The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover

Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by themaninthedark on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:46PM (#42923659)

It looks to me like this is the natural outcome of the executive branch deciding what mandates from congress it will uphold. I.E. deciding which laws to focus on enforcing and which one's to have lax/non-existent focus.

Until Congress grows a spine and starts legislating again, the executive will continue to run rampant.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by stetrain on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:37PM (#42924302)

I’m not sure how having Congress “start legislating again” would be effective if the executive branch can simply ignore that legislation under your interpretation.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by mrguyorama on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:56PM (#42925862)

Congress did this on purpose.

Republican's STATED OBJECTIVE for decades has been obstructionism, entirely so they can go on the news and say "Look how ineffective the government is". Go look at how debates happened on the floor of congress 40 years ago. Go look at the AMOUNT of work done by a functioning congress. Compare it to how little republicans have done in congress since.

Then go ask republican voters and they will tell you that they explicitly prefer a congress that does nothing.

They want a king.

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