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Al-O-Meter said:
It is clearly unconstitutional. The President does not have the constitutional power to unilaterally create a trillion dollar expenditure. In our system of government, it is the legislative branch that has the power of the purse. The issue that may keep it in place has nothing to do with constitutionality, as it is obviously unconstitutional, but rather finding someone with standing to challenge it in court. Our legal system requires a plaintiff who can show harm from the action that is recognized by the court. That may be difficult.

I'll let you find your own sources but include the word "standing" along with whatever search terms you are using and it should corroborate what I wrote.
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Presidents have issued many executive orders allocating funds and expenditures. As an example, Trump issued EO's based on what was within his presidential power to increase unemployment benefits, defer taxes on payrolls, homeowner assistance, etc. FDR created and funded The Manhattan Project. Bush created Homeland Security which has a large yearly operating budget. The list goes on and they all have a price tag.

Do presidents have too much authority to decide matters that our legislature should? Absolutely and I think we need those checks and balances. But the Constitution provides executives a pretty wide berth on managing the operations of the government. If the SC wants to revisit Article 2 of the Constitution, they're welcome to do so.

For the record, I'm in favor of cheaper, more affordable tuition and interest-free payments of federally-subsidized loans vs. forgiveness, but we've gotten nowhere with those. I have little doubt that future administrations will continue to give bailouts be it to farmers, automakers, college students, etc. and one side will preach the win while the other will bemoan it. That's simply how Washington has worked for centuries.
 
Avery said:
Presidents have issued many executive orders allocating funds and expenditures. As an example, Trump issued EO's based on what was within his presidential power to increase unemployment benefits
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That was not in Trump's power. It was unconstitutional and noted as such at the time.

www.usatoday.com

'An administrative nightmare': Trump's executive action is a scramble for unemployment aid

It’s unclear if Trump has the authority to extend unemployment benefits by executive measures while side-stepping Congress.
www.usatoday.com

Avery said:
FDR created and funded The Manhattan Project.
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The budget for the Manhattan Project was all approved by Congress.

Avery said:
Bush created Homeland Security which has a large yearly operating budget.
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The budge for HSA goes through Congress every year. Congress has the power of the purse. What Biden has done is unconstitutional, and contrary to your assertion the constitution is actually quite restrictive in what it allows the executives to do in the course of managing the country.
 
The Thriller said:
Why would the FBI need to find documents on a hoax they already created? I don’t get this
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The first half of the Mueller Report did find the FBI created a hoax, but the second half was about possible obstruction of the hoax. The team leading the raid into Mar-o-Lago is the same team who worked on the Mueller Report. After being exposed as political operators with badges, they are trying to go in after the fact to find anything they can to vindicate their earlier work and they don't care if they have to burn down the entire country in the process.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
The team leading the raid into Mar-o-Lago is the same team who worked on the Mueller Report.
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If you know this is true, you would be able to list the names in both efforts. I doubt you can.

Al-O-Meter said:
After being exposed as political operators with badges, ...
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YAWN. Conservative were pretty happy in the days on COINTELPRO. Now that they are the ones forming violent, subversive groups they've suddenly gone anti-FBI (despite the FBI still being one of the most conservative government organizations). It's too convenient for me to feel much sympathy for you.

www.politico.com

The FBI looks like Trump's America

With 67 percent white male agents, the bureau doesn't resemble America. Did its conservative culture play a role in Comey's surprise decision to reveal the Clinton email probe?
www.politico.com www.politico.com

theintercept.com

The FBI’s Long History of Treating Political Dissent as Terrorism

A new report documents the FBI’s history of violating the civil rights of political dissidents.
theintercept.com theintercept.com
 
I thought this was thought provoking

“the people” in 1789 or 1868 versus today, the most fundamental problem is the tyranny of the past over the present. If today’s Americans could freely decide that the Second Amendment’s “right of the People to keep and bear arms” should remain our fundamental law today, it wouldn’t really matter that the language was, in a sense, proposed to us by members of a very different, long-ago society. The real scandal of the Constitution is that it gives the living people no real choice in the matter. Past generations dictate our fundamental law.
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www.theatlantic.com

The Constitutional Flaw That’s Killing American Democracy

The Constitution doesn’t have to be something we merely inherit; it could be something we can change ourselves—starting with rewriting the too-stringent rules for making such changes.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
 
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