{"id":12809,"date":"2025-03-14T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:23:07","slug":"under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Republican-led Congress isn\u2019t just watching the Trump administration gobble up its constitutional powers. It is enthusiastically turning them over to the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">G.O.P. lawmakers are doing so this week by embracing a stopgap spending bill that gives the administration wide discretion over how federal dollars are distributed, in effect handing off the legislative branch\u2019s spending authority to President Trump. But that is just one example of how Congress, under unified Republican control, is proactively relinquishing some of its fundamental and critical authority on oversight, economic issues and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As they cleared the way for passing the spending measure on Tuesday, House Republicans leaders also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-tariffs-house-gop-vote.html\" title=\"\">quietly surrendered their chamber\u2019s ability to undo Mr. Trump\u2019s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China<\/a> in an effort to shield their members from having to take a politically tough vote. That switched off the only legislative recourse that Congress has to challenge the tariffs that are all but certain to have a major impact on their constituents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/us\/politics\/trump-congress-republicans.html\" title=\"\">Republicans have also stood by, many of them cheering,<\/a> as the administration has upended federal departments and programs funded by Congress and fired thousands of workers with no notice to or consultation with the lawmakers charged with overseeing federal agencies. So far, no congressional committee has held an oversight hearing to scrutinize the moves or demand answers that would typically be expected when an administration undertakes such major changes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is us, in a sense, giving the keys to the president to be able to continue to do the great work that they\u2019re doing,\u201d Representative Michael Cloud, Republican of Texas, said this week. Mr. Cloud, who rarely votes in favor of spending bills, was explaining his support for the stopgap funding measure the House passed this week and is pending in the Senate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the sentiment he described encapsulates the overarching attitude of Republicans in Congress at the dawn of Mr. Trump\u2019s second term, as they happily acknowledge they are turning control over to the president, who in turn is benefiting from perhaps the most compliant Congress in history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey are actively giving it away,\u201d Senator Martin Heinrich, Democrat of New Mexico, said of his Republican colleagues\u2019 attitude toward congressional authority. \u201cAnd they are doing so in an atmosphere where it\u2019s clear this administration is willing to abuse the power they already have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the past, lawmakers of both parties have fiercely protected their turf, pushing back strongly at moments when presidents have attempted to usurp congressional prerogatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Members of Congress saw their place in Article I of the Constitution as reflecting their branch\u2019s primary importance in a system of checks balances, and saw the executive branch as meant to administer their designs. Presidents came and went, members would often say, while Congress remained a constant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When the Reagan administration was suspected of illegally selling arms to Iran and diverting funds to Nicaraguan rebels, Congress in 1987 empowered a bipartisan, bicameral committee to conduct an inquiry. When House Republicans believed the Obama administration was illegally spending money on health care subsidies, they filed suit in 2014 and won a federal ruling that \u201cCongress is the only source for such an appropriation.\u201d Even as recently 2017, when Republicans controlled Congress during Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, a Senate panel investigated whether Russia had interfered in the 2016 election to help his campaign, ultimately <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/21\/us\/politics\/russian-interference-senate-intelligence-report.html\" title=\"\">issuing a report that supported that finding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With the House and Senate so polarized and legislative success so difficult to achieve in recent years, power has been inexorably gravitating down Capitol Hill toward occupants of the White House, which has been more than willing to try and exercise it with executive orders and other unilateral action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump is taking the shift to new levels, in part because of his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-republicans-congress.html\" title=\"\">iron grip on congressional Republicans<\/a>, which he exercises through a combination of cultivating warm personal relationships with them and the constant threat that they will pay a hefty political price for crossing him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Republicans dismiss the idea that they are giving the White House free rein. They say that the federal bureaucracy had become such a monolith that only radical action of the level being taken by Mr. Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk could produce meaningful change after decades of resistance and uncooperative agency officials. And they say they will reassert control through upcoming budget and spending deliberations for 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is the Super Bowl,\u201d Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News in describing how Congress would work with Mr. Trump to change the way government functions. \u201cThis is the moment we\u2019ve all been waiting for our entire careers, and finally, the stars have aligned so we can do that better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump, Mr. Musk and other top administration officials have already made it clear that they have little regard for Congress\u2019s authority, and Mr. Johnson has positioned himself <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/28\/us\/politics\/mike-johnson-trump-entourage.html\" title=\"\">more as a subordinate to the president<\/a> than the leader of a coequal branch of government with its own power. And once lawmakers have yielded their authority, they are likely to find it hard to claw it back, whether under Mr. Trump or a future president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For the moment, Republicans do not appear to be concerned with the precedent they are setting. Conservative House G.O.P. lawmakers who typically oppose appropriations bills backed this week\u2019s short-term spending bill precisely because it would hand Mr. Trump much of the authority for funding decisions that Congress would usually reserve for itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They said they were reversing themselves in part because the Trump administration had already demonstrated it would disregard congressional instructions to allocate money for programs lawmakers voted to fund. Democrats cited that as a reason to reject the bill, but Republicans said it gave them confidence that the administration would withhold money and reduce spending no matter what Congress said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think the comfort is that you\u2019ve got leaders like Marco Rubio at the State Department who aren\u2019t going to spend the U.S.A.I.D. money,\u201d Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio, an ultraconservative, said, referring to the U.S. Agency for International Development. Mr. Trump has moved to defund the agency, prompting <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/us\/politics\/usaid-foreign-aid-freeze-release-deadline.html\" title=\"\">a legal battle<\/a> over his power to refuse to spend congressionally appropriated funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Republicans\u2019 willingness to allow Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk to snatch away Congress\u2019s vaunted power of the purse has inflamed Democrats who argue that the G.O.P. has enabled the power grab with a blank check short-term spending bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHouse Republicans didn\u2019t merely refuse to address the lawlessness we have seen from Trump and Musk,\u201d said Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. \u201cThey would actually empower it with this bill, because House Republicans\u2019 bill fails to include the typical detailed spending directives, the basic guardrails that Congress provides each year in our funding bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/us\/government-shutdown-senate-democrats.html?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">moved on Thursday to line up the votes to allow the stopgap funding bill to move forward in the Senate<\/a>, arguing that a shutdown would actually cede even more power to Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Congressional Republicans have also relinquished some of their power on economic issues. On Tuesday they gave up any possibility of holding a House vote this year to overturn tariffs enacted by the president. The power to impose such levies was originally vested with the legislative branch, but lawmakers over time have increasingly delegated it to the executive. Still, under current law, Congress can vote to undo tariffs imposed by the president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under language that G.O.P. leaders tucked into a procedural measure this week, that law would effectively be nullified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey are abdicating their most important Constitutional obligation: oversight over the executive branch on trade,\u201d said Representative Richard E. Neal of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee who had led the effort to force a vote on resolutions to end the tariffs. \u201cRepublicans have unequivocally showed us who they are \u2014 cowards who kowtow to the president on everything including the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the past, Congress has typically called Cabinet secretaries and other high-ranking agency officials to the carpet to explain administrative overhauls of far less significance than the chaotic firings, program suspensions and funding cuts the Trump administration is now executing. There is no sign of that yet from the Republican Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Democrats, relegated to the minority in both chambers, have no power to convene oversight hearings and Republicans have quickly rebuffed their appeals and calls to subpoena Mr. Musk. Instead, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/05\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-doge-republican-senators.html\" title=\"\">G.O.P. lawmakers have huddled with Mr. Musk behind closed doors<\/a> and contented themselves with getting his cellphone number to raise any concerns they may have.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In their latest efforts to force scrutiny of Mr. Musk and the administration, Democrats on both the House Oversight and Ways and Means Committees have pushed \u201cresolutions of inquiry\u201d to require the administration to provide extensive information about Mr. Musk\u2019s activities, including internal communications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The resolutions carry special status that could force them to the House floor for votes. Republicans are unlikely to support them, but Democrats see them as another opportunity to highlight what Mr. Musk is up to and try to put Republicans on the record defending his work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/14\/us\/politics\/trump-republicans-congress-power.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican-led Congress isn\u2019t just watching the Trump administration gobble up its constitutional powers. It is enthusiastically turning them over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[114,436,469,2703,203,714,113,111],"class_list":["post-12809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-donald-j","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-politics-and-government","tag-presidential-power-us","tag-republican-party","tag-senate","tag-trump","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence - World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Republican-led Congress isn\u2019t just watching the Trump administration gobble up its constitutional powers. It is enthusiastically turning them over\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-14T07:23:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"News\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/person\/1d8ae7348e048cb7984f26b4dd818ff2\"},\"headline\":\"Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-14T07:23:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-14T07:23:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/\"},\"wordCount\":1566,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,549&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Donald J\",\"House of Representatives\",\"Politics and Government\",\"Presidential Power (US)\",\"Republican Party\",\"Senate\",\"Trump\",\"United States Politics and Government\"],\"articleSection\":[\"U.S.\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/\",\"name\":\"Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence - World News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,549&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-14T07:23:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-14T07:23:07+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,549&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,549&ssl=1\",\"width\":1050,\"height\":549},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/\",\"name\":\"World News\",\"description\":\"World News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization\",\"name\":\"World News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/cropped-download.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/cropped-download.png\",\"width\":581,\"height\":581,\"caption\":\"World News\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/person\/1d8ae7348e048cb7984f26b4dd818ff2\",\"name\":\"News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence - World News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence - World News","og_description":"The Republican-led Congress isn\u2019t just watching the Trump administration gobble up its constitutional powers. It is enthusiastically turning them over","og_url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/","og_site_name":"World News","article_published_time":"2025-03-14T07:23:07+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"News","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/"},"author":{"name":"News","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/person\/1d8ae7348e048cb7984f26b4dd818ff2"},"headline":"Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence","datePublished":"2025-03-14T07:23:07+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-14T07:23:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/"},"wordCount":1566,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,549&ssl=1","keywords":["Donald J","House of Representatives","Politics and Government","Presidential Power (US)","Republican Party","Senate","Trump","United States Politics and Government"],"articleSection":["U.S."],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/","url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/","name":"Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence - World News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,549&ssl=1","datePublished":"2025-03-14T07:23:07+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-14T07:23:07+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,549&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,549&ssl=1","width":1050,"height":549},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/under-g-o-p-congress-cedes-power-to-trump-eroding-its-influence\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Under G.O.P., Congress Cedes Power to Trump, Eroding Its Influence"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#website","url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/","name":"World News","description":"World News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization","name":"World News","url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/cropped-download.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/cropped-download.png","width":581,"height":581,"caption":"World News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/person\/1d8ae7348e048cb7984f26b4dd818ff2","name":"News","url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=150&resize=150,150&ssl=1","medium":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=300&resize=300,300&ssl=1","medium_large":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=768&resize=768,0&ssl=1","large":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1024&resize=1024,1024&ssl=1","1536x1536":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1536&resize=1536,1536&ssl=1","2048x2048":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=2048&resize=2048,2048&ssl=1","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=392&resize=392,272&ssl=1","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=390&resize=390,205&ssl=1","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=130&resize=130,90&ssl=1","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=800&resize=800,445&ssl=1","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=150&resize=150,150&ssl=1","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1400&resize=1400,600&ssl=1","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1155&resize=1155,480&ssl=1","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=600&resize=600,417&ssl=1","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=285&resize=285,450&ssl=1","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=575&resize=575,198&ssl=1"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"News","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e85cf08852547781a5f631f3713dbb5197ed4b54e32ae19c7d5769b8c8504897?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":false,"magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The Republican-led Congress isn\u2019t just watching the Trump administration gobble up its constitutional powers. It is enthusiastically turning them over","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["U.S."],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":24,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":8,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,549&ssl=1",1050,549,false],"medium":["https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=300&resize=300,300&ssl=1",300,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj\/13DC-POWERS-mbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=150&resize=150,150&ssl=1",150,150,false]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"News","author_link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/author\/admin\/"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e85cf08852547781a5f631f3713dbb5197ed4b54e32ae19c7d5769b8c8504897?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-33\">U.S.<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}