The president threatened to invoke a power never before used by any president, unless Congress adjourns to allow him to appoint individuals who the Senate has declined to approve
President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to use a never-before-used power that allows the president to adjourn Congress if the House and Senate won't voluntarily adjourn, so he can appoint judges and other executive branch officials without the Senate's approval.
Pack, Trump said, has been"stuck in committee for two years, preventing us from managing the Voice of America," despite the fact that the agency is legally prohibited from taking editorial direction from the country's political leadership. The president then threatened to make use of a power that no U.S. president has ever used—the authority to adjourn Congress"to such time as he shall think proper"—if the House and Senate won't allow him to exercise his recess appointment authority because"the current practice of leaving town, while conducting phony pro forma sessions, is a dereliction of duty, that the American people cannot afford during this crisis.
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