Russ Vought turned in a rock-solid permanence yesterday in his nomination appearance before the Senate.

But that didn’t prevent The New York Times from launching its usual tirade. The Times wrote:

But it IS true that executive power is vested in the president, which in no way diminishes the power of the other branches.

Vought gets this “outlandish” idea from Article II of the Constitution, which says:

“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”

The problem has been that the left has created an unconstitutional fourth branch of government called the regulatory state – which in recent years has been accountable to no one. The New York Times and Dems in Congress want to keep it that way.

Now that the Supreme Court has recently and rightly reined in these ABC agency powers in the Chevron, we hope Trump (and Russ Vought) uses Executive Branch authority to shrink the $1.8 trillion regulatory state.

In the meantime, we hope the editors at The New York Times require civics courses for their reporters.