Been done. Unconstitutional.
Clinton v. City of New York, 1998.
Takes a Constitutional amendment.
"In Clinton v. City of New York, the Supreme Court found that the line-item veto violated the Presentment Clause of the Constitution, which says that the president does not have the power to unilaterally amend or repeal legislation passed by Congress."
You’re correct. I remember CONgress kicking it around.
I agree, except not for an amendment that would give the president line item veto power.
Consider that most post-17th Amendment ratification bills dealing with domestic policy and domestic spending for the last 80+ years are probably unconstitutional anyway, such bills not only based on stolen state powers, but also state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, such revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
So instead of an amendment to the Constitution that gives the president line item veto power, the amendment needs to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment imo.
The 16th Amendment can disappear too.