LS, Is this of any count, or just more bloviating?
Bottom line, 14 months into his first term, Trump is finally putting together the team of leaders he should have had in the first place. Again, better late than never.
As I have said from the beginning, since he won the nomination, that Trump seems to have a singular talent for picking exceptional people and letting them do the job with minimal input or supervision. That's real leadership, instead of the usual micromanagers we get, or the cowards who blame their hirelings instead of taking responsibility themselves (The Buck Stops Here). I was hoping to watch this skill in action from Day One under Trump... and I've been shell-shocked at how many bad picks he made for the first year. Maybe he has finally remembered one of his best talents, and is finally putting it to good use... but I really wish he had been at his best in this regard from the beginning. Let's hope this trend only continues to accelerate.
Another strong signal that Omnibus bill money will be used for the wall, much to the chagrin of Amanda Carpenter and the Cruzettes.
>>>he is accepting the funds under the provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. This law also gives the President broad discretion in making decisions to refuse to spend funds that have been authorized by congress, as well as allowing him to reallocate spending priorities within the budgets of individual executive branch departments.
So if NPR is broadcasting on Monday morning and the NEA is open, then we can assume the President supports this spending?
All the liberal judges in the country are already crafting their decisions and awaiting the lawsuits.
I wish people would get off of this. The "Budget" is not something that Congress passes. It is the proposed spending by each agency, congressioal control line by congressional control line. The budget is then marked by the appropriations subcommittees - and that happened a long time ago.
Then an appropriation is passed - in normal order, which we haven't seen in a long time - in some eleven separate appropriations bills. An omnibus bills takes those 11 and staples them together and passes them all at once. It's a budget and it's legal and I wish folks would get way over the notion that there are "no controls" or the laws are not being followed or some such.
There is a budget, the Congress has appropriated money agains that budget (with some puts and takes that they put into law) and passed it and the President signed it.
Nothing is missing except care and wisdom, but that's a moral issue, not a legal one.
Yes, seize the DACA. I can live with 800,000 to 1million of these young people! Seize the issue! Solve it! Isolate it! Seize it! Make it ours!
Who cares he and his cohorts are proven liar already, McConnell and Ryan etc.
This law also gives the President broad discretion in making decisions to refuse to spend funds that have been authorized by congress, as well as allowing him to reallocate spending priorities...”
Meaningful only if Trump has learned to tell the courts to stuff it when necessary.
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Patriots, please consider that Pres. Trump can probably do more with $1.6 billion than corrupt Congress can do with $10 billion.
I think President Trump played the dems, media and the GOPe with the budget. I think Trump was acting big time at the signing ceremony. He was right about the Military being the overwhelming priority. We need to buy spare parts just as fast as industry can make them. Invocation of the 1985 law so he can move money and not spend money allocated are huge. Some dem sacred cows may be butchered. Stay tuned.
"The federal budgeting process is very complex and arcane [??? emphasis added], ..."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The joke is on us voters as usual. This is because the Founding States constitutionally required Congress to publish expenditures and receipts which it is not doing a good job of imo.
"Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time [emphasis added]."
"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
The states need to amend the Constitution to require all branches of fed government, however many branches there are, to publish the constitutional clauses which justify every official action for that branch of the government.
And failing to do so should result in automatic impeachment and removal from from office.
In fact, Congress should be constitutionally required to list the constitutional clauses that justify a given bill at the top of first page of every bill, regardless if bill never gets passed.
Patriots now need to be working with their state lawmakers to support Pres. Trump to lead the states to make his vision for MAGA and all the things mentioned above as permanent as possible by repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
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