[nitzy]

This is a serious question. Can anyone please give me a serious answer?

What is to stop Obama from enacting ANY POLICY HE WANTS by executive action and tying the funding to a department?

For the life of me, I can't figure out what happened here.

What am I missing?

1. Obama signs Executive Order and somehow ties it's implementation to DHS funding
2. House passes DHS funding without Executive Order.
3. Senate does nothing.
4. In fear of shutting down DHS, the House passes DHS funding which includes Executive Order.

How in the hell has any Congress in history stopped any President from doing whatever he pleased?

[Principled]

believe it or not, it was the repubs who tied it to DHS.

i’m not kidding.

[itsahoot]

How in the hell has any Congress in history stopped any President from doing whatever he pleased?

First you get some morons to break into an office looking for some blackmail porn and then you get a new president.