(05-26-2025, 07:39 PM)copycat Wrote:

(05-26-2025, 06:37 PM)mikesez Wrote: They are the problem, but not for the reason you think.

Enlighten us please.

Since 2010 Congress has done little more than adjust budgets and tax rates.  The Presidents have been free to just issue executive orders reinterpreting old laws, and then they dare the courts to stop them.

If Congress would go in and update the old laws themselves, they would take back the power they are supposed to have. It would no longer be so important to make sure that the right guy is President and that he appoints the right guys to be chairs of the EPA, CDC, NRLB, FCC, the FEC, INS, etc etc. If Congress gave updated and clear direction to those agencies, Presidents would not feel so free to make things up.

The main example of a President just making things up through executive order is DACA, under Obama, of course. But Trump and Biden have given us examples also.

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