https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/09\/19\/tiktok-trump-xi-deal-law-column-00571832<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Over the last eight months, the Trump administration has run roughshod over Congress and its constitutional prerogatives. Trump\u2019s decision to ignore the TikTok ban on his first day in office may seem minor in the grand scheme of things, but it foreshadowed a series of far more aggressive moves to usurp much of lawmakers\u2019 constitutional authority: dismantling congressionally-created agencies, redirecting congressionally appropriated funds and implementing a massive tax hike on the American public in the form of Trump\u2019s chaotic tariff regime.<\/p>\n
The vast majority of this was made possible by congressional Republicans, who have largely turned a blind eye to all of Trump\u2019s gambits, and by the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court, who have handed Trump a series of victories this year in his wide-ranging efforts to both unilaterally slash the federal government while dramatically expanding the powers of the presidency.<\/p>\n
The acquiescence to Trump\u2019s TikTok reprieve this year has been a far more bipartisan affair, but it has been a constitutional farce all the same, and it is not over yet.”<\/p>\n
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