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Re: Pelosi teases gun control emergency declaration by future Dem President

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:49 pm
by KLB
mojo84 wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:04 pm Will he be spending unappropriated money or redirecting money appropriated for other less important or less urgent causes?
Either way we are destroying the principle that Congress controls the purse strings. When presidents can spend what they want on what they want despite Congress, our system of government is shot.

Re: Pelosi teases gun control emergency declaration by future Dem President

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:51 pm
by mojo84
KLB wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:49 pm
mojo84 wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:04 pm Will he be spending unappropriated money or redirecting money appropriated for other less important or less urgent causes?
Either way we are destroying the principle that Congress controls the purse strings. When presidents can spend what they want on what they want despite Congress, our system of government is shot.
You may find this of interest. Trump isn't making the rules up as he is going along.

www.lawfareblog.com/how-congress-and-pr ... l-possible

Re: Pelosi teases gun control emergency declaration by future Dem President

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:47 pm
by Vol Texan
mojo84 wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:51 pm
KLB wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:49 pm
mojo84 wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:04 pm Will he be spending unappropriated money or redirecting money appropriated for other less important or less urgent causes?
Either way we are destroying the principle that Congress controls the purse strings. When presidents can spend what they want on what they want despite Congress, our system of government is shot.
You may find this of interest. Trump isn't making the rules up as he is going along.

www.lawfareblog.com/how-congress-and-pr ... l-possible
Wow. Interesting read. It seems that he’s not quite the ‘shoot from the hip’ president that some think he is.