WHAT WILL REPUBLICANS DO?

Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas. What will Republicans do? Anything besides watching Trump and co-president Musk as they shred constitutional safeguards for the division of power over the three (debatable) branches of our government? Is the slash-first, think-later method beginning to cause any trickle-down concern as the tidal wave of chaos heads to your own states? Grants to help manufacturers in red states working on energy projects? Supporting medical research at universities in red and blue states? American farmers in very red states getting paid for aid programs that feed the starving? Maybe you’re not totally on board with destroying your own state’s economy at the whim of a tech guy with a bunch of adolescent hackers? While using all the levers granted to him to make sure his own interests are well protected? Maybe you’re hoping that capitulating fealty to everything that Trump has demanded so far will result in a little reprieve here and there? Good luck with that. Congress does love to announce that they come first – as in Article I of the U.S. Constitution, which gives the legislature the power to pass laws and approve spending. That's why the collective Republican shrug as Trump repeatedly oversteps the authority granted him in Article II of the Constitution to kill spending and fire employees without regard to federal regulations is so startling. The majority has meekly abandoned their authority, apparently leaving all hopes of restraining Trump's worst impulses to Article III of the Constitution – the federal judiciary, from entry level district courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. We’ll see if that goes in the shredder as well. Then what? The NYT reported that Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (slowing being gutted) which provided loans and grants for energy projects, has benefitted Republican-voting communities the most, citing research from Atlas Public Policy. You might want to remember that fact the next time Trump screams that it’s all Biden’s fault. As he guts Texas. Or maybe you’ve already been instructed to tell your constituents that as well? What will Republicans do?