Posted on 10/27/2015 8:52:55 AM PDT by Hojczyk
THANK GOD those evil America hating Obama loving purists around here were ignored and we elected lesser evil Republicans.
Can you IMAGINE the damage if they had gotten their way and people stood on principle? It’s a testament to the wisdom of ‘no matter what’ voters is what it is. Now the GOP can get the credit it so richly deserves for saving America from solvency, and not the Democrats.
No, if Congress appropriates the money the Executive Branch MUST spend it.
Presidents used to have this power before Nixon. He was trying to get control of profligate spending and held back large sums, which he returned to the Treasury at year end. This got the Democrats bent all out of shape so they passed the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which required him to get approval from Congress to impound funds. (they had taken advantage of Nixon’s cratering popularity in Watergate and accused him of “abusing his power”)
Nixon for whatever reason signed it into law three weeks before he left office. Subsequent Supreme Court interpretations have stripped even more of this power from the POTUS.
Yet another reason this mess is as far out of whack as it is today.
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