Comment by ModernMech

> I’m sure you won’t see the police, public health, state dept, as waste.

Nope, I want to defund all of that. I want 0 of my tax dollars going to that waste. Police is abuse. Public health is a fraud. State Department is waste. Our points of view are irreconcilable, we need a system to resolve our differences civilly.

> So sure, it would be great to hold hands on this but that’s not how our system works.

The totality of our laws and system of government were decided iteratively by majorities representing all sides at some point. The President doesn't get to come in and decide all the laws passed by Democrats in the past are "waste and fraud" which seems to be what he's trying to do. The way to change the law is to go through Congress, but of course changing the law is much harder than not implementing.

> Congress sets a budget and laws with very high level instructions. The President’s job is to implement.

His job according to the Constitution is to implement "faithfully", meaning it's not his will that he's carrying out, it's the will of Congress. We already have an IG system to give Congress feedback on whether the agencies are running how they see fit, but Trump just gutted that. That's not the behavior of someone faithfully implementing the laws for Congress, that's the behavior of someone implementing laws for himself.

> But crying “Constitution crisis!” When the President, with all the powers of the Executive

What they are doing is not one of the powers. The Constitution does not allow for this, the law does not allow for this either. They are breaking the law.