Investigate the White House Plan to Govern Around Congress

Investigate the White House Plan to Govern Around Congress Investigate the White House plan to neutralize a congressional election result before it takes effect. This is not speculation. On November 1st, Reuters reported, with three sources including a White House official, that Stephen Miller and Russell Vought spent seven months drafting a detailed plan to keep executive policy unchanged regardless of the election outcome. Trump was personally involved. Nine days later, Miller runs the White House as chief of staff, and Attorney General Todd Blanche told CNN that lawmakers who conduct oversight of the administration "could be" investigated. That is not a legal argument. It is a threat delivered on national television. The plan has three moving parts that belong in the same sentence. Russell Vought, who has spent his career arguing the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional, now controls whether money Congress already appropriated actually reaches its recipients. A proposed grant-rule rewrite would hand political appointees, not career staff, the power to decide which universities, cities, and hospitals receive federal dollars. And White House counsel was coaching officials on how to respond to subpoenas before the investigators were even elected. These are not three separate stories. They are one plan, now staffed, now defended by the nation's chief law enforcement officer. The Impoundment Control Act exists. Oversight authority exists. The constitutional question is whether anyone will enforce them. That answer starts here.