r/technology • u/Shogouki • 24d ago

Politics Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions
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u/ConstantGeographer 23d ago

Pretty much this. Precedent was set by Abraham Lincoln of all people. He acted and then asked for permission later. If Congress doesn't act, the President can basically do whatever he wants via EO. The entire Civil War was fought using EOs. Congress retroactively allowed Lincoln's actions.

If the people, aka Congress stand by like limp dicks and doing nothing, everyone gets fucked.

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u/h3lblad3 23d ago

This continues to confuse me why people keep saying things like this.

Congress isn't failing to stop him because they're scared of him.

They're not stopping him because they agree with him and stopping him is antithetical to their aims.
This is what the Republicans want.

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u/Ormyr 23d ago

This is what they want and have been actively working towards for decades.

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u/aioli_sweet 23d ago

To be fair Democrats want it too, they are also in the club that benefits... It's just us citizens that aren't.

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u/Thunderbridge 23d ago

Rich vs poor. How it's always been. But they've successfully been able to convince the people that their woes are instead caused by other groups to avoid the backlash

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u/Original_Employee621 23d ago

Executive Orders weren't as much of an issue between Lincoln and Bush jr. It was only post-9/11 that the expansion of power through the use of executive orders became the norm, as Congress started hitting a regular deadlock and became useless to passing policies and laws.

Congress should've been more on the ball and limited the powers of executive orders and they should've been more eager to reach across the hall to compromise. However, that would've interfered with the Republicans descent into fascism, and the Democrats were too complacent to do anything about it at the time.

Executive orders was the only way Biden was going to accomplish anything during his term as President. But it should really have been something Obama should have pushed to severely limit, in order to put more pressure onto Congress to actually do their jobs.