GOP sen. Ben Sasse fired back at President Trump on Monday for claiming he had gone ‘rogue’ after dismissing his executive actions over the weekend as unconstitutional.
“Mr. President – I understand you’re crazy. A few thoughts, ”Sasse, of Nebraska, tweeted Monday from the account of his campaign, along with a picture of a point-by-point reissue following the president’s tweets early Monday. “As we’ve discussed before, I do not think Twitter is the best place to do this. But, since you’re moving our conversation from private to public, we’re here … ”
Sasse went on to say that he understands that Trump is “frustrated” that he “did not participate in your re-election commission and that I published a primary ad that tells Nebraskans that we sometimes agree and sometimes disagree. “
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“You also know that I never asked for your approval, and I did not use that in the campaign,” Sasse said, adding that “none of my agreements are personal,” and that “from our many conversations, even in the last few weeks – that I personally care about myself and try to help you several times, even about problems where our cautious judgments [sic] differ widely. ”
Sasse also went on to say that he never asked the president for personal benefits.
“I have pleaded with you, but for bigger things like better US policy on the Chinese Communist Party – and on this you have done a very good job,” Sasse said.
FIL – In this 27 September 2018, file photo, sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., Walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The First Chamber urges a vote on Republican legislation that would threaten the prison for doctors who do not visit the lives of children born during abortions. “I want to ask each of my colleagues if we are okay with infanticide,” the measure’s main sponsor, Sasse, said on Monday, February 25, 2018, when debate began. (AP photo / Carolyn Kaster, file)
He also gave the president a quick civic lesson.
‘Well, on the subject you were crazy about [sic] this weekend: No president – whether it is called Obama or Trump or Biden as AOC – has unilateral power to rewrite immigration law or to reduce taxes or to raise taxes. ”
And the senator violated the most basic elements of the national system of controls and balance.
“This is because America has no kings,” Sasse said. ‘Under our constitution we must have officials – Article I people who pass laws; a Article II ‘presiding officer’ enforcing those laws; and Article III judges who have to wear boring black robes to remind them that they are not activist players like the people in Articles I or II. “
The note was signed: “Sincerely, Gym Rat.”
Sasse’s reference refers to a 2016 Trump tweet, in which he stated that Sasse “looks more like a gym rat than a U.S. senator.”
Sasse’s release came after the president called the Nebraska senator a “RINO,” as a “Republican by name only,” on Monday morning after Sasse criticized the president’s move to coronavirus-related executive actions over to sign the weekend. Sasse called the orders an “unconstitutional slop.”
“RINO Ben Sasse, who needed my support and distinction to get the Republican nomination for Senate from the GREAT State of Nebraska, has, now that he has it (Thank you, President T), become rogue again, “tweet Trump. “This folly is playing right into the hands of the Radical left dems!”
Trump signed executive action over the weekend in an attempt to break the strike in negotiations between Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill over the fourth coronavirus incentive package.
The executive actions included $ 400 a week in additional unemployment benefits – a replacement for the program passed under the CARES law during the year, which gave unemployed people an extra $ 600 a week until the federal program ended. July expired.
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The action would require states to pay $ 25 percent of the week’s benefit $ 400, while the federal government would charge $ 75 percent.
The $ 400 payment to unemployed Americans came when Republicans on Capitol Hill claimed that the initial unemployment insurance program was incentivizing Americans to return to work, with many raising more money for the unemployed than committing. Republicans pushed for the program to be reduced to $ 200 per week, while Democrats argued that the program should be renewed to the original $ 600 per week.
The president also outlined executive actions that would encourage federal efforts to help tenants and homeowners avoid eviction or negligence for the failure of their monthly payments; defer the payroll tax from Sept. 1st. until 31 Dec. 2020, for employees making $ 100,000 a year; and stop federal student loan payments and set interest rates at 0% through Dec. 31. 2020 – The current student loan relief program is set to expire on 30 September.
Meanwhile, White House Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday defended the president’s actions, citing U.S. code and federal statutes to support her claim.
“What we are doing is completely within the executive capacity of the president,” McEnany said Monday.
