So then why can’t the house act alone then if they control the purse strings?
Why does it have to even bother with the wimps in the senate?
The senate has to approve bills and the president has to sign them into law, but appropriation bills must ORIGINATE in the house. If the house wants to deny funding for any provision of law, they simply do not pass an appropriations bill funding it and there’s not a damn thing the senate or president can do—except throw a hissy fit.