President Trump and Elon Musk, backed by Republicans, are pushing H.R. 1295, a bill granting them unchecked power to dismantle federal agencies, gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and purge federal workers. Ranking Member Gerald E. Connolly warns this “Dismantling Government Act” bypasses congressional authority, putting millions at risk.
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00:00Well, Congressional Republicans have finally admitted, with this bill, that
00:05President Trump and Elon Musk do not have the legal authority to delete whole
00:11federal agencies, nor do they have the legal authority to take a chainsaw to
00:18essential programs like Social Security and Medicaid or Medicare, or to purge the
00:24federal workers that care for veterans, keep our food supply safe, and fight
00:29cancer. Congressional Republicans also know these dangerous, deeply unpopular
00:37cuts would face a real challenge in congressional approvals to a regular
00:42order, as they have in the past, which you just pointed out. So now they've
00:47bought H.R. 1295, the so-called Reorganizing Government Act, in a
00:53desperate attempt to circumvent normal congressional process. The bill isn't
00:59about reorganizing government, it's about dismantling it. H.R. 1295 would use the
01:08shell of a long, dormant statue as a Trojan horse to give President Trump and
01:13Elon Musk unprecedented, filibuster-proof authority to eliminate federal
01:19department and agencies, statutory programs, government services, and regular
01:25protections to promote the health and well-being of American families. This
01:31dormant authority was used in the past, between 1932 and 1984, to allow a
01:39President limited, limited authority to present plans to reorganize limited
01:46portions of the government, which could then be fast-tracked to Congress.
01:50Congress has chosen not, not to renew that authority in over four decades,
01:58despite requests to do so, as you point out, for Presidents Clinton, Bush, and
02:03Barack Obama. In the past, Presidential Reorganization Authority was used to
02:09respond to the needs of the American people, including creating the agencies
02:14of EPA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and the
02:20Federal Emergency Management Agency. And it came with key limitations and guard
02:26rails. H.R. 1295 dramatically and recklessly
02:30expands the power it would give to President Trump and Elon Musk, and
02:34without these key limitations, the guardrails that have always existed. In
02:39fact, the bill would include new presidential powers Congress explicitly
02:45prohibited the last time it granted this authority. For example, it would strike
02:51language that prevented past plans from abolishing whole executive departments
02:55and independent regulatory agencies, terminating any enforcement functions or
03:00statutory programs. The Dismantling Government Act would grant Donald Trump
03:07and Elon Musk a filibuster-proof pathway to get their reckless actions blessed by
03:11Congress, and we already know exactly what they'll do with that power. They
03:16will abolish whole departments and agencies. President Trump could use this
03:21new power to abolish the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce,
03:25Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the National Labor Relations Board, the
03:30Institute of Peace, the Agency for International Development, and any other
03:34federal entity with a simple majority vote in the House and the Senate. They
03:39will wipe away statutory protections authorized by Congress. Trump would be
03:45able to use this power to eliminate statutory programs through his
03:49reorganization plans, a feature that was expressly prohibited by
03:55Congress in the past. Republicans in Congress would not be able to amend the
04:00plans, so they'd be able to be forced to support a broad reorganization package
04:05that cuts or eliminates Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or the programs
04:09beloved by their constituents. They will eliminate regulatory protections that
04:14keep people safe and healthy. President Trump will use this new power to gut
04:19agencies' abilities to enforce laws and regulations. Goodbye regulations that are
04:25protecting Americans for junk fees, air pollution, and lead in our drinking water.
04:30And they will use this authority to eliminate the defenses we have against
04:35reckless purges of our federal workers, purges that have often been found
04:40unlawful by courts all around the country in the last month. Unlike the
04:46previous reorganization authority, Trump's new power would explicitly
04:50authorize any planning deemed necessary to reduce the number of federal
04:54employees. The Dismantling Government Act does nothing more than hand even more
04:59power over to an unelected billionaire, Elon Musk. It's an unconscionable affront
05:04to the American people, and I urge my colleagues to oppose it. I yield back.
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