No. of Recommendations: 5
The govt is essentially a monarchy, not three branches.
It's not. The Administration's had its wings clipped by the other branches more than a few times. Just not in public. That's why the Administration had to cave on nearly all their efforts to strip funding. Congress back-channeled back to them that violating that Anti-Impoundment Act was a bridge too far, and they ended up pushing all the money out the door that had been appropriated. The few times they tried to not do that they got slapped by the judiciary - and they followed those orders, most recently with all that Gateway funding getting out the door as well. This Administration has lost a lot in the lower courts, and for the most part they've declined to appeal a lot of those losses and just complied. There are several very well-publicized examples to the contrary, of course - but in the majority of the cases, they've been forced to color within the lines and they've stuck to that.
The Administration has fostered the public perception that they are a whirlwind of revolutionary/lawbreaking activity (depending on your perspective) that's completely Changing Everything We Thought About Government. Both the Administration and their Democratic opponents benefit from that perception. But the reality is more prosaic. Government is still doing and spending pretty much exactly what it would have done and spent anyway, with some very visible but tiny (relative to the government) contrary examples (RIP USAID).
