What keeps the executive branch in check?
Reparations
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You know this took exactly 10 seconds on a Google search:
âThe US Constitutionâs system of checks and balances, particularly through the legislative and judicial branches, keeps the executive branch in check, preventing any one branch from becoming too powerful.â
Before you ask, thereâs more:
âThe judicial branch of the U.S. government is the system of federal courts and judges that interprets laws made by the legislative branch and enforced by the executive branch.â
Key phrase: âinterprets laws made by the legislative branchâ
Now, what âlawsâ has this judge based his decision on?
Iâll wait and remember the hapless Ol Joey ignored a USSC ruling unconstitutional his student loan vote buying scheme.
And enforced by the executive branch.
The law would be the one where the judge noted
âa sham in order to try to avoid statutory requirements,
Now i donât necessarily agree or disagree with the decision but this is well within his purview and disagreement doesnât a hack make.
If I were those fired employees, I wouldnât get to comfortable. In the end they wonât be staying in their job.
The administration is targeting probationary employees in their first year. They can be fired without cause. The judgeâs ruling wonât hold up to appeal. In the end the employees wonât be allowed to stay in their jobs.
From Google AI:
Yes, a probationary federal employee can be terminated without cause, meaning an agency doesnât need to demonstrate a specific reason for the termination, as long as itâs not based on discriminatory or prohibited reasons.
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Heâs not a good judge.
Heâs a political hack.
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The judge says that OPM cannot fire federal workers. That may be so, but it the real authority behind this is the President that should be irrelevant. What, the President is to go through the agencies for which they work and have those agencies do the firing?
FineâŚbut the appeals should see that this is the head of the executive branch, not OPM.
Here is a rant from Obama about Bushâs unpatriotic addition to the national debt back in 2008.
âThe problem is that the way Bush has done it in the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion from the first 42 presidents. No. 43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome. So we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back. $30,000 for every man woman and child. Thatâs irresponsible, thatâs unpatrioticâ
Debt ceiling skyrockets, Obama no longer calls Bush 'unpatriotic' for increases | Fox News
The debt was then $9 trillion; now it is over $36 trillion.
Trump added $8 Trillion of that.
Show me.
That shows about 7.4. So I might be off with 8.
Bush doubled the debt. Obama doubled the total debt again. Biden and Trump together have doubled it yet again. This is a bipartisan issue.
The growth of the debt is not sustainable. The logical place to start to fix the problem is by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, which is exactly what DOGE is doing.
If we stay on the current path, the only question is exactly when the US will default.
What is the Democratsâ solution?
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And to me, thatâs noise, whether itâs 7.4 or 8. He shouldnât have added it.
And you know what? Even with the cutting under way, Trump will add even more to the debt. And next year too.
Interest on the national dent was about $450 billion in 2022.
Interest on the national dent was about $650 billion in 2023.
Interest on the national dent was about $850 billion in 2024.
It will exceed a trillion for this year.
Adding to the debt MUST STOP. This is not sustainable.
Well, a lot of people would say that the COVID era spending âdoesnât count.â
Even if we grant them that
Trump 1.0 still spent more than the âbig-spending war monger.â
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Question for youâŚif Trump adds new trillion dollars spent before end of this fiscal yearâŚwho owns that debt. Trump or Biden?
Using your chart, I get 6.7 trillion. Of the 6.7 trillion, 2.2 trillion was the COVID related stimulus. So, in reality, Trump increased the federal dept by half the 8 trillion you stated.
2017 20.2 trillion
2020 26.9 trillion
True, but interest payments are not really at fault.
(It was true when we said that during the Reagan era, but it is immaterial now.)
Below is
Federal expenditures
MINUS interest payments
-vs- GDP
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Letâs look at it a different way. If DOGE is wildly successful, saving the government a trillion dollars before the end of this fiscal year⌠who gets the credit. Trump or Biden?
In my opinion, the 2025 fiscal year belongs to Trump.
If saving take effect before end of fiscal yearâŚBiden.
