(08-22-2020, 01:29 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(08-22-2020, 01:15 PM)mikesez Wrote: The crimes do not appear to be tied to the administration's new policies, with the possible exception of how they approach Russia and Russia's oligarchs.
But that Russia stuff probably doesn't affect our daily lives.
The thing is, the Trump administration did not really introduce many new policies that stuck. DACA is still with us. Obamacare is still with us. There is no wall. We haven't started any new wars. We haven't ended the wars we have. one of the reasons that the Democrats in Congress are expending so much effort with investigations, is that they know any legislative action they try will be vetoed, meanwhile, the Republicans are not really trying any legislative action either. even when they had both houses of Congress, all they could pass was a tax cut.

That's pure conjecture. Trump has stated he would work with Congress but the dems have forced the House into stasis.  The problems doesn't lie entirely with the left, but since they hold the majority and their leaders have expressed outright contempt for Trump, they bear the burden.

Republicans still control the Senate. 
The house has passed a respectable quantity of stuff actually, at least when they first came to power, but what's supposed to happen is that the Senate is supposed to bring up a bill on the same topic, and then the two houses are supposed to reconcile the differences between the two.
But that never happened and now the house seems to have given up on legislating. The Senate starting in 2019 never did their job in the first place, from what I can tell.

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