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@[email protected]  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Once Defended Congress’ Power of the Purse. Now He Defies It.
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As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation funding.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-trump-transportation-secretary-congress-funding?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Once Defended Congress’ Power of the Purse. Now He Defies It.

As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation funding.
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Bongolian
Bongolian
@[email protected] replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica The #GOP, individually and as a group, has no beliefs that they will not forsake or compromise other than personal enrichment.

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disorganized tropical low
disorganized tropical low
@[email protected] replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica let me guess … he argued for it while a Democrat was in the White House …

It’s not about principles, just power

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Iman Javid
Iman Javid
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@ProPublica 👋🏻 Who wants to duel?

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Mark Ohe
Mark Ohe
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@ProPublica

Of course, Duffy has been bought and sold to the highest fossil-fuel corporate bidder.

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Josh Griffiths
Josh Griffiths
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@ProPublica He made those remarks in 2015? Interesting, who was president back then again?

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