CONGRESS writes the budget. CONGRESS passes the budget. The president does NOT have a line item veto. He either passes it or vetoes it. If he vetoes it, CONGRESS stops paying the bills for everything. It just doesn’t work!
There needs to be a constitutional amendment to permit the line item veto.
What exactly is wrong with Congress stopping paying the bills for everything?
I’m not afraid of a “government shutdown”. Shut it down permanently.