Posted on 07/03/2023 7:24:28 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The convoluted congressional budget process has few fans. But the 1974 legislation that created today’s system did have one virtue: It reined in Richard Nixon’s claims that the president could simply refuse to spend congressionally appropriated money by “impounding” funds whenever he felt like it, as Kevin Kosar explained in Politico:
Presidents since the founding had [refused to spend funds], including Lyndon Johnson. It seldom was a big deal, so long as the amounts were small, the rationales for impoundment were sound, and appropriators were consulted. Nixon, however, didn’t keep it small: He impounded tens of billions of dollars, often to gut programs he did not like. Gallingly, Caspar Weinberger, his deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, told Congress the Constitution empowered the president to decide whether to spend money. All of which precipitated a constitutional crisis, since the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse.
The 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act killed off the Nixonian abuse of impoundment, leaving future presidents with very limited power to cancel or delay funds appropriated by Congress. A besieged and distracted Tricky Dick signed the legislation shortly before the Watergate scandal forced his resignation.
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We should get rid of Nixon’s EPA.
Biden just tried to circumvent Congress. Is the left trying to deflect?
What do you call the trick Congress has used to unconstitutionally steal power from the states and the people?
HOLD ON! Congress want’s to STEAL power from the Supreme Court! Where’s that article?
Right - Congress’ did a TRICK to steal power from the Executive.
Impoundment is not a Nixon trick. It existed for a long time prior to Nixon.
I thought Trump was literally Hitler. Now he’s Nixon?
Yup.
Ed knows President Trump’s plans. That’s some great investigative reporting!
How does this fool know Trump’s plans?
I just hate RATs, you know?
Uh, yeah the Nixon trick. Fidiots!
Wow. Trump isn’t even President yet, and they are already worrying about it.
If congress had not acted then the Supreme Court would have acted. However, that’s not necessary. The Constitution insists that all spending bills originate in the House. The House mearelly has to include a clause forcing the president to spend all of the appropriated funds in any budget bill. The president can either sign a budget or do without any money. When a president signs such a bill it becomes law.
Ntice how the Dims/Left/progressiveas are always intellectually dishonest hypocrites, who yell and scream about “imperial” beahvoir of a President, except when it is one of their own.
BTTT
And visa versa - hence the utterly unconstitutional "Fourth Branch" of the feds - the Regulatory/Administrative State.
And BOTH the legislative and executive branches have stolen the Constitution and our Free Constitutional Republic from the States and the people.
It's all done with smoke and mirrors while the American people were asleep. Are they waking up now? In time?
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