Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️
President Trump wants to send to Congress a chunk of the DOGE federal funding cuts that Congress, in a properly functioning democracy, should have voted on in the first place. Its called a rescissions package, and it is a mechanism for Congress to vote to approve a small sliver of the cuts that the executive branch has already enacted without the legislative branch’s permission, as well as a request to, essentially, end all federal support for PBS and NPR, the nation’s most-well-known public media organizations. As my colleague Emine Yücel reported this week, Trump’s constitutionally backwards approach to a pretty standard executive branch-legislative branch request is designed to give an air of legitimacy to the whole DOGE operation, while also allowing Trump to get some revenge on the news media.
