What do you make of this?
Looks like he’s claiming ???? Money
21 (4) The amounts repurposed under this subsection are 22 designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 23 pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget 24 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and shall be 25 available only if the President subsequently so designates 1434 1 all such amounts and transmits such designations to the 2 Congress.
... and he did.
GLOBAL HEALTH ACTIVITIESSEC. 7058. (a) IN GENERAL.--Funds appropriated by titles III and IV of this Act that are made available for bilateral assistance for child survival activities or disease programs including activities relating to research on, and the prevention, treatment and control of, HIV/AIDS may be made available notwithstanding ...
There is some detail. I think the grand total under 7058(d), the only repurposed funds, is 145 million dollars.
Such a similar letter was sent by Zero
Different designation, but must give the POTUS flexibility