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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1222076" data-attributes="member: 56232">So Trump is now trying to shut down the department of education by executive order. Never mind that this flies in the face of separation of powers and fundamentally undermines Congress, not that they seem to care. It is for Congress to assign funding to programs etc and for the executive to enact them. It is not for the executive to simply decide it doesn&#039;t want to fund something, as has been well established since Nixon. If Congress had funded the department of education then that&#039;s where the funding must go. Trump is now basically saying that he can just create and dismantle entire government departments on a whim with no need for approval from Congress nor regard for any of the funding or laws Congress has passed.As usual, Republicans cried about Obama exercising executive orders but are quiet on Trump going much much further than anything Obama did with them. Same thing, their claimed principles don&#039;t actually mean anything.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1222076, member: 56232"] So Trump is now trying to shut down the department of education by executive order. Never mind that this flies in the face of separation of powers and fundamentally undermines Congress, not that they seem to care. It is for Congress to assign funding to programs etc and for the executive to enact them. It is not for the executive to simply decide it doesn't want to fund something, as has been well established since Nixon. If Congress had funded the department of education then that's where the funding must go. Trump is now basically saying that he can just create and dismantle entire government departments on a whim with no need for approval from Congress nor regard for any of the funding or laws Congress has passed. As usual, Republicans cried about Obama exercising executive orders but are quiet on Trump going much much further than anything Obama did with them. Same thing, their claimed principles don't actually mean anything. [/QUOTE]

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