It's just Calvinball rules Whoever's the President just tries to work around Congress, which hasn't had any meaningful ability to make or change laws in response to the needs and desires of the public in decades
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They just go "Okay the death penalty still exists but we're not enforcing it" and we pretend that fixes the issue Until a Trump gets elected
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Really started in '94 but the first time Congress just decided that it wasn't gonna pass a budget and that would be just fine was when the klaxons should have been audible to everybody.
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"Well, our most important duty is controlling the purse but we don't have complete control over both halves of Congress and we don't wanna talk to or compromise with those icky Democrats so we're just going to ignore it and file a CR occasionally to keep the lights on"
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