Pelosi teases gun control emergency declaration by future Dem President

[KLB]

Will he be spending unappropriated money or redirecting money appropriated for other less important or less urgent causes?

Either way we are destroying the principle that Congress controls the purse strings. When presidents can spend what they want on what they want despite Congress, our system of government is shot.

[mojo84]

Will he be spending unappropriated money or redirecting money appropriated for other less important or less urgent causes?

Either way we are destroying the principle that Congress controls the purse strings. When presidents can spend what they want on what they want despite Congress, our system of government is shot.

You may find this of interest. Trump isn't making the rules up as he is going along.

www.lawfareblog.com/how-congress-and-pr ... l-possible

[Vol Texan]

Will he be spending unappropriated money or redirecting money appropriated for other less important or less urgent causes?

Either way we are destroying the principle that Congress controls the purse strings. When presidents can spend what they want on what they want despite Congress, our system of government is shot.

You may find this of interest. Trump isn't making the rules up as he is going along.

www.lawfareblog.com/how-congress-and-pr ... l-possible

Wow. Interesting read. It seems that he’s not quite the ‘shoot from the hip’ president that some think he is.