2) 2. Once Congress allocates money, their job is oversight of the money being spent. They don't spend the money and have no say HOW it gets spent as long as it's spent legally. That's their job to monitor with oversight.
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1) Let's talk about what the President can and can't do for this Omnibus Bill. There's a lot of discussion both ways so let's examine how money gets allocated & spent in the US Government: 1. Congress allocates money to be spent. The President spends the allocated money.
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3) 3. Once the President is given the money with the instructions to spend it, he has a number of choices to make in spending it. There are some rules he has to follow & some of the money is fungible and some isn't.
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4) 4. However there are some other factors that are in play here. One of them is that the President has declared a Human Rights Emergency AND has notified Congress that he's invoking the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 5. This opens up new options.
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5) 6. By making these two declarations President Trump has just communicated that he has the authority to NOT spend any funds he doesn't deem necessary and will return them to the US Treasury. So, funds for Planned Parenthood? He can simply not allocate the funds.
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6) 7. Also, these declarations make some funds fungible. For instance if he determines that building a Wall on the Southern Border is a defense against Human Trafficking? He can move funds from anywhere else in the Defense Dept Allocation & simply build the Wall.
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7) 8. Congress is powerless to stop cash reallocations on an omnibus bill AND cannot stop the DOD from taking measures under a declared Emergency. 9. Despite their language in the Omnibus Bill about the Border Wall, it is trumped by the State of Emergency that Trump declared.
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8) So in summary - This will go to the Courts. Congress will sue the President over the Border Wall. But here's how it will play out - Congress and the President are co-equal branches with different functions. Congress allocates. The President spends.
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9) The President has National Security as his Primary Responsibility and it's his job to use whatever funds and declarations he needs to for that job. No Court in this Nation (except corrupt on the take Judges) would EVER rule against a President for exercising that authority.
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10) In the end the Supreme Court (yes, that's where it will end) will fully VALIDATE the President's Constitutional Authority & the Wall will be built. /end
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John. You've really done your homework on this one. Thanks for the REASSURANCE. Maybe I OVERREACTED. My mind is at ease.
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We all did. I was very upset till I saw the moves he was making under the table. I've worked for Government for 30 years and I've never seen ANYONE making the moves he's making right now. He's a Genius.
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He also finds the best minds to help. Mulvaney, Mnuchin etc.
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This has got Mulvaney's fingerprints all over it...
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I like Mulvaney & no doubt his press conferences are entertaining; however, shouldn’t he have done a better job in this so that all of these “back door” moves didn’t need to made & eventually argued before the US SC? I am Interested in your thoughts on this. Excellent job BTW!
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Thanks. Well what we've got here is a bunch of broke Democrats and they saw the Omnibus as a way to refill their slush funds. The way this worked out is Trump gave them their Pork in exchange for a huge Defense outlay. Now that it's been allocated Trump is going to pull the pork.
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And make a sandwich in the process. Get it? Time will tell. Nevertheless, I am still hopeful and still all in on team Trump!
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Lol - Exactly.
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Wasting your time on fantasies is not constructive. Trump's the President, not the King. Ignoring the reality on how our system works, to put forth 'feel good' nonsense, hurts the efforts of 'we the people' to address the real post-constitutional tyranny we face.
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I don't agree. Congress wrote the Laws and Trump is using them to our advantage. Wait till he starts using 150 year old statutes that have been buried in cobwebs for 100 years. That's really going to freak you out.
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That sounds interesting! Could you expand a little bit more on that point? Mike what laws from 150 years ago?
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The body of laws that Congress has passed goes back to 1789. There are many laws that were passed Centuries ago that are still on the books.
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Great, what does that have to do w/the evisceration of our constitution via this horrific Republican budget spending bill?- NOTHING! Please stop posting me ignorant nonsense. You claim to support
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I'll post on my own thread whenever I want to. I'm sure you've got better things to do than mess around on a thread of some small fry like me. God Bless.
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Can't start his own thread, no one will notice. Conserrvative should come out of the handle he's posting. Whether he likes it or not, you're right, he's wrong. Trump is a genius and he's only just begun.
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