“I think we need to start naming all the federal agencies that fit this very statement and demanding their elimination.
Let me start with the Department of Education, the IRS and EPA.>
Well, they’re still funded through appropriations by the Congress, that is, by law, as the Constitution stipulates.
The court said words to the effect that the Congress cannot set up an agency with a funding source that is outside the appropriation process.
As I understand it there are agencies that are partially self-funded through fines collected going directly into their budgets and not appropriated by Congress, e.g. EPA, OSHA.
Is that constitutional without those funds first going through the Treasury and then being appropriated?