Donald Trump and the incredible shrinking Congress

[Zorro]

The framers of the Constitution imagined Congress as the preeminent branch of government. But many Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem content to play second fiddle.

Republican lawmakers spent the last two weeks deferring to President Donald Trump and signaling they are happy to cede power to the White House.

They fell in line behind his baggage-laden nominee for defense secretary. They barely protested his flip-flop on banning TikTok. They mostly shrugged off his firing of watchdogs without the legally required notifications to Congress and gushed about his freeze on federal funding even as they privately scrambled for clarity.

Now, their votes on two of Trump’s most controversial Cabinet picks, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., could either send a message that they will not always acquiesce to the president, or cement their fealty in the new administration’s early days. Trump’s announcement that he is imposing punishing tariffs on Mexico and Canada this week could also test Republicans, many of whom are free-traders who fear a hit to their states’ economies.

Plenty of Trump’s critics remain pessimistic about GOP lawmakers’ appetite for a showdown with the president. They say the past two weeks have demonstrated lawmakers’ reluctance to challenge Trump as he granted mass pardons for Jan. 6, 2021, rioters, pushed ahead with polarizing nominees for top government jobs and laid the groundwork to claim new authority over spending and weaken Congress’s power of the purse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/02/trump-congress-republicans-cabinet-picks/

Congressional Republicans are content to play second fiddle to Trump because he advocates the same fascist policies they embrace. They are all criminals, cowards, and traitors to the USA.

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1. Congress is neutered for Democrats

The best option they have is to hit the road, do town halls across the country. let the people know what Project 2025 will do to them.

Congressional Democrats are wasting their time sitting in D.C.

[chicoescuela]

2. Agree, the Republicans will continue to fall in line 100% of the time.

Nothing the Dems can do but try to inform the electorate as the media won’t

[FakeNoose]

3. The penalties for opposing Chump are too high for most of them

The Repukes in Congress are wimps who only care about getting re-elected. Look what happened to the few who opposed Chump: Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger (and a few others.) They're both out of office and almost kicked out of their Party. It's a little different for the Repuke Senators who don't have to run for re-election every 2 years.

There's never going to be any leadership among the Congressional Repukes, they're going to follow Chump straight into hell.