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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is just crazy. Why is congress even bothering with appropriations when Trump can just decide later on what gets paid for.
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USAID is under the executive branch. President hs  right to review spending and control departments and agencies. That's just the way it is. Some Article 3 judge isn't going to get in the way of a Unitary Executive. Get used to that fact.[/quote]

Unitary Executive basically means that congress and the courts are useless. Why would you support this idea? Checks and balances prevent abuses of power regardless of the political leanings of a president. Do you really want someone like AOC to become president with Unitary Executive branch power? If you don't then the current president should not have this power either. This crackpot legal theory is incredibly dangerous and no one should have absolute control over the government.[/quote]

Unitary executive means the opposite. It means that the branches are coequal because they are vested with their respective powers.

But in the world we live in today where legislative and judicial powers exists within the executive branch, well, yeah, why can’t POTUS exercise those legislative and judicial powers via the Department of Government Efficiency?

I get it. I really do. In an ideal world Congress makes the laws, the executive executes the laws and the judicial branch does the judging. But starting with FDR we have chosen to allow the executive branch to wield quasi legislative and judicial powers.

That’s all DOGE is doing. This is a continuation of New Deal era inventions in our government. [/quote]

Not sure if serious?[/quote]

Dead serious. If we can have legislative and judicial powers residing in the executive branch (via the regulatory agencies, for example) then DOGE can also exercise legislative and judicial powers.

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[b]Yeah, there are some very serious conservatives that I follow online who also authoritatively state nonsense like this.[/b]  They ignore legislative history in favor of their own ideas and call themselves rational rather than partisan.

Once upon a time, conservative did not mean "making stuff up".  That time is no more.[/quote]

Do you have links to an attempt at a well-reasoned defense of this?

I keep coming back to THE LAW. So much of this is statutorily or administratively illegal, and ultimately the executive is going to have to ignore court orders to destroy the government.

How do you defend that? [/quote]

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”[/quote]

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