alt Hacker NewsThis fits a consistent trend:
Unless Congress explicitly mandates something by law, they should expect an administration to unilaterally dismantle it. Congress delegated authority assuming it’s used in good faith and courts+executive have called Congress’s bluff.
In this case it’s a facility created by NSF, but Congress doesn’t explicitly say this HAS to exist. Therefore it won’t exist any longer.
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TOMDM • today at 8:47 PM
It's mandated by law how tariffs may be levied and how states may police themselves and how they may independently conduct their elections.
If you think law will stop this administration then you're not paying enough attention.
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mikeocool • today at 8:34 PM
While true in the abstract, this administration has also dismantled numerous things that are mandated by congress.
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It's worse than that though. They are dismantling things that congress has mandated, and also just not making legally mandated payments, and no one is stopping them.
Congress has abdicated their duty of checks and balances. In a functioning government, the executive would have already been removed for not following legally mandated spending.