Well…..
WELL?
Has it just dawned on you people trhat Trump & Co. REALLY has NO RESPECT for YOU?
(And the Judges, Courts ? and Law)
WTF did you people knuckle under and vote FOR what YOUR Party leader wanted?
Collins doesn’t really count….
She ALWAYS complains , then goes along WITH Trump…..
Besides this ?
Trump WILL come back to you for MORE of what HE WANTS….
Next time?
You COULD FLEX and Say ‘NO’…..
How about cutting or defunding the White House Operation?…
Top congressional appropriators — including a Republican — sent letters Thursday challenging the Trump administration’s decision to implement only a portion of the emergency money included in the recent stopgap funding bill.
Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Patty Murray of Washington — the chair and ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, respectively — sent a letter Thursday to Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought raising alarm that the administration is not adhering to the funding measure’s spending directives.
They are specifically taking issue with the fact that the administration seems to be picking and choosing which programs and departments to fund from the 27 “emergency appropriations” outlined in the bill. Vought, in a memo to President Donald Trump on March 24, recommended the president “not designate” 11 of those emergency appropriations accounts.
“It is incumbent on all of us to follow the law as written — not as we would like it to be,” wrote Collins and Murray.
Collins’ comments were particularly striking given her past remarks that the Trump administration could find itself subject to lawsuits if it sought to disregard the will of Congress is deciding how federal dollars should and should not be spent.
The senators made clear that spending bills approved by Congress and signed into law by the president must be regarded as law, not an optional recommendation to the executive branch: “Just as the President does not have a line-item veto, he does not have the ability to pick and choose which emergency spending to designate.”
They said they are “concerned” about “sudden changes to OMB’s interpretation of long-standing statutory provisions,” adding it could be “disruptive to the appropriations process and make it more difficult for the Appropriations Committee to work in a collaborative fashion with the Administration.”
They also scolded Vought for not bringing this issue to them directly: “Collaboration will become even more challenging when the Committee is first informed of such developments through the press, rather than notified through official channels, as was the case here.”….
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