The unlawfulness is the part that is newsworthy and incredibly frightening. That's the part that matters. If the executive can unilaterally decide to allocate

The unlawfulness is the part that is newsworthy and incredibly frightening. That's the part that matters. If the executive can unilaterally decide to allocate funds to wherever it wants while ignoring Congress, then Congress is no a coequal branch and our constitutional order is dead.