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Any executive order is necessarily an unfunded mandate, because it's issued by the executive without involvement of Congress, which alone can pass actual laws t

Any executive order is necessarily an unfunded mandate, because it's issued by the executive without involvement of Congress, which alone can pass actual laws that fund things: > No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law… — U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 9, clause 7

spiralx 5y ago
There is a discretionary budget allocated to the executive that can be used for funding EOs, although it's not huge when looked at relative to the budget - $800m a year is what's in my head but I could be wrong.
- JasonFruit 5y ago
  Yes, I suppose, but given the scope of executive orders of late, that funding is not that significant. (Imagine saying that about almost a billion dollars!)