Hey, if a Prez. Hillary could plan to get rid of the Bill of Rights through executive order, then ...
I wonder what effect there would be if some enterprising young kid like the guy who made the obama joker posters plastered some posters on the doors of urban planned parenthoods that say things like “funded by the DNC and Crime Busters of America to provide safer streets for liberal white hipsters”
Obama did daca which would result in cost. So if you can fund, you can defund. Alternatively, you can keep the funding but prohibit treasury from writing the check.
Probably not. I'm sure there is a black-robed tyrant in Hawaii, Rhode Island, or Washington State who will issue a nationwide order forbidding such an action. It's right there in the Penumbra of the Constitution of the United States - "Whatever the Democrats whine for on any given day is the law of the land."
Can’t he reduce PP money by an amount that PP spends on political advertising of any kind?
I think that’s what president Bush did.
Unless Congress changes the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, a president probably can’t halt funds more than temporarily. But the point should be for a president to force a roll count vote in Congress on funds for noxious purposes.
Pres Trump may take a page out of Ronald Reagan’s playbook (a move upheld by the USSC):
Opponents of abortion are urging the administration to bring back Reagan-era abortion restrictions on federal family planning dollars that would target Planned Parenthood.
The regulations would ban organizations that receive family planning dollars under the Title X Family Planning Program, which funds organizations providing services like birth control to low-income women and men, from promoting abortion or referring patients for abortions.
Former President Reagan first issued the regulations, which Democrats describe as a “domestic gag rule,” in 1988.
They also require a physical and financial separation of Title X funding recipients from abortion providers.
Yes. Next question.
“Yes. Next question.”
Which ought to be, I guess: “Should he?”
An that leads us to go both ways. Yes, if he wants to annoy his enemies and the press (I repeat myself); no, if he wants to avoid looking like Obama, ruling by fiat.
$500,000,000 of taxpayers’ money stolen so as to have murdering of babies and, then, chopping them into parts for sell to the highest bidder. Sick! Pathetic! Criminal! Murder!
As aprincipled conservative, I hate to see a President usurp Congress’s role. Congress needs to do this. Trump has his bully pulpit, but he should not be funing or de-funding private companies.