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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sounded off on President Trump's use of executive authority on tariff action on Tuesday, accusing Congress of improperly giving up its power to the White House.
During a call with reporters first reported by Politico, the Iowa senator and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said tariff actions should be decided by elected lawmakers in Congress rather than by the president's fiat.
"It adds up to something pretty simple: Congress has delegated too much authority to the president of the United States," he said, according to Politico.
"Theres absolutely no constitutional crisis that this president or any other president has created," Grassley reportedly continued. "The constitutional crisis comes from the elected representatives of the people over the last 80 years making a dictator out of the presidency."
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Are you fucking kidding me, Chuck, you doddering dipshit??
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Typical GOPer.
Cirque du So-What
(25,940 posts)so he's gotta sound all rebellious in this moment. He'll return to sycophantic rhetoric once this crisis passes...assuming it does, that is. If things worsen, then Grassley's ass may well be grass.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)"Republican congress have allowed too much authority to the president".
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)fuck off grassley, you worthless piece of shit.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Not that he'd do anything about it. It'll take GOP congress critters choosing to override vetos in order to change anything, and right now they won't do that. Maybe if we get a democratic president and a cooperative democratic party, we can clean this mess up.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Volaris
(10,271 posts)Believing in the theroy of the unitary executive...maybe he's anticipating another democratic president, and is trying to get ahead of the curve.
Grassley is a complicit asshole.