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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 02:39 PM Aug 2020

Trump Goes After Sasse After He Decries Executive Actions As 'Unconstitutional Slop'

President Trump took to Twitter on Monday morning to scorn Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), who called his flurry of executive actions over the weekend “unconstitutional slop.”

Shortly after the President signed the executive actions during a press conference at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey on Saturday — which came on the heels of Democrats and the White House failing to reach a deal on a new COVID-19 relief package — Sasse tore into Trump’s move in a statement by characterizing the actions as “unconstitutional slop.”

In his statement on Saturday, Sasse wrote that former President Barack Obama did not have the authority to “unilaterally rewrite immigration law” with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The Nebraska senator then argued that Trump therefore “does not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the payroll tax law.”

“Under the Constitution, that power belongs to the American people acting through their members of Congress,” Sasse said in his statement on Saturday, joining the chorus criticism from both Democrats and some Republicans over whether the President demonstrated executive overreach with his actions.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-sasse-executive-actions-unconstitutional-slop

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Trump Goes After Sasse After He Decries Executive Actions As 'Unconstitutional Slop' (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2020 OP
Pretty bad when you lose Ben Sassy Sasse Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #1
There Seems An Out ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #2
Sasse has to answer to his Wellstone ruled Aug 2020 #3

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)
2. There Seems An Out
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 03:20 PM
Aug 2020

No matter the stupidity of his politics, he probably knows enough to conclude that these signings will never actually happen.
So, he can criticize safely because the word "slop" actually fits!

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Sasse has to answer to his
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 03:49 PM
Aug 2020

money Guy the Governor as the Governor's Father. Were talking TD Ameria Trade and Toronto Dominion Bank.. If you have been following the money from the first Stimulus,well,the Ricketts Family got a cut off the top of those Prepaid Debit Cards. All run through Omaha and Souix Falls newly created so called Banks.

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