UNCHECKED AND UNBALANCED: WHY CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS HAVE...

UNCHECKED AND UNBALANCED: WHY CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS HAVE ABDICATED THEIR RESPONSIBILITY

As long as Republicans control
Congress, Donald Trump’s reckless behavior will go completely unchecked.

Republicans in Congress have become
the Party of Trump, abandoning their self-avowed conservative principles to
enable his agenda:

When Trump attacks the Mueller
investigation they claim it’s not necessary for Congress to protect the
investigators. A group of House Republicans even
took the unheard-of step of filing articles of impeachment against Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — less than 2 weeks after Mueller’s
investigation, the investigation Rosenstein is supervising, issued 12
additional indictments against Russian operatives.

When the Trump administration
separates immigrant children from their families at the border, congressional
Republicans do nothing. 

When Trump insults our allies and
cozies up to Vladimir Putin, they take no action to constrain him. 

When
Trump personally profits from business deals with foreign governments, they
don’t investigate his conflicts of interest,
ignoring the Constitution’s emoluments clause.

The Framers of the Constitution
never intended for Congress to become a political arm of the president. Before Trump, Congress had exercised its oversight authority to
hold the executive branch accountable, conducting investigations, holding public
hearings. Twice in history, the House has impeached a president
for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

So why have Republicans, who now
control Congress, surrendered their constitutional duty to rein in this
out-of-control president?

It’s not just that Trump has
commandeered the party, making threats against lawmakers who cross him. 

Here’s the real reason for the Republicans’ abdication of their Constitutional responsibility: Establishment Republicans and their wealthy donors tolerate Trump’s attacks on our
democracy as long as he gives them massive tax cuts and slashes regulations so they can make even more money. 

It is time to hold Trump’s enablers accountable, and vote them out of
office. This November 6th, we can send them packing. 

But voter turnout is
everything. Democrats need to pick up 23 seats to win a majority of the House, and 2 seats to win a majority of the Senate. 

Every
race counts. Every vote matters in order to restore Congress to its
constitutional role of checking the presidency.