Home Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned Tuesday that he agreed “wholeheartedly” that the Trump administration might make sweeping cuts to federal spending with out the approval of Congress, taking a place at odds with the Structure’s separation of powers that undercuts his personal department of presidency.
“I’ve been asked so many times, ‘Aren’t you uncomfortable with this?’ No, I’m not,” Mr. Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, informed reporters on the Capitol, including: “There’s a presupposition in America that the commander in chief is going to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars.”
The Trump administration’s efforts to withhold congressionally appropriated funds has posed a direct problem to the Structure, which provides Congress the only real the ability to determine what packages deserve federal cash and the way a lot. It’s the govt department’s job to spend that cash in step with Congress’s instructions.
That primary precept has underpinned a flurry of lawsuits filed in opposition to the Trump administration in current days by states, worker unions and different teams that had been adversely affected by President Trump’s sweeping freeze on overseas help, grants, loans and different types of federal help. A collection of federal judges have blocked components of these spending freezes with non permanent restraining orders whereas the circumstances are argued.
Over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance sounded off on social media concerning the circumstances, arguing that the judges’ interventions had been illegitimate.
“Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” Mr. Vance wrote on X.
Beneath the Structure’s separation of powers, courts assessment actions by the chief and legislative branches to ensure they’re constitutional.
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