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Trump warns he'll adjourn Congress to make recess appointments. How would that work?

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President Trump is mulling whether to use his constitutional powers to adjourn Congress to make recess appointments.

No president has ever exercised his constitutional power to adjourn the two chambers.

The move would launch the executive and legislative branches into uncharted constitutional territory.

The president raised the prospect of recess appointments in an advisory way to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson .

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