“It was an Omnibus Spending bill [which] is not the same as the Federal Budget. This bill is just a another Continuing Resolution to keep the government functioning”
Wikipedia says:
When Congress and the president fail to agree on and pass one or more of the regular appropriations bills, a continuing resolution can be passed instead. A continuing resolution continues the pre-existing appropriations at the same levels as the previous fiscal year (or with minor modifications) for a set amount of time.[
Once they change the conditions it makes it a new one without the same teeth as the old one.
There are over 1200 pages full of items that changed to conditions of the last appropriations bill. So what Fakipedia states is not applicable here.
>> continuing resolution continues the pre-existing appropriations <<
Well yes, but us slow thinkers need to be educated in the fact that the Omnibus Bill is not actually a budget — according to the constitutional experts around here.
These brilliant folks have magically found the word “budget” somewhere in the Constitution, and therefore they can prove to us that the POTUS is now empowered to spend defense appropriations on a border wall. The logic follows as night follows day.
Waste of bandwidth? We report, you decide.