Posted on 03/25/2018 5:45:16 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
LS, Is this of any count, or just more bloviating?
And, oddly, zero tweets about Stormy Daniels!
Bottom line, 14 months into his first term, Trump is finally putting together the team of leaders he should have had in the first place. Again, better late than never.
As I have said from the beginning, since he won the nomination, that Trump seems to have a singular talent for picking exceptional people and letting them do the job with minimal input or supervision. That's real leadership, instead of the usual micromanagers we get, or the cowards who blame their hirelings instead of taking responsibility themselves (The Buck Stops Here). I was hoping to watch this skill in action from Day One under Trump... and I've been shell-shocked at how many bad picks he made for the first year. Maybe he has finally remembered one of his best talents, and is finally putting it to good use... but I really wish he had been at his best in this regard from the beginning. Let's hope this trend only continues to accelerate.
Another strong signal that Omnibus bill money will be used for the wall, much to the chagrin of Amanda Carpenter and the Cruzettes.
>>>he is accepting the funds under the provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. This law also gives the President broad discretion in making decisions to refuse to spend funds that have been authorized by congress, as well as allowing him to reallocate spending priorities within the budgets of individual executive branch departments.
So if NPR is broadcasting on Monday morning and the NEA is open, then we can assume the President supports this spending?
All the liberal judges in the country are already crafting their decisions and awaiting the lawsuits.
I wish people would get off of this. The "Budget" is not something that Congress passes. It is the proposed spending by each agency, congressioal control line by congressional control line. The budget is then marked by the appropriations subcommittees - and that happened a long time ago.
Then an appropriation is passed - in normal order, which we haven't seen in a long time - in some eleven separate appropriations bills. An omnibus bills takes those 11 and staples them together and passes them all at once. It's a budget and it's legal and I wish folks would get way over the notion that there are "no controls" or the laws are not being followed or some such.
There is a budget, the Congress has appropriated money agains that budget (with some puts and takes that they put into law) and passed it and the President signed it.
Nothing is missing except care and wisdom, but that's a moral issue, not a legal one.
“And, oddly, zero tweets about Stormy Daniels!”
Why is that odd? She irrelevant. Did he tweet about you? No? I guess you are too.
Why hasn't he been using that talent more effectively?
His administration has been rife with disloyalists who had to be fired.
You quoted someone else, not me, but be patient, I hear John Kasich will make a primary run.
Yes, seize the DACA. I can live with 800,000 to 1million of these young people! Seize the issue! Solve it! Isolate it! Seize it! Make it ours!
I am sure those who were against Trump upon signing of the omnibeast were Russian bots!
Trump did not promise to veto the crapulous bill. He said he was considering it
You’re reading a lot of stuff into the piece that I didn’t say.
Yes, the Omnibus takes language from all of those discarded appropriations bills. But that is not at all the same thing as passing formal appropriations, nor does it have the same legal effect.
And I said the President has “broad discretion” not “total discretion” as I’ve seen many people stating. Again, not at all the same thing.
I also pointed out the legal restrictions the Omnibus bill places on the President’s discretion, while also correctly pointing out that those restrictions are trumped by a national emergency, two of which have already been declared by the POTUS without a peep of objection from anyone in congress.
I personally doubt the President will ultimately take the steps he’s hinting about in this tweets, but I sure wish he would. There is little doubt he has the authority to do so, and the supreme court would rule in his favor, possibly with a unanimous decision.
You are an idiot. An Omnibus Appropirations Bills is a formal appropriations bill, and has the same legal effect. It is the law that allows the expenditure of funds from the Treasury, which is what an appropriations is.
Berate Congress all you want for this disaster of an outcome, but stop complaining about changing the color of ink on the box of Wheaties or putting two boxes into one box. It's still a barrel of pork, and its a legal barrel of pork, just as legal as any other barrels of pork ever produced under "normal order."
Make the DACA people vote Republican. Ha that scares the crap out of the dems.
But that is not at all the same thing as passing formal appropriations, nor does it have the same legal effect.
You are an idiot. An Omnibus Appropirations Bills is a formal appropriations bill, and has the same legal effect. It is the law that allows the expenditure of funds from the Treasury, which is what an appropriations is.
Berate Congress all you want for this disaster of an outcome, but stop complaining about changing the color of ink on the box of Wheaties or putting two boxes into one box. It's still a barrel of pork, and its a legal barrel of pork, just as legal as any other barrels of pork ever produced under "normal order."
He’s not tweeting about me because I am not accusing him of anything. I do think it’s odd that of all the accusations leveled against him, this is the only one he isn’t fighting publicly.
If you think anything is going to make the DACA low-lifes vote GOP, you are incredibly deluded!
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