[saywhatagain]

What is the meaning and purpose of the President’s letter?

A John Salisbury tweeted out this explanation. Could not find any MSM reference (of course not). The letter from the President is copied below with reference. For those who do have time, the conclusion of Mr. Salisbury . . . The President has basically told the house . . . See ya in court!

For those who have given up, patriots all in the trenches, understand, North Korea has stood down, only the details follow. Up next is Iran. The President needs what he got from that bill to accomplish what is going to be confronted in the next 3 to 4 months. Hang on folks. Its show time

In the meantime is this explanation correct? Freepers decide.

John Salisbury account


 Let's talk about what the President can and can't do for this Omnibus Bill. There's a lot of discussion both ways so let's examine how money gets allocated & spent in the US Government:

1. Congress allocates money to be spent. The President spends the allocated money.
2. Once Congress allocates money, their job is oversight of the money being spent. They don't spend the money and have no say HOW it gets spent as long as it's spent legally. That's their job to monitor with oversight.
3. Once the President is given the money with the instructions to spend it, he has a number of choices to make in spending it. There are some rules he has to follow & some of the money is fungible and some isn't.

4. However there are some other factors that are in play here. One of them is that the President has declared a Human Rights Emergency AND has notified Congress that he's invoking the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

NOTE: See Letter and Link below for reference of above statement.

5. This opens up new options.

6. By making these two declarations President Trump has just communicated that he has the authority to NOT spend any funds he doesn't deem necessary and will return them to the US Treasury. So, funds for Planned Parenthood? He can simply not allocate the funds
7. Also, these declarations make some funds fungible. For instance if he determines that building a Wall on the Southern Border is a defense against Human Trafficking? He can move funds from anywhere else in the Defense Dept Allocation & simply build the Wall.

8. Congress is powerless to stop cash reallocations on an omnibus bill AND cannot stop the DOD from taking measures under a declared Emergency.

NOTE: In part the above statement needs to be challenged,

9. Despite their language in the Omnibus Bill about the Border Wall, it is trumped by the State of Emergency that Trump declared



8) (sic)So in summary - This will go to the Courts. Congress will sue the President over the Border Wall. But here's how it will play out - Congress and the President are co-equal branches with different functions. Congress allocates. The President spends.
9) (sic) The President has National Security as his Primary Responsibility and it's his job to use whatever funds and declarations he needs to for that job. No Court in this Nation (except corrupt on the take Judges) would EVER rule against a President for exercising that authority.
10) In the end the Supreme Court (yes, that's where it will end) will fully VALIDATE the President's Constitutional Authority & the Wall will be built. /

Letter from President to Speaker of House

[cba123]

Interesting.

(bkmk)

[DAC21]

“the President has declared a Human Rights Emergency AND has notified Congress that he’s invoking the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985”

Can’t recall what radio station I was listening to yesterday while driving around town, possibly the Patriot 1150 in So Cal. But some Lady was taking about 10’s of thousands of Sex Slave workers sneaking accross or forced accross the Southern boarder. Sure sounds like a Human Rights situation. Coincidence I was hearing about that yesterday?

[thingumbob]

LMAO...This is why Hilary lost.

Trump knows how to beat people over the head with a club of their own making if this true.

Btw, your chess theory might be right to on that Q post. Don't forget that Q's information sometimes has double meanings and yours might just be one of them.

[plangent]

ping

[maggief]

Ping

[Right Wing Assault]

Twitter link is dead.

[TalBlack]

No Court in this Nation (except corrupt on the take Judges) would EVER rule against a President for exercising that authority.

If you or Trump are counting on this you haven’t been paying attention. When the Judicial Branch egregiously violated the Executive’s legal authority the Executive failed to slap them down. They will now rule as they damn well please.

[skr]

Why isn’t the letter signed? There are no other references to it so far. One of the tweeters in the link asks if he (Trump, I’m guessing) will do it. It doesn’t sounds as though it has actually happened. Is Salisbury replying to someone else? I’m trying to backtrack but am not conversant in tweeting.

[11th_VA]

Trump playing 4D chess ... ;)

[Pollster1]

"This will go to the Courts. Congress will sue the President over the Border Wall."

Will "Congress" sue? Does anyone in Congress with the authority to make that a congressional action want to sue - and face the wrath of the right? Do individual corrupt insiders have the standing to sue without a majority vote in both the House and the Senate?

If true, I will enjoy watching this play out. Normally, the standing question irritates me, but in this case it might for once help real Americans.

[wiseprince]

If his was the plan and if this is what just happened then co!or me impressed. We shall see but he did just tweet about drugs pouring across the border and enemy combatants coming across the border sighting national defense (and on Friday National defense is also what he sighted).

[MayflowerMadam]

I was wondering if We The People would be able to file a Class Action Suit against the Legislative and Administrative branches. None of them had time to read it before they were forced to vote, so they couldn’t have known what they were voting on. Maybe SCOTUS would decree some kind of “do-over”.

But if Trump has found a better way to fix the mess via 3D chess — even better.

[unlearner]

Did the president really just roll the Dems?

[oincobx]

So if any federal dollars end up at Planned Parenthood, NEA, NPR, etc., we can blame that on the President and not Congress?

[Deaf Smith]

bump

[bitt]

good link to the article on twitter:

https://twitter.com/5Strat/status/977677766668636160

[Teacher317]

In the end the Supreme Court (yes, that's where it will end) will fully VALIDATE the President's Constitutional Authority & the Wall will be built. /

Interesting approach, and I love the attempt... but don't be so sure that SCOTUS will back this play. The Women do not care about the Constitution or Precedents, only their opinions matter, and they won't like this humiliation of their Democrats. Only 2 of the remaining 6 need to oppose, and the Trump Card being played here will be for naught... and The Swamp can surely buy/threaten/coerce those 2, in their fight for survival.

[for-q-clinton]

I’ll be damned. Wow if this works

[semimojo]

This looks like a totally routine administrative clean-up.

Based on the text it looks like Congress designates emergency spending in the budget but the Executive, who actually spends the money, has to officially declare it as such - in other words agreeing with Congress’intent.

I haven’t researched it but I’d wager the same letter has been sent by every President after every budget passed since 1985.

[bgill]

No Court in this Nation (except corrupt on the take Judges) would EVER rule against a President for exercising that authority.

The courts are filled with corrupt judges.

10) In the end the Supreme Court (yes, that's where it will end) will fully VALIDATE the President's Constitutional Authority & the Wall will be built.

Unless the lower courts on the way to the Supreme delays it until Trump is out of office.