However, Colorado Springs area Rep. Doug Lamborn applauded Trump “for showing leadership and putting the American people before partisan politics. Democrats seem to be focused on implementing their own personal wish-lists instead of getting Americans safely back to work.”
CPR News reached out to fellow Republicans Reps. Ken Buck and Scott Tipton, as well as Sen. Cory Gardner on Trump’s use of executive orders. None of their offices provided a comment for this story.
Are the orders executive overreach?
The partisan divide over the president’s executive orders doesn’t end with their content — Democrats are unhappy that the president took such unilateral action in the first place.
In the past, Bennet, Perlumtter and Denver-area Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette all supported Democratic President Barack Obama’s use of executive orders when dealing with issues like Dreamers. However, they justify their opposition to these new orders by President Trump arguing that, while the executive branch has broad discretion on immigration enforcement, Congress has the power of the purse.
“President Trump is trying to use funds Congress appropriated in a way that Congress never intended. He doesn’t have the power to do that,” DeGette said.
She stresses that Congress has the sole power to determine how tax dollars are used and that the president can’t just move those funds around with the Legislative Branch’s approval.
During the Obama administration, Colorado Republicans decried Obama’s use of executive orders from immigration to gun control. None have raised public objections to Trump’s weekend orders so far.
Nationally, few Republican lawmakers have criticized the president's actions. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a strong supporter of the president, said he would have preferred “congressional agreement.”
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, however, didn’t hold back, calling the move “unconstitutional slop.”
"President Obama did not have the power to unilaterally rewrite immigration law with DACA, and President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the payroll tax law,” Sasse said.
The statement earned Sasse a strong Twitter rebuke from Trump.
Talks between Democratic leaders and the White House broke down last week over the size and scope of the coronavirus relief package. Many Republicans are balking at spending another trillion dollars or more.
Aurora-area Rep. Jason Crow, a Democrat, said “nobody likes spending trillions of dollars to deal with this crisis.” But not dealing with it, he countered, will cost much, much more.
“These executive orders are not what the country needs,” he said. “The country needs leaders who are willing to roll up their sleeves and actually come to the table to get this done.”
No further leadership talks on a legislative package are currently scheduled.
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