Vice President JD Vance is blatantly attacking the Constitution’s separation of powers after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program.
Speaking in the White House Thursday, Vance called the ruling “absurd,” because “you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown.”
“What we’d like to do is to have the Democrats open up the government, of course, then we can fund SNAP, and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people,” Vance said. “But in the midst of a shutdown, we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation.”
As soon as it looked like we were headed into another shutdown, my guess was that their play would be to argue, “alright, it’s shutdown, I guess we don’t have a government anymore. I have no choice then, but to make a new one.”
Which you’d think would be a widely unpopular move, until he comes in with “and we’ll just use the original US constitution, no extra stuff like ‘amendments’, just good ol’ 1776 like the founding fathers intended”.
I think his base would actually get behind it.