Legal experts and members of the House GOP are at odds over whether Speaker Johnson and President-elect Donald Trump could, and should, bypass the Senate.
Some Capitol Hill Republicans are already starting to deliberate whether President-elect Donald Trump has a constitutional pathway to adjourn Congress himself in order to clear any possible resistance to his Cabinet appointments. Trump argued earlier this month in a post on Truth Social that 'recess appointments' would enable his new administration 'to get people confirmed in a timely manner.
The passage in question would allow the commander-in-chief to 'on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.' If Johnson proposes to take the House and Senate out of session and the Senate resists, then there is 'disagreement,' the theory goes, and Trump could send everyone home for as long as he wants.
The whole idea that a president could conspire with the House to eviscerate the Senate’s advice and consent for a nomination is outrageous,' Edward Whelan, a distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told Fox News Digital. 'The mechanism that they have in mind to do that would not work… the House of Representatives has no authority to try to prevent that same thing in session.
If he wanted recess appointments, nominating Matt Gaetz was the worst thing he possibly could have done…when you throw him in there, you just kill it easily because you just scared the crap out of, I don't know, probably 30 or 40 Republican senators.' But Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
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