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when the president harry truman Running for re-election in 1948, he opposed the “do-nothing” 80th Congress, which passed 906 separate bills into law over a two-year period, including the landmark Taft-Hartley Union Regulation Act and the National Security Act of 1947, which created the modern American military establishment.
More than 75 years later, it would be much easier for Truman to make Arguments against the 119th Congress.
during the presidency donald trumpA whirlwind, Republican-led first year in office Home And management committee Sitting largely idle as the 47th president has usurped powers once considered the exclusive domain of the legislature, doing just 4 percent of the work done by his historically disgraced predecessors, sending a paltry 38 bills to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
It has left out many of Trump’s milestones Changes coming from executive ordersBecause it centralizes government power in the White House and away from Capitol Hill.
Most of the legislation passed by Congress was so-called “disappropriation” proposals, which rolled back regulations enacted during the previous administration but did not create new policies.
One, Epstein Files Transparency ActIt was brought to the House floor by the rarely used discharge petition process over the objections of House Speaker Mike Johnson, and was ultimately signed into law by Trump only after the Senate passed it unanimously.
Some bills have honored certain groups, such as a pair of laws enacted earlier this month that increased the pensions awarded to Medal of Honor recipients and authorized the U.S. Mint to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” U.S. Olympic ice hockey team.
There were other bills that must be passed annually National Defense Authorization Act or a so-called “continuing resolution” to fund the government at the previous year’s spending level because Congress has not passed a regular spending bill this year.
And there were some stand-alone bills that represented the priorities of Trump or his allies, such as the Laken Riley Act (requiring noncitizens accused of certain crimes to be detained without bond) or the Take It Down Act (requiring online platforms to remove non-consensual intimate images), supported by First Lady Melania Trump.
Data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University shows the House cast only 362 roll-call votes this year — the lowest number of votes in Congress’ first year this century, and about half their output from 2017, during Trump’s first term in office.
The Senate was slightly more active this year with 659 roll-call votes, more than any Senate during an odd-numbered year this century. But most of them were votes for nominees to federal agencies and the judiciary.
With just days to go before Americans will be hit with steeper health insurance premiums because Congress hasn’t expanded COVID-era subsidies for the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, Congress still hasn’t offered a solution to that looming problem.
When Ohio Republican David Joyce was asked to evaluate the record of the 119th Congress, he lamented the failure to address that problem. Washington Post.
“We dropped the ball badly by doing nothing on health care all year, knowing that the subsidy issue was going to be at the end of the year,” Joyce said. “We didn’t do anything bad about it.”
Joyce said Congress managed to pass Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill tax and spending package, which included many Trump-backed priorities, but was limited by Senate rules governing the party-line process, which allowed the upper chamber to consider the bill without a 60-vote filibuster.
This follows a pattern that first began in 2001, when then-President George W. Under Bush, the GOP-led Congress passed a massive tax cut bill that blew away the budget surplus left by the outgoing Clinton administration.
“I think we’ve created a big, beautiful bill,” he said.
“Beyond that, I can’t really say anything else about what we accomplished.”