The House controls the purse strings. Obama can’t veto something that isn’t passed - no funding for implementing health care, for example (if that makes sense, trying to describe a double negative...)
True. I guess the Dem Congress didn’t pass a budget, so the Pubs don’t have to either.
What would get the economy going is major spending reductions AND major tax reductions. The tax reductions would have to be signed. Ass would probably veto them, but that would put him in a pretty bad situation politically.
Your post prompts a question about the differences between our respective nations’ constitutions. Here in Canada, all financial matters must be initiated in the House of Commons, which is our equivalent to your House of Representatives. Our Senate must ratify, but cannot initiate, any legislation involving revenue or spending, which is the tradition under English Common Law. Has this been retained in the US? The reason I’m asking is that it is quite likely that after the next election the GOP will control the House but the Democrats may still have control of the Senate.