FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jeff Hauser, [email protected]
With Congress moving to vote on a government spending bill despite the Trump administration’s ongoing and explicit refusal to honor existing appropriations levels, Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser issued the following statement:
“Negotiating an unsatisfactory continuing resolution in order to maintain the status quo might make sense in ordinary times, but these are far from ordinary times. For weeks now the Trump administration has been flagrantly ignoring existing appropriations; there is no reason to believe they will treat new appropriations levels with any more respect. The public and the courts alike need to know that the U.S. Congress does not accept Donald Trump and Elon Musk shredding the core precepts of our Constitution’s separation of powers. Congress—not the president, and not the president’s top donor—has the power of the purse.”
The Revolving Door Project is continually monitoring the ongoing assault on the capacity of the federal government, including tracking the administration’s failures to comply with court orders, the DOGE agents carrying out Musk’s mission to dismantle public services, and the agencies they’re illegally gutting.
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