If it’s a great policy stance, they should do it now when they know they have control of both legislatures. Why wait?
Trump’s and Bernie’s plans would both require congress because the president literally has no access to funds without it.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 week ago
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So you think promising money he’ll never give out is a “great policy stance”? Huh???
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 week ago
giving out money is a great policy
voting for Trump or believing anything he says is idiocy
Lasherz12@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Your suposition is that the power of the purse still applies here. Trump has operated the executive as a collective slush fund, many times using horrible arguments that fail in court and then proceeding anyways. Also he’s allocated money from military coup projects like Venezuala to funds not under congressional control illegally.
Bernies plan is to first expand Medicare to all ages. Going off Trump’s logic this would be done by directing CMS by executive order to adjust the rates, the treasury department to allocate the necessary trust fund expenditures, the IRS to apply the necessary taxes, and the justice department to aggressively target every single possible violation in the private health insurance industry. Bernie’s actual plan is to use the bully pulpit as intended to pressure congress to act in accordance with those changes ahead of time, completely different. That’s because Trump moves to erode government into the pockets of the rich and Bernie seeks to build it stronger to benefit everyone. Executive overreach expansion has only been applied to benefit the rich effectively where everywhere else it had failed.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 week ago
The DHS and especially ICE also lost funding and shut down a lot of offices for over a month until the GOP passed a reconciliation bill.