Congress Failing to Check Executive

Congress doesn’t act as a check on the President?

Congress is using their current power to get more power. It's supposed to be up to the executive branch (using veto etc.) and the legislative branch (declaring a law unconstitutional etc.) to hold them back. But really, the branches have an agreement to mutually increase their power instead of acting in the best interests of the people they "serve." As far as I can see, there isn't anyone left who's powerful enough to stand up to them.

There's this thing called "Congress" that is designed to prevent exactly that. (Granted, Congress has been pretty useless at that task for at least the last 12 years...)

I'm hoping a result of this shitshow is a curtailing the power of the executive. We've been slow-walking our way towards this by congress abrogating their responsibility under both parties. Probably requires actual restructuring of congressional elections and seniority systems though, which is... well going to be hard.

Well... That's only part of the problem.The real problem is that Congress delegated all its responsibility to the executive and judicial branches.To the executive branch it gave the power to declare war (war power act), and to make new law (administrative law). Then it created a new branch, the federal reserve, to make monetary policy.To the judiciary it handed the power of checking the president.Now Congress does nothing as evidenced by how little actual legislation they'v

The US president cannot do much without congress yet people never fail to blame the president for every problem.

The reason that Bush, Obama and Trump get away with it is that congress has been paralyzed for going on 15 years now. They could put a stop to it anytime they want by actually doing their jobs and legislating.

It is only the job of the executive because Congress told them so via Acts of Congress. Looking at e.g. the firings of the inspector generals, Congress has put very clear language into its laws on why and when those inspector generals can be removed by their post, yet Trump and his cronies ignored this.It should not be a formality because while it is true that the Republicans have a slight majority in Congress, the founding fathers never intended this most powerful of the three branches to be

That's on Congress for allowing Trump to repeatedly circumvent their approval.

Congress is rapidly becoming a failed institution. They have gradually outsourced their duties to various administrative authorities (such as the FTC) to the point that the only thing they must do to keep the US running is pass the annual budget and raise the debt ceiling.I think any time an administrative authority or, even better, the courts do something that a legislator wants done, they breathe a sigh of relief that they don't need to spend any of their valuable political capital tr