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Gonna start a thread and refer to it as what it is. The executive branch taking funds which were allocated by the legislative branch where are representatives are and using it for unauthorized purposes under the guise of a national emergency (if they even bother with that) bears little difference to the misappropriation of public funding for which we seceded from England.
This is intolerable.
The Pentagon’s Shell Game
The Pentagon is transferring money out of its own budget to pay for Trump’s wall. That’s not how it’s supposed to work.
On Monday, the Defense Department notified the relevant congressional committees that it was transferring $1 billion from its own budget to the Department of Homeland Security in order to pay for a chunk of President Donald Trump’s wall on the southern border.
Democratic Reps. Pete Visclosky, chair of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, and Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, both disapproved of the move, but acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said he was going to move the money anyway.
This $1 billion is in addition—and unrelated—to Trump’s executive order allocating $8 billion in “emergency” funds to the wall, over the objections of both the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate
This is intolerable.
The Pentagon’s Shell Game
The Pentagon is transferring money out of its own budget to pay for Trump’s wall. That’s not how it’s supposed to work.
On Monday, the Defense Department notified the relevant congressional committees that it was transferring $1 billion from its own budget to the Department of Homeland Security in order to pay for a chunk of President Donald Trump’s wall on the southern border.
Democratic Reps. Pete Visclosky, chair of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, and Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, both disapproved of the move, but acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said he was going to move the money anyway.
This $1 billion is in addition—and unrelated—to Trump’s executive order allocating $8 billion in “emergency” funds to the wall, over the objections of both the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate