Max Yoeli
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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What it does not do and should not do is be a stand-in for any notion of presidential power or action.
So for the president to push the boundaries on laws another way, to you know impinge on Congress's prerogatives, to act a certain way in the world, one can't just use it as a a trump card, if you will, to say, you know, unitary executive power, therefore Greenland should be ours.
It's become, I think, so capacious as to lose meaning in the way that it's been
bandied about in some corners.
We enter the midterm elections with quite slim margins in both chambers and the president quite unpopular with approval ratings in the, you know, high thirties, low forties.
If there were a similar shift to that that took place during his first term, the Democrats would easily retake the House.
And I think the base case is still that they will recapture at least that chamber.
The math in the Senate is quite hard, but I do think the base case is that the Democrats take at least
one chamber.
But there is an open question of the rules of the game.
The president has a primetime address that is reportedly predominantly about voting and election security.
And that is the latest in a set of actions and explorations that seek to recast the way that elections happen in in the US, whether that is aggressive redistricting that has been answered by redistricting in in Democratic states as well.
an effort to nationalize elections to kind of review who votes and how.
And that is something that could have a material effect on the outcome, though I still think the base case is that you have the Democrats retake at least one chamber and we can talk about the implications of what that may mean or not chamber.
I think for the president, if if the Democrats have the House of Representatives, it means that any legislation is dead because it has to run through at least one Democratic chamber.
You know, in this administration, it's probably less problematic than most because the president has already relied so heavily on executive tools rather than legislation, even with a friendly Congress's preferences for unilateral action.
So too on some of the traditional oversight.
Site mechanisms that might have previously been challenging for a president to deal with.
I think you'll see an administration that has rehearsed noncompliance for months, for years.
We'll find it quite easy to brush back subpoenas, oversight requests, and really anything that Democrats would want to do from scratch, whether it's a war powers resolution or you know
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