GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley Says Trump Isn't Following The Law
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The Iowa Republican said the president needs to notify Congress before firing watchdogs in charge of rooting out waste, fraud and corruption.

Summary

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) criticized Donald Trump for illegally firing inspectors general without giving Congress 30 days’ notice.

Trump recently dismissed the USAID inspector general after a report exposed the administration’s mismanagement of foreign aid, putting $489 million in food assistance at risk.

Grassley, a longtime watchdog advocate, said Trump could still remove officials legally by placing them on administrative leave.

  • thallamabond@lemmy.world
    157·
    3 days ago

    With full control of the executive, Congressional, and supreme Court, all of this stuff could be done legally. Trump is CHOOSING not to for the sole purpose of extending the power of the executive as has been described by many (Unitary Executive Theory). These senators and representatives would be smart not to cede any power, they will not get it back.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    24·
    3 days ago

    If only there was something the Senate could do to like, remove him from office for acting like a dictator… some sort of, call me crazy, impeachment.

  • MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world
    533·
    3 days ago

    You need enough Republicans speaking up that they can impeach Trump. Dems are being quiet to let Republicans lead on this, they are the only ones who could possibly do it. Democrats leading will only make Republicans defend him.

    • xyzzy@lemm.ee
      142·
      3 days ago

      I don’t mean to be rude, but are you from Candyland? You need 20 Republicans in the Senate to convict him and remove him from office. He tried to kill them and they still didn’t convict him.

      It won’t happen.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        7·
        3 days ago

        I’m largely inclined to agree, but his point stands that the Democrats are completely impotent in the current situation (at least legally). Whatever slim chance there is rests with Republican infighting.

        I suppose if I try hard I can cling to a hope. He indirectly threatened their lives whole going out the door. A lot of the stakeholders likely genuinely thought he was going to go away without them having to alienate the Trump fanatics. So opting out of second impeachment they perceived as their best shot at retaining power.

        Now Trump is quite directly doing everything to render the legislature powerless. Threaten their lives, that’s one thing, but to deny them the power they won, well maybe that’s a different thing…

        • xyzzy@lemm.ee
          3·
          3 days ago

          Democrats are not impotent; they can vote no on every confirmation, every bill, every time. They can delay all votes using parliamentary procedure. They’re just not doing it because they want to play nice. They think Americans will get tired of this on their own and vote Democrats into majorities in 2026. They don’t want to give Trump an excuse to say Democrats obstructed him so he had to do this, etc. But it won’t work, and while they play nice we’ll descend into autocracy.

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      171·
      3 days ago

      Yea you’ve got a good point actually. I would say the GOP are got damn toddlers, but that would be an insult to toddlers everywhere and you don’t want to end up on the toddler cartel shit list.

    • diskmaster23@lemmy.oneEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      That’s why personally I am not sitting here being outraged and Facebooking the outrage. It ain’t gonna do anything.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    311·
    3 days ago

    Trump? Doing illegal things??? Shocked! I am shocked! Yes, that’s the word. No other word describes my feelings on this! Shocked I say!!!

    …not that shocked actually.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      61·
      3 days ago

      If only there was some sort of indication he doesn’t follow the law, like previous impeachments, actual court convictions and decades of being a real estate developer.

      • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        If only there were. For now, we’ll just have to let Donald “I’m a convicted felon” Trump do whatever he wants.