It’s About Time Congress Grew Some Stones! Will the Senate Stand Firm This Time?

Why did it take so long? So much waffling around and wringing of hands and doing what Trump wants, no matter how badly it messes up your state. Avoid town halls because your constituents are mad at you, and rightfully so! Wake up and smell the shizzle because it’s time to get out of it! From AlterNet:

The New York Times reported Wednesday that the Republican-controlled Senate Appropriations Committee is now making moves to prevent the Trump administration from freezing the disbursement of federal money that Congress includes in spending bills. Committee chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) said that in the past, agency heads from both Democratic and Republican administrations have adhered to the committee’s guidance on how money should be spent, before Trump’s second term.

Power of the purse, baby! How did you forget that? If they’re that afraid of Trump, they could get voted out anyway at midterms. So why not make it for a good reason? (Looking at you, Joni Ernst!) Congress needs to do what they are *supposed* to do and put the damn reins on Trump. He’s had freedom to do what *he* wants for far too much time. Hobble him, and we can work on getting America back, not Trump-imerica. Why did it take so long?

Look at what he’s done to schools, law firms, and medical research. This is crap. We *need* those. I don’t like to say we need law firms, but they’ve been getting hit hard. Look at the schools that gave in to Trump and are now worse off. Look at the research making such headway with mRNA, and we have probably lost that, too! America is turning dark. Dark and ugly. Power of the purse!

“[I]n this administration, it is clear that we need to move far more of that language on how the money should be spent into the bills themselves,” Susan said. “I believe members of Congress who know their districts and states should decide how taxpayer dollars get spent — not faceless political appointees, and not any president who wrongly believes they hold the power of the purse instead of Congress,” Appropriations Committee ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) told the Times. As Murray noted, Congress’s power over federal spending is explicitly spelled in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

Block Trump. Block him and don’t give in. Get the control back. It’s past time to do that. This belongs to *Congress*. Stop being afraid and do your damn jobs. Think about the *people*, not one dementia-ridden old man. He’s just ONE MAN. He doesn’t want the presidential job any more than we want him to have it. Send him off to play golf. Do your DAMN JOBS. If Governor Newsom can do it, then by god, they can too.

Senate Republicans have previously come out against Vought and the Trump administration’s withholding of Congressionally appropriated money for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 14 Republicans who mostly represent deep-red states sent the administration a letter last month urging the OMB to not interfere with billions of dollars dedicated to scientific research, including into cures for deadly diseases.

Letters don’t do any good. They just beg and tell the person they’re sent to you what one’s plans are. Letters are worthless, a sop to one’s pride. Actions are what count. So get to it and act!

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