Our government is not functioning as designed by our founding fathers. In ways, it has already been taken over by an authoritarian leader. The only question left is will that be allowed to continue and this will be the downfall of our republic or will we move back toward the ideals of our founding fathers when they formed this republic.
Sure, that sounds hyperbolic, but look at all the things have happened this year that only a few years ago every single one of us would say would never happen. Well, there are 3 more years.
WASHINGTON—When the news broke that the Kennedy Center would be renamed to include President Trump, it came as a surprise to the Senate’s Republican leader, John Thune of South Dakota—even though Thune is an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board.
“Ah, I just heard about it,” Thune said in an interview on Fox News Channel. An act of Congress in 1964 had named the performing arts center to memorialize the slain John F. Kennedy. Thune concluded that Congress would “take a look at it for sure and…see where that goes.”
But by the next day, the Kennedy Center had already added Trump’s name to the building’s facade.
It was just the latest example of how the 119th Congress has mostly been relegated to a sidekick role, deferring to Trump’s muscular executive branch as it moves at a breakneck pace to execute the president’s agenda—imposing tariffs, slashing the federal workforce and carrying out military strikes in the Caribbean.
Bolder in his second term, Trump increasingly acts unilaterally to bypass or pre-empt the ponderous legislative process on Capitol Hill. He signed 225 executive orders this year, compared with 61 laws passed by Congress. That is five more executive orders than he signed during all four years of his first term, and more than any other president has signed in the first year of a term since Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941. Back in 2017, Trump signed 55 executive orders and 96 laws.
Sure, that sounds hyperbolic, but look at all the things have happened this year that only a few years ago every single one of us would say would never happen. Well, there are 3 more years.
WASHINGTON—When the news broke that the Kennedy Center would be renamed to include President Trump, it came as a surprise to the Senate’s Republican leader, John Thune of South Dakota—even though Thune is an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board.
“Ah, I just heard about it,” Thune said in an interview on Fox News Channel. An act of Congress in 1964 had named the performing arts center to memorialize the slain John F. Kennedy. Thune concluded that Congress would “take a look at it for sure and…see where that goes.”
But by the next day, the Kennedy Center had already added Trump’s name to the building’s facade.
It was just the latest example of how the 119th Congress has mostly been relegated to a sidekick role, deferring to Trump’s muscular executive branch as it moves at a breakneck pace to execute the president’s agenda—imposing tariffs, slashing the federal workforce and carrying out military strikes in the Caribbean.
Bolder in his second term, Trump increasingly acts unilaterally to bypass or pre-empt the ponderous legislative process on Capitol Hill. He signed 225 executive orders this year, compared with 61 laws passed by Congress. That is five more executive orders than he signed during all four years of his first term, and more than any other president has signed in the first year of a term since Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941. Back in 2017, Trump signed 55 executive orders and 96 laws.
