[sam_paine]

And if if the Speaker of the House cannot unilaterally pass such a bill, and coerce the Senate into including that in the budget resolution and sign it into law himself with the president’s pen, then he has no balls?

You sound like Biden screaming “Stand up Chuck! Stand up ya big lazy wus!”

[Vigilanteman]

The House can unilaterally withhold funding. They control the purse strings.

You might want to read up on how the post Watergate House cut South Viet Nam and President Gerald Ford off at the knees when the NVA army came storming over the DMZ in violation of the truce concluded just three years earlier.

South Viet Nam requested and Ford was willing to supply naval gunfire support only-- no Americans would be exposed. But the House immediately cut off funding.