GOP '24 Win Would End Biden-era Abuse of Power

Biden’s abuse of presidential power is shocking. He has been issuing executive orders and presidential directives at a relentless pace to impose the Democrats’ radical, divisive progressive agenda over Republican congressional opposition.

These “presidential” actions far exceed Biden’s constitutionally defined powers, and circumvent Congress’s exclusive legislative power under the Constitution. They threaten our nation, our constitutional government, and our liberty. It is tyranny on steroids.

And the extreme Congressional Progressive Caucus is demanding Biden to do more. They crave government by executive fiat. This is the very threat of tyranny that drove our founders to conceive a constitution with separation of powers, checks and balances, and a Bill of Rights.

Article I of the Constitution plainly states that “All legislative Powers … shall be vested” in Congress. Note the unambiguous terms “shall” and “All.” This exclusive grant of power could not be clearer. In contrast, the president, per Article II, may only “recommend” — i.e., suggest — measures to Congress and is otherwise required to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Further, Article I bestows the power of the purse — the power to tax and spend — solely on Congress, not the president.

This distinct separation of powers is the foundational cornerstone of our constitutional system of government. It is, according to Madison’s Federalist 51, “essential to the preservation of liberty,” and “to control the abuses of government.”

Yet Biden has flagrantly usurped Congress’s legislative power. To date, Biden has issued over 200 executive orders and other directives that are sweeping in their transformational scope and threaten our national security, economy, religious liberty and individual rights; some of his more egregious actions that have had devastating consequences include:

• Halting the border wall construction, diverting the border wall funding, and opening the border to unprecedented illegal immigration, Mexican cartels, Chinese fentanyl and human trafficking;
• Canceling the Keystone XL pipeline; imposing a moratorium on oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters; ordering a massive release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; and ordering environmental and climate change programs, all of which severely compromise the energy security that is essential to our national security, and resulted in an substantial increase in gas prices for American families;
• Exporting abortion by ending the ban on the use of federal taxpayer funds for international abortion services;
• Directing a student loan relief plan that would be one of the largest expenditures in history (forgiving nearly a half trillion dollars of loans owed by 43 million borrowers), and that clearly violates the Constitution’s grant of exclusive spending power to Congress; and
• Ordering a radical racial equity program that requires all government agencies to implement, among other things, “equity-focused leadership,” “Equity Action Plans,” and “equitable outcomes” based on racial identity, all in violation of the 14th Amendment’s mandate for the “equal protection of the laws,” and the Civil Rights Act’s prohibition on discrimination.

For more than two years, Democrats in Congress have relied on Biden’s extreme abuse of presidential power as an “easy button” to implement their radical progressive agenda. And they want more as the Democrat Progressive Caucus urges Biden to use executive orders to further advance their extreme wish list that would never be enacted by a bipartisan Congress.

In Federalist 47, Madison writes that this accumulation of power “in the same hands” is “the very definition of tyranny.” Protection against this tyranny is dependent on checks and balances with each branch of government “resist[ing] the encroachments of the others.” “Ambition must … counteract ambition” (Federalist 51).

Biden and the congressional Democrats have subverted this critical principle as Biden wields unbridled executive power that would shock Madison.

Biden’s usurpation of power, his acts of “tyranny,” threaten the vitality of our Constitution, our nation, and our liberty. To end Biden’s destructive onslaught, we the people must unite in 2024 to elect a Republican president who can rescind Biden’s unconstitutional executive actions and reverse his ruinous policies; and elect a Republican majority in the Senate and House that can revitalize the constitutionally prescribed legislative power of Congress.

And to win, we must all vote!