Exactly. They do not have to follow guidelines, I.E. a budget. So, when they want to, they can add in all the pork or bribes and payoffs, like the solar energy failures, they want.
Its actually a free for all. And there are many ignorant idiots in this country who have swallowed it hook line and sinker. The taxpayers get to pay for all this thievery.
They suspected they would lose the House in 2010. So, they took away the House's spending discretion -- choosing to let baseline budgeting set the spending totals and the priorities. Sold as a one-time-only measure, Porkulus was deviously built into the budget framework -- where it remained in the annual baseline. In fact, Porkulus wasn't just a one-time-only trillion dollar "investment", it became four trillion dollars in scheduled (and politically uncuttable) spending.
The 'Rats then anticipated that continuing resolutions -- plus occasional negotiated boosts in the credit limit -- would be the only budget management tools remaining. They essentially de-fanged the House's traditional role in initiating all spending bills. Instead, the House was left with NO role.
I wonder just how many other little "time bombs" are buried in the legislative weeds... <
Is there no constitutional process that the left will not sabotage -- to serve their own political agenda?