Frustrated lawmakers are looking to 2026 in the hopes that they can reclaim some of the power many fear they’ve ceded to the White House under Trump.
Over the course of 2025, the Trump administration unilaterally shuttered or drastically weakened federal agencies, implemented widespread tariffs, canceled congressionally approved spending and conducted military operations in the Caribbean.
Democrats repeatedly cried foul, and even some Republicans aired concerns about the White House brushing aside Congress. Scores of lawmakers opted for retirement before the calendar even turned to January.
Now many are wondering whether anything will be different next year, especially with the added political pressure of the approaching midterm elections.
I wonder how long until Trump disbands congress altogether
Perhaps they’re not aware of how much power they conceded and how difficult it will be to get it back.
I’m sure quite a few have kowtowed not only for personal aspirations of power, but also because of all the threats of violence directed at them and their family if they don’t.
The Republican Party operates more like a crime family than anything else.
When you hand a dictator power, you won’t get it back until they’re gone.
I now think that anything Congress does to cede its authority to anything should be inherently unconstitutional.
Congresspeople on the day they first walk into office have less power than most people probably expect. They don’t sit on committees. It’s difficult to introduce legislation. Many of the important bills they vote on are giant monsters of bills and they have no option except to vote along party lines.
So individual congresspeople are put into a this conundrum. If they want to benefit their constituents, they have to play along with their party leadership. If the executive branch has too much power over the party, as Trump does, due to his controlling all the money, then essentially, the executive branch controls Congress.
We need to get rid of all of this ceding of power not just to the executive branch but also to anything else, like political parties, or even to rules of order, like how the filibuster works today. There are all sorts of ways that Congress today has less power than specified in the constitution.
The legislative branch ceding power to the executive branch is already unconstitutional. The biggest problem with Trump is not that the terrible things he does are legal, it’s that no one is willing to enforce the law and stop him. Without a way to enforce them the words written on dusty pieces of paper are completely irrelevant.
The same reason why…
I’d be curious to see if Republicans are able to find a pair anywhere among them. They seem completely nutless during Donvict’s second term.
At least some of them seem to be thinking about what happens after Donvict is out of office/shuffles off this mortal coil and seem to be giving pause. Or looking for the exits, so they don’t have to face the terrorism of Donvict’s henchmen.
Constitutional Convention, it’s been 200+ years, it’s time.
Unless we are dissolving the union, I don’t want it to happen. Republicans will vote to disolve all our right (except 2A) and make us a christian theocracy with a promise to Democrats that we can be a democracy “during the next constitutional convention”
With all of these guys in power? No thanks.
They should have one between the blue states. If nothing else, it’ll be a good bit of political theater.
