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From: S. maltophilia	10/3/2025 9:51:58 PM
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Donald Trump’s Shutdown Power Play The President learned in 2019 how to undercut Congress in a funding fight, and he’s been making the same move ever since. ....Even some Republicans called this a blatant abuse of power, but, when Democrats and a number of institutionalist holdouts in the G.O.P. joined together to pass a bill meant to bar Trump from seizing the money without congressional authorization, Trump successfully vetoed it. Instead of checking Trump’s power play, Congress proved to be incapable of stopping it. At least in Trump 1.0, the emergency decree was a one-off response to a specific funding fight with Congress. In his second term, Trump has learned to wield the emergency pen as if it is a magic wand granting him.... newyorker.com archive.ph

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