Posted on 06/04/2025 7:25:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) said that President Donald Trump had been “flagrantly violating” the law with cuts to government through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
DeLauro said, “Elon Musk knew nothing about impoundment or about the appropriations process. And I categorize empowerment as stealing, they are stealing these funds. and the president knows even less about those two issues.”
She continued, “It’s in the Constitution, the Constitution in Article I Section 9, Clause 7, says that the power of the purse resides in the in the Congress, and there is no inherent authority that he has. The president had or Musk had in doing this. So it’s all in violation of the law.”
DeLauro added, “I’m the ranking member on appropriations. I’ve been the chair under no circumstances. I don’t care if any president, I’m not willing to give this power to, you know, President Obama, President Clinton, anyone, and not certainly not Donald Trump or George Bush or any. It is fundamentally our jurisdiction. Understanding appropriations, when those bills are crafted, it has to be bipartisan, bicameral, if not, the president can’t sign and the government shuts down. So the bills that we fashion have bicameral and bipartisan support, and they’re signed into law. It’s not a directive, it’s not a suggestion, it is the law of the land which they are flagrantly violating every single day with the impoundment of funds.”
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Shut up stupid people.
Doubt DOGE has the authority to shut off any money.
It can certainly inform the relevant agency, but she’s mostly right. The money comes from Congress. The executive is charged with responsibility to spend it.
I clearly remember getting screwed by the Dems when active duty when they “sequestered” my **already approved pay raise**.
Need to control inflation don’t ya know....
Spare me the drama and cut the damn waste already!
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Quoting the Constitution?
Good...now do Article I Section 8.
Anything this simpering communist from CT says is always a mixture of venom, lies, and the results of too many illicit drugs in younger years...
The hate is strong with this one grasshopper.
Demon possessed, demented blue haired banshee
What kind of an accident was Ms(?) DeLauro involved in?
Anything to do with locomotives?
Some body convinced her that cobalt blue bangs and oversized kelly green bi-focals were just the thing to set her On Fire!
Steampunk.
How about your violation of the law when you rented out the basement in your D.C. home to Rahm Emanuel for five years, when the house was listed as a single family dwelling and no renting was allowed.
Another Democrat freak fruitcake of which the Democrats seem to have an endless supply.
Mad at the world because the high school quarterback turned down her Sadie Hawkins dance invite.
If I came across that in my house in the dead of night, I would open fire.
“WTF is that thing??”
Keith Richards in drag?
That person can ESAD.
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