Posted on 02/13/2019 12:03:45 AM PST by Based Newsman
Congressmen Tom Reed and John Garamendi argue over President Trump using $23 billion in alternative funds to build the wall.
https://youtu.be/cx0EDsovFoo
Trump tweeted in the last few hours
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1095469449052868610
Will be getting almost $23 BILLION for Border Security. Regardless of Wall money, it is being built as we speak!
Soldiers aren’t cheap.
I doubt the searching will be done. NeverTrumpers and Trolls tend to ignore facts that contradict their biases.
Thats right. Congress appropriates money for specific departments. It cannot be moved around.
From Census article posted on FR today:
These states are poised to lose seats:
New York will lose two, from 27 to 25;
Alabama will lose one, from seven to six;
California will lose one or remain even, from 53 to 52 or no change;
Michigan will lose one, from 14 to 13;
Minnesota will lose one or remain even, from eight to seven or no change;
Ohio will lose one, from 16 to 15;
Pennsylvania will lose one, from 18 to 17;
Rhode Island will lose one, from two to one; and
West Virginia will lose one, from three to two.
That wasn't taxpayers' money.
Which congress approved the billions Obama gave to Iran which in turn Iran used to sponsor terrorists who killed Americans?
If Trump is guilty of anything it was in trusting people like Paul Ryan.
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Trusting people is the hallmark of a trustworthy person. Politicians, on the other hand, are most UNTRUSTWORTHY people on the planet. And therein lies President Trump’s problem, and consequently America’s problem.
That wasn’t taxpayers’ money.
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There’s money in our country that doesn’t belong to the taxpayers? I didn’t know that.
“Hes NOT going to expect Congress, from here on out to deliver anything the American people need.”
That’s about the size of it. Trump did manage to get Congress to go from $0 to $1.3B. So Trump takes their money and gets the rest from alternative sources.
Yet another paper on the topic
Scholars disagree on the extent to which Congress may use appropriations limitations to control the Presidents exercise of discretion in carrying out his or her duty to execute the law, especially in the area of national securitythough all agree that Congress may not, under the guise of exercising its power of the purse, interfere with indispensable executive (or judicial) functions. Nor may the President frustrate congressional mandates by refusing to spend directed funds.
My point is, that it is not clear that your statement is necessarily correct. It remains quite unclear as to what powers the President has in directing funds, especially when national security is in question. We do know that Homeland security gives him power to erect walls to thwart drug smuggling for example.
It was Iranian money they had given us in a pre-revolution arms deal. We never delivered the arms but kept the money.
It never belonged to the US but we had impounded it.
Nice reply!
Yes, the devil is in the details... but the core concept is that the Legislature provides.
Why not include all captured drug monies towards monitoring, improving, security, and any other related issues connected to ALL U.S. borders and ALL ports of entry? If there are any future problems connected to any of the U.S. borders and to any of the U.S. ports of entry, then they need to be dealt with, asap! Ditto, actual welfare reforms, too!
Not to put too fine a point on it but president trump could declare a national emergency because somebody put pepperoni on his pizza and he could reallocate existing funds in the the trillions just to move that pepperoni. That’s exactly what Obama did and previous presidents... so guess what! this is one of those executive orders that they can repeal all they want to afterwords... it won’t remove the already buiklt walls.
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