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> At some level, someone needs to have discretion on which grants to award and not award Then that person should not be a politician or political appointee who
by DrillShopper 1y ago
> At some level, someone needs to have discretion on which grants to award and not award
Then that person should not be a politician or political appointee who judges on the merits and not on the votes it will bring.
- prasadjoglekar 1y agoIf the funds are disbursed from the public Treasury, it is very much a political decision. You can put some intermediary bureaucrats to create a face of objectivity, but it's a political decision at it's core.
- freejazz 1y agoDo you understand that Congress has the power of the purse and the President does not?
- prasadjoglekar 1y agoSnark aside, Yes I do. Congress if fully capable of being specific when it wants to and delegating to the executive when it doesn't. For example they required the A10 airplane to continue to operate. They didn't specify the caliber of bullets to use.
- DrillShopper 1y agoFunds duly allocated by the Legislature, which means they must be spent in service of what the Legislature allocated them for. Presidents cannot impound funds since the Impoundment Control Act, so either they need to spend them or convince Congress to change that allocation. We can argue about the basis for terminating the grants until the cows come home, but this administration through DOGE has made it clear that they're not otherwise going to be spending this money, which is something the president cannot do. Clawing back and terminating grants without due process is what dictators do; it's the opposite of what supporting and defending the Constitution is.
- codexb 1y agoAh, the so-called benevolent dictator. The magical philosopher king to deliver us all from tyranny.