President Trump slammed Ben Sasse Monday morning, calling him a "RINO" and claiming he's “gone rogue” after the GOP senator labeled his coronavirus economic relief executive actions "unconstitutional slop."
"RINO Ben Sasse, who needed my support and endorsement in order to get the Republican nomination for Senate from the GREAT State of Nebraska, has, now that he’s got it (Thank you President T), gone rogue, again," Trump tweeted.
“RINO” stands for Republican In Name Only.
“This foolishness plays right into the hands of the Radical Left Dems!” Trump added.
The president’s tweet criticizing Sasse, R-Neb., comes after he issued a statement in response to the executive actions Trump signed over the weekend in an attempt to break the stalemate in negotiations between Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill over the fourth coronavirus stimulus relief package.
“The pen-and-phone theory of executive lawmaking is unconstitutional slop,” Sasse said in a statement over the weekend. “President Obama did not have the power to unilaterally rewrite immigration law with DACA, and President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the payroll tax law.”
Sasse added: “Under the Constitution, that power belongs to the American people acting through their members of Congress.”
Trump's executive actions included $400 per week in supplemental unemployment aid — a replacement of the program passed under the CARES Act earlier... (Read more)
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