Republicans can't even cut funding to Planned Parenthood which remains fully funded.
Betsey,
What you can do is freeze all travel and TDY.
Maybe save the Planet by boosting the AC to 80 degrees in all offices.
Restricting travel to trains only.
Let’s get imaginative here.
Congress needs to visit the schools to see what the “extra” money has provided. This is an in your face attack on the taxpayers of this country . . .a great country founded with education of the best and brightest in one-room schools and outhouses. I don’t hear much about IQ tests anymore. . .perhaps we need to start with Congress!
Mrs. DeVos is a big loser in Omnibus bill.
Because they think they can ignore us and still get reelected. And most of the time, they’re right.
>>>Remind me again - Why do we elect Republicans?<<<
Because today’s Democrats will go full blown Communism when given the chance by getting back into power.
I am under no illusion that POTUS Trump can get this Country back on track, so I can only hope he will be able to seat enough Conservative Constitution supporting Judges who will hold back the rising appeal of Socialism / Communism that has overtaken the Republic.
In fact, my number one reason for supporting him was the Generational impact on the Appeals Courts and the Supreme Court if the Hildebast had Won.
That is why I think that you support “your” favored Candidate in the Primary, but you Vote for the GOP Candidate in the General. Blue Dog Democrats are extinct.
If, indeed, as postulated by more than one person who should know, the “OMNIBUS spending bill” does not have the full force and effect as budgets passed in “Regular Order,” Mrs. DeVos can spend the Education Department’s money as she pleases.
I believe that a significant minority of republicans have compromising photos or videos of them that are used to blackmail them and their votes.
Note that the budget battle starts up again in September.
Military funding for 2018 and 2019 are off the table, they can’t be changed. All of the remaining Omnibus is to be fought again in September before the midterms. The President said he won’t sign the next one. In the meantime, funds not spent will be returned to the Treasury.
The takeaway is that the Executive does not control who and who can’t be fired, bought out, retired. Congress calls the shots for the ‘entrenched bureaucracy’. This is how they attempt to control the Executive Branch.
Trump has all the money he needs. There could be a government shutdown threat in September, a real one this time because the President doesn’t have to worry about military funding. The President is growing in popularity. Members of Congress up for reelection will flip their votes to the President’s agenda when they face voters this fall.
She should challenge this over reach. Oversight does not mean you can run day-to-day operations.
bump
Omnimbus keep getting worse and worse, the more we find out.