Trump plans to claim sweeping powers to cancel federal spending: In a second term, allies said the former president would look at funding cuts for the World Health Organization and green energy

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Classically, Congress held the power of the purse, able to both bar and require spending. This imposed a significant limit on Presidential power. With a bought court supporting him, Trump would have significant ability to essentially chart power as a king.

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I wish we had a way to simulate a universe in which the GOP gets every single one of its policies implemented. Then let it run like a Sim City level. Just to see what a dumpster fire it would be.

Kansas, 2014

The reason states have more powers than the federal government is to test different methods of government and see what works best, then apply those lessons everywhere.

Turns out the red states consistently wind up much worse than the blue states. But they're so brainwashed and poorly educated, they don't learn from observing better outcomes elsewhere.

The Kansas Experiment. What a glorious clusterfuck that was.

S&P downgraded its credit rating first from AA+ to AA in August 2014, due to a budget that analysts described as structurally unbalanced,[52] and again in February 2017 from AA to AA−.[53]

It bugs me that credit ratings follow the eBay review policy of "AAAAA+++++ excellent service!!!!!"