> Also important: money is fungible. Yes and no. Congress can specifically prevent agencies from spending money on given activities with riders on budget bills

> Also important: money is fungible. Yes and no. Congress can specifically prevent agencies from spending money on given activities with riders on budget bills. Evading such a ban would be a bigger deal than the current story, if only because congress would have explicitly stated tha such activities may not be conducted with congressionally provided funds. Assuming word of the program got out.