[tasty_freeze]

Trump won by a very small margin, 1.5%, and didn't even get 50% of the popular vote. It isn't a "landslide" or "mandate" no matter how many times they claim it. Yes, Trump won, but that isn't grounds for ignoring the constitution. There is a separation of powers and Trump can't delegate powers which aren't his to Musk to delegate to technoboys.

[klipt]

Unfortunately the only leverage Congress has to stop Executive overreach is impeachment.

If they refuse to impeach, then they are tacitly handing the Executive ever more power, essentially moving us from a republic to an elected dictatorship.

And given that the GOP has a majority, no matter how slim, it seems very unlikely they will impeach.

[HPsquared]

The executive branch systematically dismantling itself doesn't sound like "ever more power".

[saulpw]

It is if they are dismantling the pieces for their own benefit. Removing power from the institution and giving it to themselves.

[klipt]

If Congress already passed a law to regulate food so customers don't get poisoned.

And the president can say "I'm gonna ignore that and dismantle the agency Congress set up to do it"

What power does Congress have anymore?

[SV_BubbleTime]

Is that honestly what is happening though? Or is that an exaggeration and presumption to try and make your point?

Fact, no one can show that USAID’s more curious and controversial grants served American interests.

[briandear]

312 to 226 isn’t a “small margin.”

You don’t measure a baseball game by number of hits or strike outs, but by the number of runs scored. The popular vote is literally irrelevant.

[tzs]

The assertion was about what the population supports. For that question it is the popular vote that matters, not the electoral college vote.