And the statement wraps explaining how a stay would “effectively cut the Congress’s purse strings” while denying the stay maintains the separation of powers balance laid out in our Constitution- granting Congress the power of the purse.

One of my favorite bits of the statement explains that apportionment is NOT an executive power — it is the executive exercising statutory authority granted by Congress though its power of the purse.

And makes clear that the disclosures the law requires include those pesky footnotes where funds are getting frozen.

Judge Henderson’s statement not only explains how mandating public disclosure of apportionments fits squarely within Congress’s power of the purse- but lays out why our Constitution grants that power to congress in the first place.