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GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid
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this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/what-is-an-executive-order-and-how-does-it-work#%3A%7E%3Atext=Statutes+have+to+be+passed%2Cspending%2C+and+certain+war+powers.
Biden can ask of Congress anything on day one -as any president can- but he can not write a law. You can take Biden’s words to mean that he himself was going to decree a change to the tax code or you can accept that his words were confined to his executive powers to ask Congress to do this.
I don’t know why sooo many people confuse the power of the president with that of a dictator. If a president can decree a law then why the fuck do we have a Congress?!
Ok the link didn’t load as expected… Fourth paragraph is the relevant part on law. The rest of the article is pretty interesting as well.