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Congress already passed laws approving these expenditures which the president is supposed to execute on, also as per the Constitution. Congress has currently cr
by lovich 3y ago
Congress already passed laws approving these expenditures which the president is supposed to execute on, also as per the Constitution. Congress has currently created a situation where they are demanding that certain activities are created and acted on, and are simultaneously refusing to agree to fund them. The 14ths wording seems pretty clear that the American government is required to pay its bills. If Congress didn’t want to have these bills they shouldn’t have approved the programs.
- rayiner 3y ago> The 14ths wording seems pretty clear that the American government is required to pay its bills. It clearly doesn't say anything about "bills." Section 4 says: > The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. The distinction between "debt" and "expenses" is clear and longstanding. Even in the middle ages people would be able to tell you the difference between the crown repaying borrowed money and the crown paying expenses: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5349&context=open_access_etds https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic....