For a concrete example, the law Trump is abusing--where some smuggled fentanyl constitutes National Emergency that lets him invent a tax on Americans--states that any motion in the House to terminate the "emergency" must be given a vote within 15 days or less.
But last month, the Republican majority in the House voted (party-line) to declare that calendar-days for the rest of the year just... don't actually count as time passing, for no particular reason.