The other republican who sometimes thwarts President Trump – and still votes for things that advance his program, such as radical Medicaid cuts in the “big, beautiful” Trump bill this summer – slams the White House for having retained federal expenses without law authorized by the Congress.
In a tweet, senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who said previously that she thought that the so-called “pocket attributions” are illegal, the authority reminded that the authority to determine federal expenses lies in the congress. She also suggested that sending another cancellation request so close to the end of the exercise would ruin any progression of bipartite credits which has already been made. Here is his entire statement:
I strongly oppose the illegal attempt at the management and budget office to continue a pocket termination of almost $ 5 billion. Congress alone assumes the constitutional responsibility for the financing of our government, and any effort to recover resources outside the credits process undermines this responsibility.
The fact is that advancing the bills of final credits and avoiding a government closure will require a lot of hard work and collaboration when the congress resumes the session next week. These unilateral actions of the OMB only threaten the right bipartite work that has been done in a committee and on the ground, and risks throwing the whole process in chaos.
As the TPM reported on Friday, Trump’s White House finally explained its threat of trying to use pocket cancellations as an escape through which it can unilaterally reduce the federal expenses which it does not like without the approval of the congress. The Elon Musk’s government ministry opened the way to such a confrontation when it started to freeze, cancel or reduce the federal spending that Congress had affected earlier this year. Trump’s White House then tried to legitimize part of this federal constitutional back program by sending Doges cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting in the form of a request for cancellation earlier in summer.
While Murkowski and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) both spoke against this July vote to reduce the billions of expenses that Congress had already authorized, the Republicans were able to pass the package through Chambers of Congress without Democrats. The two were the only Republican senators to vote against the legislation, which only needed 50 votes to succeed.
The director of the White House and Budget Management Office, Russ Vought, has been threatening for some time that he can try to legitimize more Doge’s unleashing via a pocket termination request – a decision that the Congress Budget Office declared several times. As my colleague John Light explained it on the weekend on Saturday, this decision represents an escalation of the seizure of the power of Trump’s White House on the authority of the Congress to appropriate federal spending because the Trump administration now claims the power to reduce expenses, whether the congress approves it or not.
When a request for cancellation is sent to the White House congress, it automatically freezes expenses for 45 days and the White House must automatically start the money again if the congress does not approve of the termination. In this case, there are only a few weeks left, so the funds will not have passed, regardless of what the congress does. Collins referred to the attempt upside down to seize the power of the Congress bag in its declaration calling for cancellation of $ 4.9 billion in Trump’s white house on Friday on Friday.
“Any effort to cancel the funds assigned without approval of the congress is a clear violation of the law,” said Collins.
As Murkowski noted it in his Tuesday declaration, there is a chance that this last power of the White House can explode all the bipartite expenditure negotiations which have been underway for some time. The Democrats hoped to obtain certain insurance of the Republicans in exchange for votes which they grant to help keep the government open. Some Democrats argued that they wanted radical Medicaid cups that the Republicans adopted this summer repealed in exchange for their votes. Other Democrats have urged their colleagues to refuse to help Republicans keep the government open without ensuring that the executive power will pass funding as appropriate.
Friday may have changed the progress of the Republicans.
“Trump is rooted for a closure,” tweeted Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Friday. “He knows that he has created a huge problem because now any budgetary agreement with the Republicans is not worth the document on which it is written. It does not even pretend to follow the law.”
Johnson tries to run any stop in the direction of DEMS
While the Congress returns to town after its long recess in August this week, the collision points of the fight against coming expenses are starting to take shape. The president of the room, Mike Johnson (R-La), puts himself forward in his attempt to blame the Democrats if the government stops when the exercise will end at the end of the month, despite the fact that his party has the majority in both chambers and that if the Republicans will finally decide to advance it with another continuous resolution in the short term, it will be members of his conference which will probably be the least cooperative. If the congress is able to adopt real bills of credits, they will have to erase the filibusier from 60 votes in the Senate, which means that the Republicans will have to negotiate with the Democrats and probably offer concessions around the taking of legislative power in Trump, to obtain their support.
“The ball will be in their corner,” said Johnson about Democrats.
More, for the politician:
GOP leaders cannot afford to lose only a handful of members on their side of the aisle and to adopt legislation without the help of the Democrats. When asked if the Republicans would accept the Democrats’ requests to reduce discounts for health care programs contained in the Megabill GOP as a means of bringing Democrats to the table, Johnson said: “No”.
Trump says he’s not dead
President Trump was forced to get involved with conspiracy theories that swirl social media during the long weekend of vacation he was dead.
During a press briefing on Tuesday, he called conspiracy theories – which were rooted in speculation on his health in the middle of many unexplained deadly guys – “false news” before complaining of former president Joe Biden and arguing that he had a very “active” weekend which involved publishing “a certain number of truths, so I think that I think poignant »on the internet.
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