Rush Limbaugh said this Friday in an answer to a caller who said he was lost faith in Trump because he signed this bill:
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Bill?
What “Bill”?
I’d picked up this thread this morning fully expecting a Mardi Gras parade of ‘rats/NeverTrumpers celebrating their giant Gotcha and what do I see?
Not
a
mention
So, I went digging.
First, according to https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-joint-resolution/31/text that bill still shows as “Sent to President” which would indicate to the casual observer that it HAS NOT been signed.
Or maybe somebody in Congress just wanted to kinda hide the whole thing until they figure their next play after Trump dropped this signing statement in their laps:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-joint-resolution/31/text
I’m not a lawyer but to these old eyes I can’t recall a more scholarly, nuanced and measured takedown of a bunch of pompous [BLEEPS].
Read through it yourself. Pass it along to your friends.
Have some popcorn handy when the lid comes off this thing.
...somebody named Pelosi might already be having seizures.
...
Maybe we all get a civics lesson on how pocket vetoes work.???
“Maybe we all get a civics lesson on how pocket vetoes work.???”
Not according to the first few lines of that statement:
Statement by the President
Immigration
***Issued on: February 15, 2019***
Today, I have signed into law H.J. Res. 31, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019” (the “Act”)
OTOH, everybody reading this is going to get a Cliff Notes Special on f’in with The Man.
My particular favorite lines:
“Numerous provisions purport, in certain circumstances, to condition the authority of officers to spend or reallocate funds on the approval of congressional committees (Division B, sections 702, 706, and 716(a), (b); Division E, sections 403 and 409; Division G, sections 188, 405, and 406). These are impermissible forms of congressional aggrandizement in the execution of the laws other than by the enactment of statutes. My Administration will make appropriate efforts to notify the relevant committees before taking the specified actions and will accord the recommendations of such committees all appropriate and serious consideration, but it will not treat spending decisions as dependent on the approval of congressional committees.”
....wordiest job of telling somebody to GFY I’ve ever seen, although that bit about “..impermissible forms of congressional aggrandizement..” is going to leave marks.