The House holds the purse strings...for ALL *programs*...and authorizes funding, each year.
No, not for all programs. Some programs are continually funded through multi-year/no-year discretionary funds and/or mandatory funding provided within prior legislation.
If the House does not take explicit action to adjust, suspend, or repeal prior funding for those special programs, then that funding remains in effect. The House does not vote every year to continue funding Social Security and Medicare. Those programs have funding unless and until the House says they don't have funding anymore. That's how it works.
Is that multi-year thing in the constitution or just a gentlemen’s agreement?
So, in other words, they’re knowingly lying to the American people when they say social security checks won’t go out and our soldiers won’t be paid?
Why, the dirty, rotten basturds.