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Senate Republican Acknowledges That This Might All Be Very Illegal
While she has done little more than state facts, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is emerging as the only Republican member of Congress currently willing to call out the fact that Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s lawless DOGE crusade is stripping Republicans in the House and Senate of one of the main powers they possess as elected officials: to create agencies and fund the federal government.
Earlier this month, as TPM pressed Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill about Musk’s rampage — and got little but shrugs in response — Collins came forward to say she was “concerned” about the amount of power Trump had given the unelected billionaire. She warned then that many of DOGE’s actions — freezing congressionally allocated funds, firing government workers, probing sensitive taxpayer data — was “going to end up in court.”
Since then, no other Republicans have taken their rhetoric any further. A handful of Senate Republicans have subtly broken with the Trump administration to publicly discuss how important certain funds that have been frozen are to their constituents — like the handful who have been limply, publicly negotiating with the Trump administration to get back funding for crucial medical research in their state.
Collins doubled down during an interview with Politico Wednesday, going as far as suggesting that the Trump administration might be breaking the law with its recent DOGE actions.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where...nowledges-that-this-might-all-be-very-illegal
I knew it would take something like this. That is, I knew there would come a time when congressional Repubs started doing the calculus on whether their quiescent silence regarding the trump admin's daily outrages would cause concern for their own electability. Sorry Sue, you lost any pretense to respect long ago.
Not that they are standing on principle, or the many national security concerns, or objecting to trump saying he is the arbiter of whether he has broken the law. No, they just don't want any fallout to jeopardize their re-election. Getting rid of these spineless cowards would be a boon for the nation were it not for the certainty their replacements would be worse. As hard to imagine as that is.
While she has done little more than state facts, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is emerging as the only Republican member of Congress currently willing to call out the fact that Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s lawless DOGE crusade is stripping Republicans in the House and Senate of one of the main powers they possess as elected officials: to create agencies and fund the federal government.
Earlier this month, as TPM pressed Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill about Musk’s rampage — and got little but shrugs in response — Collins came forward to say she was “concerned” about the amount of power Trump had given the unelected billionaire. She warned then that many of DOGE’s actions — freezing congressionally allocated funds, firing government workers, probing sensitive taxpayer data — was “going to end up in court.”
Since then, no other Republicans have taken their rhetoric any further. A handful of Senate Republicans have subtly broken with the Trump administration to publicly discuss how important certain funds that have been frozen are to their constituents — like the handful who have been limply, publicly negotiating with the Trump administration to get back funding for crucial medical research in their state.
Collins doubled down during an interview with Politico Wednesday, going as far as suggesting that the Trump administration might be breaking the law with its recent DOGE actions.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where...nowledges-that-this-might-all-be-very-illegal
I knew it would take something like this. That is, I knew there would come a time when congressional Repubs started doing the calculus on whether their quiescent silence regarding the trump admin's daily outrages would cause concern for their own electability. Sorry Sue, you lost any pretense to respect long ago.
Not that they are standing on principle, or the many national security concerns, or objecting to trump saying he is the arbiter of whether he has broken the law. No, they just don't want any fallout to jeopardize their re-election. Getting rid of these spineless cowards would be a boon for the nation were it not for the certainty their replacements would be worse. As hard to imagine as that is.
