Republicans in Congress are quietly attempting to pass major domestic legislation, including Medicaid cuts and extending Trump tax cuts. However, media portrayal often emphasizes the president's influence over these efforts rather than Congress's legislative role. This shift in focus reflects a broader trend where Congress has progressively relinquished its powers to the executive branch, especially since Trump's inauguration. This article critiques the diminishing authority of Congress, warning that this decline has been a long-term issue, not just a recent development, thus undermining the constitutional foundation of the legislative branch.
But since Trump's inauguration, Congress has ceded huge swaths of its policymaking responsibility to the president. That makes the media's focus on Trump unsurprising.
As a Congress expert who loves the institution and profoundly respects its constitutionally mandated role, this renunciation of responsibility has been difficult to watch.
The Constitution puts Congress first; however, Congress has gradually become relegated to a second-class status in policymaking and governance.
It is the result of decades of erosion that created a political culture in which Congress, the first branch of government, is given less importance.
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