It was supposed to be a tax and border bill. It could also hand Trump vast new executive powers. - Politico

[justaprogressive]

It was widely expected that congressional Republicans would use the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy bill to cut taxes, boost border security and slash federal spending. They’re also proposing to hand President Donald Trump a broad new swath of executive power.

A legislative draft released by the House Judiciary Committee Monday and set to be adopted at a committee meeting Wednesday would consolidate the federal government’s antitrust enforcement powers at the Justice Department, taking them away from the independent Federal Trade Commission. And it would also supercharge the GOP’s deregulatory agenda, allowing Republicans to potentially overturn reams of government regulations during the remainder of Trump’s term.

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in a brief interview that his panel is determined to “address the cost of over-regulation.”

“Part of our jurisdiction in Judiciary deals with regulatory concerns,” he said, “and so we are looking at … spending and costs associated with certain regulations. That’s why that language is written the way it was.”

But the scope of the proposal is hardly modest. It includes a version of the REINS Act — short for “Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny” — which has percolated inside the GOP for more than a decade.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/trump-executive-powers-reins-act-ftc-antitrust-00317105

[Irish_Dem]

1. The GOP congress is all in for a permanent fascist regime.

They want a dictatorship. They are done with democracy which only gets
in the way of their goals: money and power.