Funding bill may grant Trump, Musk more control over federal spending

The Washington Post ^ | March 14, 2025 | Jeff Stein

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The spending bill expected to pass the Senate on Friday could bolster President Donald Trump’s push to wrest power away from Congress, giving the administration even greater control over the budget as he seeks to shrink the federal government.

Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have aggressively pushed the legal limits of the president’s power over government spending, dismantling departments and eliminating hundreds, if not thousands, of federal functions without authorization by lawmakers. Although courts have blocked some of these moves, many congressional Democrats had hoped to use the deadline over government funding to force Republicans to reverse — or at least limit — the Trump administration’s unilateral cuts.

But the GOP-written spending bill, pushed through the House on a near party-line vote by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) earlier this week, could give Trump a freer hand to redirect funds as he sees fit, according to congressional Democrats and several nonpartisan budget experts.

Regular appropriations laws are agreed to with accompanying reports that detail with great specificity how money should be spent. In the last fiscal year, for instance, an appropriations law allocated $3.2 billion for Environmental Protection Agency operations, and the accompanying report specified amounts devoted to cleaning brownfields, ensuring clean air, carrying out environmental justice programs and many other functions.

The measure that the House passed this week, though, is what’s known as a “continuing resolution” that largely extends funding at existing levels and does not include the additional instructions from Congress. So while EPA will get the same $3.2 billion that Congress allocated to it earlier, the administration could repurpose funds from the specific programs they were intended to cover.

Democrats had hoped to include language in the bill requiring Trump to spend all the money in the measure and potentially thwart...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We owe Democrats a debt of gratitude for stealing the 2020 election and giving President Trump four years between terms to engineer their complete and total annihilation.

[madison10]

What good does it do with so many tyrannical judges?

[madison10]

Yes!

[READINABLUESTATE]

Don’t forget to thank the idiot and the drunk chick for losing.

[jeffersondem]

If the spending bill does pass it will be a bipartisan vote.

I just love the word bipartisan.

Own it democrats!

[gibsonguy]

We owe Democrats a debt of gratitude for stealing the 2020 “

Our country paid a awful price for it.

[clearcarbon]

"Funding bill may grant Trump, Musk more control over federal spending"

[frank ballenger]

So is it true a government shutdown would mean “essential employees” could be defined and then after it’s over, the non-essential employees would be out the door?

During the Covid lockdown in Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer made churches and synagogues close up but abortion centers and package liquor outlets were “essential” and could be open.
Abortions were “women’s health care” and the liquor brought a fortune of tax revenue to the state (with the excuse: sudden cutoff of liquor to alcohol users frequently causes violence in the home).

[Governor Dinwiddie]

You NAIL IT perfectly. Trump had 8 years of schooling between 2016 and 2024. They kicked him,
spit on him, tried to drag him down. But he kept getting up. He severed himself from the swamp
this time around. No more turncoats, spies, and saboteurs.

[frank ballenger]

Photo....

But the people who believe anything in WaPo are the real suckers.

[butlerweave]

Tyrannical judges should have to pay a price for making rulings just out of spite

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Our country paid a awful price for it.

If they had not stolen the 2020 election, President Trump's second term would have been pretty much like his first; some progress, but mainly fighting off their incessant attacks. When he left office they would have erased everything he had accomplished, tried him in one of their kangaroo courts, and sent him to prison for the rest of his life.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks go to the Clinton/Obama/Biden cadre for setting all the right precedents. Now it's just a matter of following their lawfare precedents and rounding up and jailing the lawless leftist attorneys and judges, trying them for the rest of the lives, one charge after another, and make sure they have a cellmate like the one Epstein had.

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[TexasGator]

“the non-essential employees would be out the door?”

They would be back in with back pay.

[gibsonguy]

You’re not wrong.

[lurk]

WaPo.

Catch their tears in a cup.

[frank ballenger]

Sadly true.

[lurk]

These low court judges will be shoved out of the way before Memorial Day.

[TexasGator]

“tried him in one of their kangaroo courts, and sent him to prison for the rest of his life.”

That was done to prevent him winning the next election.

If he had we’d a second term he could not run again and they would ignore him.

[gunnut]

1 billion of EPA money to reduce littering along the US-Mexico border. Building the wall will keep migrants from littering the landscape.