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Congressional Accountability - News Briefs
GOP senators warn Trump against aggressive recess appointment move
The Hill By Alexander Bolton
Republican senators are pouring cold water on the idea that President-elect Trump could force the Senate into an extended recess next year so that he would be able to fill key positions in his Cabinet without going through the Senate confirmation process. Republican senators and aides say that Trump allies who claim that the incoming president would have power under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution to force an extended recess don’t understand how Congress really works.
Matt Gaetz says he won’t return to Congress next year after withdrawing name for attorney general
Tampa Bay Times By Farnoush Amiri
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz said Friday that he will not be returning to Congress after withdrawing his name from consideration to be attorney general under President-elect Donald Trump amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct. “I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch.
GOP senator blocks promotion of top general who oversaw Afghanistan withdrawal
The Hill By Ellen Mitchell, Joe Khalil
GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin (Okla.) is holding up the promotion for a top general who oversaw the 82nd Airborne Division during the deadly 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a source has told The Hill and NewsNation. Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue, President Biden’s nominee to head the U.S. Army in Europe and up for promotion to four-star general, was one of nearly 1,000 military promotions the Senate Armed Services Committee approved on Tuesday.
Video House Dem leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Gaetz AG withdrawal
ABC News
Jeffries weighs in on ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrawing from consideration for attorney general and shares where he hopes to find common ground with the incoming Republican presidential administration.
Video 'Putin has intensified his attacks on Ukraine': Rep. Gregory Meeks
ABC News
House Foreign Affairs Committee Member Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., joined ABC News Live to discuss what a second Trump term may mean for the war in Ukraine.
How Trump could skirt Congress to get his Cabinet picks through
Newsweek By Peter Aitken
President-elect Donald Trump will likely get away with recess appointments if he pursues them, although such a move would require a Congress willing to undermine its own power, constitutional law experts told Newsweek.
Will the Ethics Committee release the Gaetz report? 'Have to wait and see' says Rep. Ivey
MSNBC
We need to talk to the people and listen to them: House Democrat on lessons from '24
Intelligence watchdog departures raise red flags in Congress
Roll Call By John Donnelly
The unusual disclosures from two inspectors general at U.S. spy agencies that they are leaving their posts before Inauguration Day are raising concerns among some lawmakers about the independence that national security watchdogs will have in Donald Trump’s second term. Thomas Monheim, the IG at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is resigning. Robin Ashton, the CIA IG, is retiring.
The first transgender member of Congress, a bathroom ban and much angst
Washington Post By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux
After two weeks of unbridled elation over the election of Delaware's Sarah McBride, set to become the first transgender member of Congress, the country's trans community is caught up in a swirl of angst, anger and fear. For many people, it's not just because of Rep. Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican who on Tuesday introduced a resolution to ban transgender individuals in the nation's Capitol from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
Opinion | Four ways Trump will undermine the authority of Congress
Washington Post By Ruth Marcus
While a worried nation tries to make sense of Donald Trump’s spate of unqualified, extreme nominees, the president-elect is setting the stage for an even more alarming takeover: a vast, dangerous and unconstitutional expansion of presidential power.11-22
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