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Mike Nolan's avatar

Hi Gabe. Maybe the Senate Democrats could get a personal promise from four Republicans not to vote for rescissions. Then maybe a budget deal could be brokered. What do you think?

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Nana Booboo's avatar

Sounds like a plan

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Judy Parrish's avatar

Oh....my.....goodness. Is this any way to run a country? Between my recent (much-belated) reading of PJ O'Rourke's very scary book, Parliament of Whores, and your close reading of government shenanigans, I am stunned that this country functions at all.

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David Hopper's avatar

I’m not sure this country is currently functioning. At least not as it was intended to.

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Judy Parrish's avatar

Hey Gabe--Your comment about an inartfully written bill struck me. It seems I hear this a lot. The president (any president, not just Trump) and Congress seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to find loopholes in laws. Sometimes a law written decades ago cannot have anticipated new developments, but it seems like an awful lot were just written rather carelessly without forethought of how important the actual wording can be. Couple that with the observation that the laws are actually written by Congressional aides and most Congressional aides are extremely young, barely out of college, and I wonder if the problem of inartfully written laws is one worth examining.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

Let’s get the pedo’s locked up. Release the files. Trump-Picked Advisor Defends Israeli Official in Las Vegas Child Sex Sting

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/trump-picked-advisor-defends-israeli

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Michael Bower's avatar

I feel we need a better way to voice citizen desires for spending "our" money...Have each tax return include a pie chart of all discretionary funding items and let each citizen adjust the pieces of pie however they want...include an "other" category with "comments"...send it in (with your return$$$) - then broadly publicize the results (using all these new analytic graphing tools and pervasive social media). Make it non-binding, but widely acknowledged. Report on each congressman's votes compared to the citizen's preferences. Add a spoonful of sugar, stir and sit back and wait for the mid-terms:-)

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Paulie's avatar

So interesting! Great article, Gabe! I am all about the intention of something and I hope that Pocket Rescission thing gets ruled unconstitutional. That is one ridiculous loophole. At the very least the Court should require the outcome to be produced within the agreed 45 days (regardless of date) and if not approved then the President must then spend that money as originally directed by Congress albeit late. But I suspect that could muddy the waters more going forward with a new Presidential function to keep tabs of monies they have to spend late versus what is approved for the next year.

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Seymour Krout's avatar

Are the fund for the court system subject to recission?

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Images of Broken Light's avatar

With a convicted criminal like Trump running the country, we no longer really have a use for laws anyway. He just does whatever he wants. It's not as if he'll suffer any consequences.

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chrisattack's avatar

Another every day can be like Christmas article. Thank you.

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menehune's avatar

ALOHA......

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Patty S.'s avatar

Oh, my!😮

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A.Gnosticthefirst's avatar

Jeez, how complicated! In Canada if the budget fails to get the confidence of Parliament, the government falls and an election could be held. The president should have no say in the spending outlined in a bill that has passed Congress. None.

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Rosemary Ford's avatar

“pocket rescissions are best understood as an unfortunate loophole in the ICA, which Congress probably should have closed by now but has not.” Wallach article

So, the Congress has had 51 years to correct this? Democracy in action?

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Richard P Handler's avatar

Gabe, what power do the federal courts have when the executive branch willfully disobeys court orders, banks on endless appeals and challenges? What value does a contempt ruling hold when there is no penalty for willful disregard?

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Finn Frock's avatar

Schumer. Should not be making decisions for the dem party. We are at war! The enemy is Trumplican dipshits. Stop working together, and turn back. Get in power and stay there.

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Austin Spencer's avatar

Forget the point of having a minority party; Trump is daring everyone to tell what the point of having a Congress is when he can rule unilaterally on all budget decisions. This is tantamount to declaring him an absolute monarch.

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