trump pushed a huge unfunded tax break though and steals money from the defense budget to name 2 things.
Thank you for admitting Obama didn't run the debt up. Just kidding. Repubs have controlled the senate since 2015 and the house since 2011 up until the last midterms.
Congress controls appropriations, not the actual spending. This is the short version of a somewhat complicated process. I know you guys hate reading anything longer than a tweet. A case in point is trump spending defense money on his wall.
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A SPENDING BILL THE MONEY WAS ALREADY THERE.
Department of Defense is moving $1 billion out of a military personnel fund to be used to construct 57 miles of border “wall” — provoking strident (but impotent) objections from Democrats in Congress and setting up a big fight over next year’s Pentagon budget. On Monday night, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan issued a letter to the Department of Homeland Security informing them that he’d made $1 billion “available” for wall construction, by moving it into a military account for drug enforcement — one of the three pots of money the Trump administration is tapping under its declaration of national emergency. (The logic is that the wall will impede drug-smuggling corridors, though all available evidence suggests that the majority of drugs smuggled into the US through Mexico come via official ports of entry.)
Leaders of the congressional committees overseeing the Pentagon that same day got notification of $1 billion in “reprogramming” — shifting funds from one government agency or account to another — from the military-personnel fund to the drug-enforcement fund.
House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-WA) formally rejected that notice in a letter today: “The committee does not approve the use of Department of Defense funds to construct additional physical barriers,” he wrote.
But the letter was meaningless.
As Smith himself acknowledged while questioning Shanahan in an oversight hearing Tuesday, the request was unilateral — it wasn’t sent to Smith and Congress for approval, and it’s not something they have the ability to stop. The only thing that congressional Democrats can do now is to reduce the Pentagon’s ability to shift money around going forward — and that’s just what they’re threatening to do.
The Pentagon isn’t asking Congress to move money for the wall. It’s telling them.
In December, Trump allowed the federal government to partially shut down as a way to pressure Congress to give him $5.7 billion in funding for physical barriers on the US-Mexico border. Congress won that standoff, ultimately giving him only $1.375 billion — but he instead declared a national emergency, using executive action to unlock billions more in wall funding from other government funds.
Yes, the uneducated once again use all CAPs to draw attention (that mommy and daddy never gave you) to themselves and to reconfirm their uneducated status.
Hang in there short guy. At least your posts aren't completely stupid and moronic. Little bb's gotchas usually aren't (I said usually instead of never because he might have actually had one).
No matter how smart you think you are, you aren't smart enough to check facts before you talk shit.
Tone it down until you get it right.
Originally Posted by Munchmasterman
YOU GOT IT WRONG AGAIN AND ALWAYS.
WHEN YOU DIG YOURSELF INTO A HOLE...STOP DIGGING MUNCHY
View Larger
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress The House Appropriations Committee in 1918 featuring (from left to right) future Secretary of State James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, former Speaker Joseph Cannon of Illinois, Chairman J. Swagar Sherley of Kentucky, future Speaker Frederick Gillett of Massachusetts, future Secretary of War James W. Good of Iowa, and future Speaker Joseph Byrns of Tennessee.
Congress—and in particular, the House of Representatives—is invested with the “power of the purse,” the ability to tax and spend public money for the national government.
^^^^^READING AND COMPREHENSION TO YOU IS NONEXISTENT DIPSHIT!!
Massachusetts’
Elbridge Gerry said at the Federal Constitutional Convention that the House “was more immediately the representatives of the people, and it was a maxim that the people ought to hold the purse-strings.”
YOU DON'T LIKE ALL CAPS SO THAT IS WHY I DO IT.
YOU NOT ONLY TALK SHIT...YOU'RE FULL OF IT.
Originally Posted by gnadfly
