WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to close down Congress so he could fill vacancies in his administration without Senate confirmation, stating he was annoyed lawmakers were not in Washington to vote on his candidates for federal judgeships and other federal government positions.
” The existing practice of leaving town, while carrying out counterfeit pro forma sessions, is a dereliction of duty that the American individuals can not afford during this crisis,” an angry Trump informed press reporters at his daily White Home briefing on the coronavirus crisis.
” It is a scam that they do. It’s a rip-off and everyone understands it, and it’s been that method for a long time,” Trump stated.
No U.S. president has actually ever utilized the authority, included in the Constitution, to adjourn both chambers of Congress if they can not agree on a date to adjourn.
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