Congress defaults to Trump, but stress tests are ahead: NPR

In the first 100 days of his tenure, President Donald Trump signed only five bills while issuing more than 100 executive lawsuits, a model that fits his views on stronger executives.

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If Trump adopted the Silicon Valley spirit of “moving quickly and destroying things” in his second term, “moving slowly and getting rid of” could be the corresponding march order on Capitol Hill.

President Trump took executive action in the first 100 days of his tenure, a rapid pace competing with President Beden's 162 actions during his tenure.

Considering that during the same period, Congress has issued Five lawsa low watermark in modern Congress history during this period.

Trump enjoyed the trophy of unilateral parties controlling Washington, and had no significant impetus when he passed executive action legislation from immigration to election law, neglecting regulations that required the White House to take certain actions before certain actions, and before certain actions, the economy related to the economy could be promoted in Congress, rather than proclaiming in Congress, without a doubt, no doubt, no doubt that Elsir allowed Elsir to propose a ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

To prove the loyalty of the Trump Party, Republican leaders have little problem with this.

R-la. “I think the media overreacts to what is going on,” Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters earlier this year.

Johnson said the president has the right to ensure that the implementing agency’s dollar spends a lot of time. “It looks radical, no. I call it management.”

But there are signals that some people in Congress are not going well.

R-Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski received amazing acceptances at an event in Anchorage during the last Congressional recession.

“We're all scared,” she told voters. “It's a big statement, but we're in times and places that I certainly haven't been to, and I'll tell you that I'm often very anxious about using my voice because revenge is real. It's not right.”

Meet the new congress, same as the old congress

Professor Joseph Postell, associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College, said Trump did not start this, but he benefited from it.

He told NPR, “Congress has ceded its authority, including authority over fiscal affairs, appropriations, budgets, etc. I think that is a huge concern in Congress to what extent Trump can lead Congress on fiscal issues, but I also think Congress has performed poorly with Congress and has shown the final or done the final work.

Congress aims to be a common branch of the government and a check on executive power, but in reality, modern lawmakers have proven willing to usurpate with their legislative power when the same party controls the White House.

This dynamic applies to both sides—just like Democrats cheered President Biden’s executive action to develop a student loan forgiveness plan, the Supreme Court later ruled unconstitutional.

It is this fertile position that allows Musk’s team to cut across departments, institutions and plans, while the general-led Congress rarely reduces it.

Congressional scholars like Postell say governments like this are the reasons for the attention. “I think a legislation is a serious constitutional crisis, and anyone who believes in a Republican government should care about the decline of Congress. So, I tend not to think that it is just a neutral change. I think it is a serious constitutional issue.”

Show them money

Members also need to decide how to approve the expenditure bill for fiscal 2026 (starting October 1) after the bill this year was paid.

Kevin Kosar, a congressional scholar at the right-leaning American Corporate Academy, said it is understandable that Congress cleans the deck when Congress begins, but the real test of the muscles of the Congress under Trump will be how they handle it next year’s spending bill.

“The patients we know are Congress, and I don't think they're completely dead,” Khosal said, adding that House and Senate members would want to make sure the money is actually going to cost because otherwise it's a futile process. “I think, ultimately, the appropriator's desire for power will start. I mean, that's going to have to start at some point. Otherwise, what's the point of being an appropriator?” Xhosa said.

Sarah Binder, a congressional scholar at the middle Brookings agency, agreed. She said: “You don't want to overuse the word, but it's a kind of existence for Congress, and it's hard to grasp the most important force of Congress as a wallet, and the parties can't be sure that the government will comply with the money that sets them as the law, that's them putting it into the law, so Jig is Jig, that Jig is?”

Kosar also nodded to the current political reality, and the House Republicans will be launched in 2026. Historically, the White House ruling parties tend to lose seats in the medium term. Republicans have a slim two-seat majority.

“I do feel that the administration and congressional Republicans do work in a two-year window to some extent, so the respect that lawmakers show is to some extent, for example, ‘We have to do that and see if we can win as much as we can, because these mid-terms may not go our way.’’’

To this end, Speaker Johnson even used parliamentary rules to effectively block the House's ability to abolish Trump tariffs, as well as any efforts to require an investigation into the use of signal messages for the resolution to be investigated. “I think it's an overdo, and I think it's just to avoid a tough vote,” Rep. Mary Scanlon said on Monday.

Thune told reporters Tuesday that Republicans want to be the president's “good companion” and he reiterated that Thune has the mandate – “clearly, it's decisive” to achieve his policy goals.

Recent policy struggles can subvert the Senate indefinitely

John Thune (Rs.d, the newly cast Senate Majority Leader.

The daunting task is designed to make Trump's 2017 tax cut permanent and use a budget process called reconciliation, including border security and energy provision, which allows the majority to bypass Filibuster, the Chamber's 60-vote threshold passed most legislation and promote a plan without a democratic vote.

Thune has described it as a “difficult” process that often involves relying on Senate members to refer to what can and what is suitable for a settlement bill.

The congressman is a non-partisan Senate staffer who protects Senate rules. In the past, reconciliation was guided by the person's judgment. For example, Democrats want to include a $15 federal minimum wage hike in the 2021 pandemic relief package, which is under settlement rules. However, lawmakers weakened the policy because it did not comply with the complex rules of what is allowed in the bill.

For example, in order for the bill to qualify for settlement and a lower 50 vote threshold, the federal deficit cannot usually be increased over the next decade.

But Republicans are already seeking to bypass the rule and lawmakers – with the support of Majority Leader Thune – to leverage favorable analysis to cut the impact of tax cuts. In fact, if Trump's tax cuts are extended without paying for payments, it will add trillions to U.S. national debt over the next decade.

Binder says ignoring MPs may be the result. “If you just ignore parliamentary history, it’s really because of the lack of better terms, it’s really’Calvin ball“You choose where the rules are just for the desired result, which is unstable for the U.S. Congress. ''

Thun could also face pressure to overwhelm the MP if the official rules set for immigration or energy policies do not comply with budget rules. Thune publicly stated that he doesn't want to exaggerate the lawmakers, but he may face a Trump campaign to get what the president wants in the bill.

Democrats warn that doing so would constitute a “nuclear” and threaten the fundamental pillar of ethnic minority rule in the Senate: litigation. “They have swept all the rules over the rules that have ruled the Senate for decades in order to cut a lot of tax cuts for their billionaire friends,” Schumer told the Senate earlier this month.