President Trump is expected to sign a long-expected executive action Thursday calling on U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon “to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure [of] the Department of Education and return education authority to the States,” according to a fact sheet provided by the White House. Trump plans to sign the order at a ceremony alongside the Republican governors of Texas, Indiana, Florida and Ohio.
Isn’t it concerning to you Americans that your country is legislated purely through Executive Orders? What’s the point in even having a congress at this point?
It’s really odd as an outsider. The American senate, congress, and courts are largely abdicating their power. Why would they do that? Power is everything to these people.
It’s also disappointing that the Democrats did sweet fuck all in their term to deal with the abuses that Trump did in his first term.
That part is so frustrating. The other branches are the “checks and balances” we’ve always been taught to trust in, but the Republicans have become a cult that’s infiltrated all of the branches, nullifying those checks and balances. It’s horrifying.
As an outsider from a country with a system entirely infiltrated by corrupt politicians and their interests, what seems even more concerning to me is the GOP’s push to replace all the people in the federal government with Trump loyalists. This looks like an active coup on your democracy.
It is absolutely an active coup on our democracy, and basically the whole party is complicit.
Hugely concerning, and it’s worse than that because the other two branches of our government exist to stop this from happening but the appear to be totally OK with it.
Yes, it is!!!
I think we’re calling them Holy Republican Edicts now.
It is incredibly concerning. But it’s difficult to do much of anything. Protests often don’t reach a significant size, and when they do, they are not reported on. That leads to discouragement, the feeling that in wasting my limited time, risking my livelihood, and accomplishing nothing.
That’s one problem with being such a large nation.
More people are protesting now than in 2017, media is just declining to cover it properly. Every institution that holds power is helping the fascist be more of a fascist. Little short of assassination could stop whats currently happening.
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It’s terrifying.
Yes
The growing power of the executive branch has been a concern since WWII or longer. Hopefully this administration will be a kick in the pants to rectify that problem.
Gonna take a civil war for that to happen.
He’ll probably dismiss them next.