Are Trump Republicans setting the stage to dismantle Congress?
In Japan recently Trump said:
‘We don’t need anything more from Congress’: Trump has no legislative agenda
Delivering remarks in Japan, the incumbent president reflected on the GOP domestic policy megabill he signed into law in July. “It really covers everything, the Great Big Beautiful Bill,” Trump said, apparently forgetting the name he insisted on (it was the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” not the “Great Big Beautiful Bill”).
“We got everything done,” he added, “I said, ‘Put it all into one bill and if we get it done, we’re done for four years.’ We don’t need anything more from Congress.”
The president has emphasized this point quite a bit lately. Earlier this month at a White House event with a college baseball team, Trump again said, in reference to his party’s megabill, “We took care of everything. ... We didn’t know where we’d stand in a year or two years from now, so we put every single thing that we wanted in that bill for four years. So we don’t need any more votes.”
