The Republican chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee said the only power Congress has regarding efforts to streamline the federal bureaucracy through job cuts by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is to complain.

“This is an executive branch decision; who works for the executive branch is determined by the president of the United States,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Tuesday in a conference call with reporters, according to RadioIowa. “The Constitution says all executive power of the federal government shall be vested, and that’s the word that’s used, vested in the office of the presidency.”

Grassley was referring to Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution that states: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”

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