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It’s not solvable. Because even if you make great progress; someone like a criminal president comes along and spends it all on favors. True story.
by gmerc 3y ago
It’s not solvable. Because even if you make great progress; someone like a criminal president comes along and spends it all on favors. True story.
- Perceval 3y agoThe President does not have power of the purse. The House proposes a budget. The President can't spend beyond what Congress approves, and can't really decline to spend anything that Congress has approved (i.e. "impoundment").
- gmerc 3y agoThat’s where theory and practice diverge Right right because the Republican party ever even once denied Trump what he wanted before 6/01
- koolba 3y ago> Because even if you make great progress; someone like a criminal president comes along and spends it all on favors. That’s always a possibility, but as we’ve seen with the recent attempt to spend $500B to pay off student loans, the SCOTUS does a decent job of stopping the truly egregious.