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I like to pronounce DOGE as "dodgy" since it's more accurate and probably annoys elon and donald :D
February 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
the president in the form of an executive department instead of a Congressional office of the treasurer. Foolish and naive move on the part of the Congress. Hopefully that gets fixed in the future.)
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February 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
doesn't like money going to a particular department or cause, then he can ask the Congress to consider the matter.

(The main reason we are having this particular Constitutional crisis is because for some strange reason the Congress decided the purse it holds power over... should be tended to by
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February 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
balance in this matter.

And so, once a president has signed that bill into law, the spending directions and apportionments in that bill indeed has become the law of the land in spite of what any future presidents' opinions or persuasions may be on that matter. If any subsequent president
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February 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
will gently remind you: the check and balance here is that the Congress has the power of the purse, and if the president wishes to check and balance the Congress, he is free to do so with his veto pen when that bill reaches his desk. That's it. That's the extent of the president's check and
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February 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Consequence of Appropriations made by Law".

This judge has taken a small step in the obviously correct direction--to rein in all of trump's and musk's criminal activities that clearly usurp the Congress's power of the purse.

And before anyone tries to bring "checks and balances" into this, I
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February 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
II, Section 2, Clause 2).

I would go a very reasonable step further and say the dodgy actions of trump and musk also violate the Congress's Power of the Purse as declared in the Constitution. Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 is very clear: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in
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February 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Honey, it's never gonna be clear. That's the magic of using drugs.
December 28, 2024 at 6:10 PM