Washington (AP) – “Mr. President, this is the hammer with which the” large, pretty bill “was issued, said House Johnson’s spokesman in a signing of a white house on July 4.
“I want you to have it,” he said.
The hammer presented the enthusiastic president Donald Trump, who immediately tested him outdoors outdoors with a few quick blows.
The moment left an unforgettable brand on a historical day. The gesture reflected a classic honor, from a guide on the other, a milestone of the primary legislation of the Republican Party. The pictures also underlined a symbolic transfer of political power, from Capitol Hill to the White House, since a conformer congress is increasingly releasing its privilege on the presidency.
The congress gives Trump what he wants
Since Trump’s return to the White House in January and especially in the past few weeks, the Republicans who control the house and the Senate have shown an unusual willingness to give the president of her party what he wants, regardless of the potential risk for herself, their voters and their congress itself.
The Republicans ran to spend the gigantic package of tax breaks and spending cuts on Trump’s desk until his independence day. The senators had confirmed almost all nominees of Trump’s outsider cabinets despite the sedate reservations to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, Pete Hegseth as Pentagon boss and others as health secretary. House Republicans persecuted Trump’s interest in investigating his perceived enemies, including the investigation by the Democratic President Joe Bidensuse of the car.
At the same time, the congress hit the brakes in one of his own priorities, which imposed Russia against the war against Ukraine after Trump announced that he had negotiated President Vladimir Putin for 50 days on a peace agreement and destroyed hopes for an end to the conflict.
Last week the congress was re -tested and, at Trump’s application for lifting around 9 billion US dollars, which the legislators had approved, but wanted to eliminate the administration, including money for public broadcasting and overseas aid. It was a sporadic request from the President, a challenge for the authority of the legislative of the wallet, which has not been used for decades.
The pressure on the Republicans demands its toll
“We are legislators. We should be legally,” said a defiant senator Lisa Murkowksi, R-Alaska, when she refused to support the demand of the White House, to lift money for national public radio and others.
“What we get now is a direction from the White House and is said:” This is a priority. We want you to do it. We will be back with you with another round, “she said.” I don’t accept that. “
The congress, the government branch, the founding fathers who come first in the constitution is at a familiar intersection. During the first Trump government, the Republicans, who were scared by Trump’s enraged disapprovations, would keep their criticism private. Those who spoke among other things in the house and Mitt Romney from Utah in the Senate – Liz Cheney von Wyoming.
A former GOP Senator, Jeff Flake from Arizona, who announced in Trump’s first term in Trump in 2017 that he would not strive for a re -election next year, begs the Republicans to find a better way.
“The fever is still not broken,” he recently wrote in the New York Times. “In today’s Republican Party, the voting of their conscience essentially disqualifies.”
Find a “normal” congress
But this time the halls of the congress are fulfilled with many Republicans who came up with Trump’s “Make America great” movement at the political age and owe the president their promotion. Many emulate their brand and style when they form their own forms.
A up-to-date generation of GOP leaders, Johnson in the house and the majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, has brought Trump closer. They apply the power of the presidency in a gigantic and diminutive way – to convey brokerage transactions, and even encourage the stubborn legislators to reconcile themselves.
Johnson, R-La. But shortly before that, the speaker is dependent on Trump to stay on the right track. When the Republicans hit a dead end of the cryptocurrency laws, a Trump priority, it was the president who met on Tuesday evening in the Oval Office with Holdouts when Johnson called.
The result is a noticeable power of power, since the executive exerts greater authority while the legislative branch becomes weaker. The judicial department has carried out the sturdy buoyancy of checks and compensation through the dishes that process hundreds of lawsuits about the actions of the administration.
“The genius of our constitution is the separation of power,” said Democratic MP Nancy Pelosi from California, the former spokesman, in an interview about Siriusxm’s “Tomorrow with Zerlina”.
“According to this, the Republicans in the Congress would ignore the institution that they would ignore, and which only melted the power of the incredibly shrinking speakers and management positions of the Senate,” to do all of these things to do justice to the executive department, “she said.
Trump’s confrontation comes with costs
Senator Thom Tillis, Rn.C. The senator expressed concerns about steep cuts in hospitals, but the president threatened to fight against him. Tillis announced that he would not strive for a re -election in 2026.
Senator Susan Collins, R-Main, voted against this draft law and the recovery package despite Trump’s threat to the campaign.
A Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky, seems to be unphasis. He recently proposed legislation to force the administration to publish the Jeffrey Epstein files, which the president had reluctant to do.
“Nowhere in the constitution says that you have to do it if the president wants something,” said Senator Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, in a speech by the Senate. “We don’t have to do that. We do not have to operate under the assumption that this man is uniquely so powerful.”
