Posted on 11/23/2024 5:05:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Congress can only “authorize” spending. It cannot demand that the money be spent.
Bkmk
I can’t be overdrawn! I still have checks left! — Congress
"FBI budget? I told 'em I impounded it!"
Sounds fun.
For example, Trump could hold up the money for those silly LCS things?
That’s a question.
And you can bet that, thanks to Republican knuckleheads not showing up for Senate votes this past week, there WILL be some Schumer judge that will overturn Trump’s impoundments.
hopefully, with the DOGE bit, they could also cull the workload. Since congress defines the roles of these agencies relatively minimally, with the agency itself filling the blanks, it should be easy to do.
E.g. - Congress passes a Department of Housing that must build houses for Americans.
The Department writes a reg that says, each house is to have 6 bedrooms and gold toilets. It hires employees to build the rooms and mine the gold.
Trump comes in and says, no, I’m culling the reg to say the houses have two bedrooms and use porcelain toilets. Bye-Bye 90% of the employees and required budget.
The houses continue to be built and since congress didn’t actually specify the house, the prez has faithfully executed the law.
It didn’t work for Nixon. Good luck with that.
In 1996 Congress passed the “Line Item Veto Act”.
Bill Clinton (!!!) actually used it to rein in some spending. In a subsequent lawsuit the Supreme Court found the law unconstitutional.
We have different times and a different court. Time to test it again.
Stare Decicis?
As long as there's no law requiring that particular vessel, yes it could be scrapped. I doubt congress ever has specified anything beyond saying "give us a navy" as far as actual boats go.
For myself, I don't see much use for VTOL. We already have helicopters and while it may have been a nice exercise in developing technology, as far as I know, they are superfluous.
Well both Chevron and Roe were overturned so that goes only so far.
Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin’
Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times, they are a-changin’
Thank you, Trump.
MORE! MORE! MORE!
“I will use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings,” Trump said when announcing his plan in June 2023.....
No wonder Congress has been melting down
Trump doesn’t care about the money some would say, I agree. But if you take away the money you away the power...from the bureaucracy.
Think of the benefits, first you slap our pathetic congress across the face, no money to pay worthless fed employees, lower taxes, the list is endless.
What a beautiful thing, cutting the legs off congress and the feds at the same tie.
A critical mass of Americans will finally understand that the Federal Government cannot be fixed at the ballot box.
The constitution also says that one of the primary jobs of the House of Representatives is to pass a budget. It does not say it should have an omnibus bill that just keeps the allotment the same as the year before at a higher percent.
This will be a seminal court ruling - one for the ages
Too many FReepers appear to think the solution is to just elect any republican.
In washington DC, the democrat and republican party are just two cheeks on the same a$$.
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