Oh brilliant, another senior government official thinks that Trump should be king

Russ Vought, the architect / ghoul for the 2025 project who now directs the management and budget office, is almost sure that When the Americans voted For Donald Trump, they enthusiastically approved that Trump alone can decide on how taxpayers’ money is spent. These batteries on the separation of powers, but it is also a comic significance to say that the people who pulled Trump’s lever gave him infinite power.

Thursday, at a meeting of the breakfast of the Christian sciences, Vought explained his vision of the way the government should work on journalists. First, bipartite must leave, because “literally no one” has run and won “on the agenda of a bipartisan credits process”.

Buddy, no one ran there because everyone understands that the budgetary process is, out of necessity, bipartite. This is all this where Congress defines expenses and bills need 60 votes to pass. But by Vought, he does not even need to speak to the Democrats of Congress because he will “change the paradigm” of budgeting.

In one way or another, eliminating democrats from the budgeting process will make things better, According to Vought: “I actually think that over time, if we have a more partisan credits process – for a time – it will lead to more bipartite.” Yes, this is certainly what things work.

Vought reluctantly recognized That the congress has the power of the handbag, but it has a very … unique understanding of that: “It is one of the most constitutional fundamental principles, but this power of the bag does not mean – it is a ceiling. It’s not a floor. ”

Wait, what? This word salad looks a lot like Vought thinks that congress can adopt a budget, but Trump can then cut what he wants. In fact, yes, it’s precisely this Vought means: “This is not the concept that you must spend each last dollar.” If Trump can unilaterally refuse to spend money, the Congress has appropriated, the Congress no longer controls the power to spend, the end.

Vought’s actions comply with Trump’s opinion that the Americans have elected it to be a kingAnd by eliting, accepted everything he wants to do. It is also in accordance with the Trump’s executive decree of Trump, which Essentially said This omb can tell the agencies what to do, and they only have to do it.

Let Trump unilaterally reduce expenses is actually restoration The constitutional balance, by Vought, because this means that the executive power is “not in the process of understanding a legislative branch of its own authorities and powers”.

Of course, except the clear language of Article I, Section 8 From the Constitution could not be clearer on the fact that the power of expenditure is found: “Congress will have the power to rest and collect taxes, rights, taxes, paying debts and providing common defense and general well-being of the United States.”

Vought does not care about your annoying thoughts on the Constitution. It’s a Christian nationalist which marries a theory of “radical constitutionalism”. This theory is indeed radical, because it essentially forces you to throw the whole constitution and to say that the president is a king and Congress cannot Place the limits on him.

The conviction of the administration that all power rests with Trump was, unfortunately, supported by The Supreme Court and the Congress. Since these two branches have abdicated their duties to act as control and balance on the executive power, there is no one to prevent Vought from implementing its vision, a world where the congress does not matter and Trump controls everything.

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