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Trump Unchecked: Unprecedented Power in the Executive
Jim Wallis

Sojourners was among the first to say the oft-repeated refrain
that a budget is a moral document. Of course, that's still
true. Whether for a single household, an organization, or an
entire nation, a budget offers a sense of the moral values of the
people who create it. It shows who and what do and do not matter
-- what the priorities are -- for the family or church or
Congress or the White House.

When a president releases his annual budget proposal, there's
always a temptation to argue that it carries little weight --
that since Congress holds the power of the purse, many of the
president's proposals may be non-starters for the opposing
party and won't actually go into effect. That's why it's
helpful to view President Trump's budget proposal for
FY2021, which was released on Monday, not as a preview of
what's to come, but instead as a statement of purpose and
priority -- literally, a campaign document.

... It's clear that the Trump administration responded to its
party's defeat in the 2018 midterm elections not by moderating
its push to inflict harm on society's most vulnerable, but
rather by simply shifting its tactics to focus less on
legislation and more on executive orders, which far more often
fly under the media's radar. The administration has been using
every bit of executive authority it can justify, and then some,
to make the lives of people more difficult and less secure.

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