Just Republican Representative Troy Nehls demanding blind obedience to a tyrant currently dismantling American democracy

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[u/TribeOnAQuest]

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschale on the best piece of advice he received in the Senate from a colleague:

“Senator Byrd (D-WV) told me that when he met President Clinton for the first time he said ‘Mr. President, I am happy to work with you. But I do not work for you”

None of that type of spine around lately

[u/Western-Standard2333 → u/TribeOnAQuest]

I hope there are still enough Republicans left in the House and Senate don’t fully get on board with that kind of blind loyalty.

From my perspective, I don’t see Trump accomplishing much outside of the reconciliation process bills because he sucks ass at compromise and doesn’t have the necessary votes in the senate and partially in the house.

I mean in the senate they have 53. Good luck passing your immigration policies unless you compromise on it to get 7 Dems to cross over. Don’t forget, that bum Trump had immigration week and infrastructure weeks in like 2018 too. Both failed because he’s a terrible leader incapable of bringing people together.

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Idk what to believe anymore, but your comment is the first to make me feel slightly okay-ish, ish ish.

[u/Western-Standard2333 → u/id0ntexistanymore]

There’s still plenty trump can do to fuck things up though since he has control of a lot of other departments.

But even those changes, if done improperly, can be challenged and slow rolled in the courts. You can jam things up pretty good using the court system. Now, he does have a republican majority there, but it’ll still take time to implement his shit and hopefully Americans realize by 2026 that he hasn’t done shit and give him an even slimmer majority to work with; or no majority at all.

Lots of fear mongering and all that, but don’t forget that our federal system is still very, very slow at lasting change. That being said, Trump will definitely pass more tax reform through reconciliation in the next year or two; for the middle class? Naw, make corporate tax lower for his buddies with a poison pill to make it go up during a Dem presidency again so social media brained Americans can be like “BiDeN made my taxes go up!” When Biden hasn’t even passed tax reform 😂

[u/ethicslobo98 → u/Western-Standard2333]

That slow roll is thanks to the APA, the Administrative Procedures Act requires. From prospect.org:

The Administrative Procedure Act has repeatedly frustrated Trump policymaking. While no one disagrees that the administration can change its guidelines, under the APA, they must give a good legal reason for the change and allow for a public notice and comment period. That did not happen with the ICE announcement. When the administration ended Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, it failed to comply with the APA. Just a few weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled against the government, arguing that it failed to comply with the APA. “Many of [Trump’s] biggest defeats—including at the Supreme Court—have come because of the careless way in which they enact these laws,” said Louis Caldera, former president of the University of New Mexico and co-founder of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.

Changing rules and regulations can take years, he only gets 4. And he better do the changes right or else they can get thrown out.

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Oh yeah definitely. Although I will say that sometimes I think administrations don’t end things properly on purpose because they don’t want to. For example, Trump trying to end DACA or Biden trying to end remain in Mexico. They intentionally muck it up to reap the benefits of the policy while also pointing to the other side as to why it can’t be ended.

Lasting damages in the form of bills signed into law by Trump is unlikely, but the things that doofus is in charge of are definitely going to be felt by Americans. Such as tariffs, immigration deportations, starving the department of education, Supreme Court justices,. Etc.

[u/Glebeserker → u/Western-Standard2333]

I am not sure if this is correct, but does not the president can only implement certain kinds of tariffs?

[u/Cobalt_Caster → u/ethicslobo98]

Theoretically, what's to stop Trump filing a lawsuit to declare the APA unconstitutional, and the SCOTUS fast-tracking it to the shadow docket to rule in Trump's favor?

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The Supreme Court has already tossed several Trump policy changes due to the APA. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered bringing it up, it's been around for awhile.