Of course if Obama were to impound 50% of the Defense Department budget to help cut the deficit you'd scream and howl. (I would too, but unlike you I'm in favor of following the Constitution and the law.) But hey, he'd be cutting what he as President considers unimportant, the useless fat.
Since you're willing to dump the Constitution for a shortcut when it becomes convenient I consider further discussion with you pointless.
If you want to take the country over the cliff, fine, but the president swears to uphold and defend the constitution, not unconstitutional appropriations passed by congress, or blocs of greedy constituents more concerned with their own largess than the prosperity of the nation.
How a president goes about this is up to him, but he MUST kill off a huge chunk of the federal government, and he MUST slash the federal budget.
You fret about defense being slashed, but the cruel truth is that they are horribly bloated just like every other part of the government. They are deployed to 100 nations, though they only need to be deployed in half a dozen places.
It is impossible to build a warship on time and on budget, because every flag officer in the Navy wants his own personal changes to the design *while* it’s being built, just for pure ego gratification.
The US spends the vast majority of defense monies spent in the world, so why are we just barely staying ahead of the threat? It’s called egregious waste.
Why does America have 16 major intelligence agencies, and over 100 federal police agencies, and even non-police agencies like the Department of Education are being authorized SWAT teams? It is insane.
Yet you fret that the president would somehow break the law by eradicating huge amounts of this worthless and authoritarian bloat.
I think your arguments have failed.