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Congress controls the purse, not the President and his increasingly political departments. If they want to change the law, they should vote on a bill first.
by birdyrooster 6y ago
Congress controls the purse, not the President and his increasingly political departments. If they want to change the law, they should vote on a bill first.
- TimesOldRoman 6y agoIt seems that the rules and common law interpretations that we are used to no longer apply to the degree that we imagined.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Congress controls the purse, not the President Congress authorizes spending but the executive actually does it and, in practice, can fail to do it selectively. If not statutorily authorized, this can be illegal, but the fact that it's illegal doesn't mean a whole lot until someone uses that fact to force it to be undone, which can take quite a long time. > If they want to change the law, they should vote on a bill first. What if they just want to arbitrarily exercise power and don’t give a flip about the content of the law, what should they do then?