does this answer your question ?It’s an excellent idea. The House control the purse, I never understood why they don’t use it.
Cruz and Lee tried to show them how last October, but the GOP-E undercut them.
does this answer your question ?“The House control the purse, I never understood why they don’t use it.”
How exactly would that work?
I imagine it would happen through the appropriation bill that starts in the house that contains money for whatever agency the house did not want to fund.
So let’s say they stop funding agency x. This has to go to the senate. The democrats there don’t pass the bill. Usually these appropriation bills contain money for lots of things including stuff that the house wants to fund. So the senate decides that since there is no money for agency x, they’re not going to pass the bill, and the government shuts down and they of course blame the repubs and the press makes a huge deal of it and scares the crap out of the srs and welfare recipients and government employees and government contractors, and low information voters. The repubs having no stomach or balls for this, retreat with their tails between their legs.
Is this the way it would play out?
So to summarize....
With the current makeup of our congress and media “power of the purse” translates to “shutting down the government”.
With the current makeup of our population “shutting down the government” translates to a huge backlash for the repubs in public opinion and the voting booth, and smiles in the dems faces.
Did I miss anything?
I never understood why they don’t use it
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Weak kneed Republicans. No spine.
Oh I could see it now. They would play it up good. Obama and his ugly wife would have their two kids with rags as clothes, messed up hair and have them look dirty......show them on TV and say.....the Republicans are taking money from my children. In a normal world that would not work, but today it would be a disaster.