"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."
Article I, Section 9, Clause 7
I wonder if MPC is legally money?
What about in the case of a matter of Nation Security as outlined by Trumps human trafficking Executive Order?
if the troops don’t get paid,,, does that mean govvies don’t get paid??? I crack myself up.
Nope. Article I, Section 8, on powers of congress:
12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
Congress can put out bills that allocate funding for agencies which would continue past the end of the budget term, but there is a special constitutional carve out for the military.
Why? The founders were afraid of the potential abuse a Standing Army would be put to. Historically, the Standing Army was also used to enforce the will of the King. If the founders looked at today's government, they would have added the stipulation that ALL federal "enforcement" agencies are considered elements of a "standing army", and that NO funding for any federal employee charged with enforcement of federal law or regulation could exist for longer than the two year budget term.
That does not seem to apply if a president wants to send hundreds of billions of dollars to terrorist regimes.