Our President might as well notify the Treasury Dept. To start issuing “Military Defence Bonds”. That is the ONLY way he will ever finance our fighting men. This Congress of traitors will stall until our Military is without supplies.
Yes, that appears to be their game plan.
The Democrats are determined to destroy our military, and not funding our military suits them to a T.
The Constitution, Article I, Section 8:
The Congress shall have power ... to pay the debts and provide for the common defense ... of the United States...;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
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To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
[and] To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces....
Section 9.
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No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
The Treasury Department cannot issue “military defense bonds” or any other debt borrowed on the credit of the United States unless the Congress first authorizes it. Even if the Treasury did issue such bonds, the Congress would have to pass a law appropriating those funds to the common defense before the Army could draw them from the Treasury. Any alternative funding mechanism must meet constitutional muster and therefore must not enter into the federal Treasury at any time.
Unless the Congress has passed a law prohibiting it, private individuals for example could give money, civilian weaponry, rations, fuel, vehicles, and supplies directly to individual troops, perhaps coordinated by a non-tax-exempt corporation to ensure equitable distribution. Even then, only the Congress can raise and support armies.
Until the expiry of this Congress, the military must act under the expectation of zero additional appropriations and consequently must make extremely limited and judicious use of the limited resources at its disposal, cognizant of the potential for other enemies of the United States to make war against us because of the weakness and depletion of our arsenals.