(Stillness in the Storm Editor) POTUS threat to close congress for unnecessary delays in filling positions in his administration likely sent pans of fear to deep state actors guilty of treason and other crimes. This move could itself be preparation for indictments coming soon from the John Durham investigation, as disclosed by AG Bill Barr several days ago. This is a sign moves are being made to prepare the field for what is coming.
– Justin
(Brett Samuels) President Trump on Wednesday threatened to use his executive power to force both chambers of Congress to adjourn if the Senate did not confirm his nominees for vacancies across the administration.
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The president, during a coronavirus briefing in the Rose Garden, offered a lengthy diatribe against what he described as congressional obstruction and argued confirming his nominees was more urgent than ever amid the pandemic.
The Senate, which is narrowly controlled by Republicans, is not expected to return until May 4 but has been conducting pro forma sessions in the meantime. That has prevented Trump from making recess appointments.
“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 been 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.”
That means the GOP-controlled Senate would have to adjourn while the Democrat-held House objects to adjourning in order for the president to step in and dismiss both. Senate Democrats also have procedural tools to prevent the Senate from adjourning.
The National Constitution Center noted that “no President has ever exercised” the authority.
“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.
One hundred and fifty of 749 “key positions” tracked by The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service do not have nominees, while another 15 are awaiting nomination.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a key agency in guarding against the coronavirus and other national security threats, has not had a full-time secretary in over a year. A number of other top positions in the department remain unfilled.
Trump cited the director of national intelligence, two members of the Federal Reserve Board, the undersecretary of agriculture responsible for administering food security programs and the head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media as nominees he has put forward who are awaiting confirmation amid the pandemic.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) nominated to be the director of national intelligence has not yet received a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Judy Shelton, one of Trump’s Federal Reserve Board nominees, has not yet received a vote before the Senate Banking Committee, after hitting early skepticism from GOP members of the panel.
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