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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

Yes . . .I heard suits against the freeze in grant funding but not about the aid halts, but that is just as illegal; statutes passed by Congress and signed by the President entail those funds need to be spent as directed.

A President doesn't just get to halt contractual agreements to review and then only spend the money if he agrees with it. Doing so means not only any congressional spending deal is worth nothing, but any financial agreement the U.S. signs with an entity isn't worth the paper its printed on either, because we are not a trustworthy partner. It destabilizes everything.

I mean, are Republicans really thinking this through? With this precedent, a hypothetical future POTUS AOC could pass a bipartisan funding deal, and then just axe huge components of the defense spending, as well as any funding directed to the oil/gas industry, because it doesn't align "with the goals of her administration." Do they really want to go down that road??

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michaelflutist's avatar

Yes, because they are in power. They don't have any principles and fight anything any Democrat does. You already know that.

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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

I mean, the more establishment ones at least try to play some prevent defense though re: institutional norms. It's why they haven't killed the filibuster, because come the next D trifecta with a 51 seat Dem Senate majority, Dems would pass the wishlist to Santa and add the asks for the Easter Bunny for dessert.

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Henrik's avatar

The “vote no, hope yes” coward caucus once again expects Ds to bail them out from the lunacy of their own base, this time via lawsuits and TROs

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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

I mean, yes that was my first thought-they'll pray the courts do their job for them. But what if he defies the courts (as I expect is likely) . . . then what?

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Henrik's avatar

Then we’re over the Rubicon. My suspicion is that the bulk of the GOP (wrongly) thinks it won’t come to that, especially since a lot of them are cozy with FedSoc

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