What to Know About Trump’s Battle With
Watchdog Agency Over Federal Spending

Seems like the combination of wimpy Republicans, overzealous Democrat judges and inept SCOTUS once again stymies the will of the people. Without knowing the legal or by the book way around, perhaps the mess could be attacked on the basis of Congress failing to pass a budget instead of relying on continuing resolutions and then find a way to put in the line-tem veto. The uncompromised Republicans, few as they are, need to grow a spine and start working FOR and WITH the President. They could have the Dems on the ropes for the midterms if they would avoid shooting holes in the bottom of their own boats.

Quick strides must be taken to identify the various Notsee "leeches" within the Government Accountability Office(GAO).

Well......if a Democrat president was attempting to curtail spending on programs that Republicans support, spending authorized by congress, we would all be singing a different tune. The problem is a dysfunctional congress, where honor is a punchline. At some point, we either to scrap the Republic and start over again, or face a national dissolution.

maga will flourish when the political crime families and tax- stealing gangsters in the universities ect are imprisoned and their ill-gotten gains returned to the public fisc. the evildoing continues, cos the evil doers are allowed to continue and skate-by evil maga -hating rinos who fail to pursue real reforms. senate sweeping, and swffering, congressional housecleaning, de-funding the global kleptocracies, festivals of primaries may sufficiently disappoint the demoncrats. swim the witches in looney-toon jurisdictions like the turtle's, like piglosi, witchmer, the rabid left-coast, vipers like ms lindsey, the compromised tom the tool tillis and smirk-cow of ak . ect. a let's go red initiatve would be helpful to jailing big-spending crt;l creeps in the sw, other election-stealing criminal blue states, tossing the disgraceful crooked dc judges to the curb. tick tock ladies and gents.

Trump's right. Congress has no right to pass a law to limit the president's authority. I was in law school in 1974 and wondered why no one raised this issue at the time.

Permission needed to stop wasting money? No wonder we are $36 trillion in debt.

#5, my recollection from 1974 was a perennially Democrat controlled Legislature sought take advantage of a "Hate Nixon" mindset toward the Executive when Democrats did not control it.

Like the Bible, our Constitution is easily available to be read and studied by anyone. Having done so, formally and informally, it is clear that the power to tax and spend resides solely with Congress, as an Article 1 (Legislative Branch), Section 8, Clause 1 enumerated power, "The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States..." There is no such language under Article II for presidential power; conversely, there is Article II language commanding the president to, "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" and its implications for executive power and responsibility. The powers, duties, and authorities are clear and, if counterproductive c. 2025, can be changed through the Amendment process, which Trump is likely popular enough to pull off with Congress and the 38 states but he's got it to do. Congress has delegated, via legislation, signed into law by sitting presidents, certain aspects of its tax and spend authority to the president, with lawful strings (requirements) attached; otherwise, no president would have any say at all relative to tariffs. The Constitution did not provide any executive authority for a president to lay and collect tariffs but Congress did, via enacted legislation but with attached requirements that must be met, the same with the impoundment of appropriated dollars, which carries the weight of public law. Short of a Constitutional amendment, if Trump believes that certain appropriations will lead to wasteful spending, he has a receptive House of Representatives that he can enlist in re-directing existing appropriations or agree to just not spend the dollars. Only one president in our nation's history, POTUS #1, the original GW, has had the opportunity to write his own ticket vis-à-vis governing authority, and he elected to follow the Framers, as he had personally fought, and led our Army, Navy, and Marines to fight, to eliminate monarchy rule within the U.S.