President Donald Trump - J.D. Vance Administration

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Sea Ray said:
It's too soon for me to assign fault but if courts are going to say that Trump can't cancel payments then it's going to be that much harder to get spending under control
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There’s a Supreme Court case that every law student learns, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer. It is taught not because of the majority opinion, but because of a concurrence by Robert Jackson.

It’s kind of a recitation of grade school civics, but the Jackson concurrence has essentially become the legal framework for executive power.

Jackson basically broke executive power into 3 categories:
1. The President acts pursuant to an implied or express authorization of Congress.

When the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum, for it includes all that he possesses in his own right plus all that Congress can delegate. In these circumstances and in these only, may he be said . . . to personify the federal sovereignty. If his act is held unconstitutional under thise circumstancies it usually means that the Federal Government as an undivided whole lacks power.
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2. President acts in the absence of congressional grant or denial. So Congress hasn’t spoken.

When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers, but there is a zone of twilight in which he and Congress may have concurrent authority, or in which its distribution is uncertain. Therefore, congressional inertia, indifference or quiescence may sometimes at least as a practical matter, enable, if not invite, measure on independent responsibility. In this area, any actual test of power is likely to depend on the imperatives of events and contemporary imponderables rather than on abstract theories of law.
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3. The president acts contrary to the will of Congress.

When the President takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter. Courts can sustain exclusive presidential control in such a case only by disabling the Congress from acting upon the subject. Presidential claim to a power at once so conclusive and preclusive must be scrutinized with caution for what is at stake is the equilibrium established by our constitutional system.
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I haven’t followed it extremely closely, but it’s extremely difficult to believe that what he’s doing with USAID falls under the first category.

Seems still somewhat unlikely that it’s in the second category, because Congress controls the purse and directs spending. USAID’s functions could be moved to another agency, but once Congress creates the directive to spend money, then it seems like Congress has to be the one to turn off the spigot.

JMO.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
Asking for status updates at work is actually 'adulting', and builds accountability.

It's hilarious. The people that think the US Federal gov't should be a major corporate employer think it's childish to treat it like a major corporate employer. You want to treat the gov't like a corporate employer? You got it. When a major corporation gets major upper executive leadership changes, it's not uncommon for them to go through and fire/layoff VAST parts of management and the workforce, then rehire according to the current leadership vision. I saw it happen at a major Fortune company not long ago. I wasn't cut, but I left voluntarily for another company before the cuts really ramped up.
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The US Government isn't a corporate employer; it's a government employer.
What are some of those major corporations and how did the mass fire and rehire trick work for them? It sounds like you didn't want to work at a place with upper management messed up enough to try it.
 
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EasternVol said:
The US Government isn't a corporate employer; it's a government employer.
What are some of those major corporations and how did the mass fire and rehire trick work for them? It sounds like you didn't want to work at a place with upper management messed up enough to try it.
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I was recruited to a position at about a 40% pay raise and even better benefits.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
Its getting a little heated in meetings now over Trump & Musk.

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Its funny how they turn on their own. I mean what could they possibly be mad about on Elon unless they are involved in fraud and other criminal activity?

He is simply another government worker, who works for free. What is he doing that is so upsetting?

Trump is like he is great, they're focusing 80% of their insanity nonsense on him. 😂
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
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Hilarious considering how many times MAGA has used "judge shopping", and the fact that they already tried to stop the judiciary from eliminating it.
www.bbc.com

How 'judge shopping' led to a showdown over abortion drug mifepristone

Legal scholars say litigants are shopping around for partisan judges to rule on their case.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

apnews.com

Republicans push back on new federal court policy aimed at 'judge shopping' in national cases

Senate Republicans are taking aim at a new federal courts policy trying to curb “judge shopping,” a practice that gained national attention in a major abortion medication case.
apnews.com apnews.com
 
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EasternVol said:
Good for you. So what are some of those corporations and how did it go for them?
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From the outside looking in, it seems that my former employer seems to be doing well. There had been a needed cultural change for productivity; from friends still on the inside, that has largely occurred. It was a company that had been insulated from much competition, but legislation was changing that.

As to other examples, I guess you could google corporate restructuring examples.
 
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