Trump threatens to adjourn both chambers of Congress [View all]
Source: the hill.
By Brett Samuels - 04/15/20 06:30 PM EDT
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"The Senate should either fulfill its duty and vote on my nominees or it should formally adjourn so I can make recess appointments," Trump said. "We have a tremendous number of people that have to come into government. And now more so than ever before because of the virus and the problem."
The president threatened to use his "constitutional authority" to adjourn both chambers of Congress, which would allow him to make recess appointments to vacant positions.
"The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro forma sessions is a dereliction of duty that the American people can not afford during this crisis," he said. "It is a scam, what they do. It’s a scam. And everybody knows it and it’s ben that way for a long time."
Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution grants Trump with the power to "on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper."
As a result, the GOP-controlled Senate which have to adjourn while the Democrat-held House objects to adjourning in order for the president to step in and dismiss both.
"Perhaps it’s never been done before, nobody’s even sure if it has," Trump said. "But we’re going to do it. We need these people here. We need people for this crisis, and we don’t want to play any more political games."
The Trump administration has long been plagued by vacancies across the government. Trump has declined to nominate full-time appointees to key positions, instead relying on acting officials............................................
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/493044-trump-threatens-to-adjourn-both-chambers-of-congress
I tuned in about 15 minutes ago. Trump looks and sounds like he is on uppers. hands flapping, mouth flapping.
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