plans to do something sufficiently evil, people won’t believe it because of how awful it is.
And once it happens it’s okay regardless of how negatively it affects them as long as it owns the libs.
“I will use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings,” Trump said in a plan posted last year. “This will be in the form of tax reductions for you. This will help quickly to stop inflation and slash the deficit.”
That pledge could provoke a dramatic constitutional showdown, with vast consequences for how the government operates. If he returns to office, these efforts are likely to turn typically arcane debates over “impoundment” authority — or the president’s right to stop certain spending programs — into a major political flash point, as he seeks to accomplish via edict what he cannot pass through Congress.
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Presidents since Thomas Jefferson have halted spending for programs approved by Congress. That typically has not proved controversial, because presidents have traditionally done so for routine managerial reasons or with specific statutory authorization, not to thwart the policy choices Congress made in appropriations laws.
But President Richard M. Nixon faced an uproar after he refused to spend money across a broad array of domestic programs, such as farm assistance and water grants. In 1969, working in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, the future Supreme Court chief justice William Rehnquist wrote a memo arguing that the president does not have unilateral authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds, while reserving the possibility of limited exceptions for foreign policy and other policy areas. Federal courts struck down Nixon’s impoundments as illegal, and Congress approved strict new limits on the power as part of post-Watergate government reforms in 1974.
During Trump’s first term, his allies grew increasingly frustrated with those limits.
Sounds like at least one oil company contributed to his request for a billion dollar bribe …
Convicted felon wants to continue to fuck the country up
Biden should buy some courts…
This fucker trying to speedrun us to extinction so he and his buddies can make a buck.
So the 2025 Enabling Act?
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