Meijer stated, 'I think we have a legitimate problem when we have a Congress that doesn't feel like it has a sense of ownership.' He emphasized the need for Congress to take initiative rather than waiting for presidential commands.
It's no accident that Trump's power-hungry budget director, Russell Vought, has championed the audacious Nixonian doctrine of unlimited presidential power to "impound" (i.e., refuse to spend) money appropriated by Congress. Trump's insistence on personal diplomacy as the key to American power and world peace is reminiscent of the Nixon-Kissinger era of alliances made and unmade and wars launched and ended by secret presidential deals.
Trump has 40 more months - four-fifths of his term - left to stretch it further. White House officials tell us they're just getting going. They see chaos as their brand and "consequence culture" taking root.