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thesquanderer

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8. Again Trump refuses to spend the money Congress has allocated for something...

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 10:56 AM

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...basically the same reason he was impeached the first time (withholding $ from Ukraine).

How can the two parties ever agree on a budget, if any time the non-presidential party says "we'll give you that if you give us this", the president can just refuse to release the funds for the latter? That's the whole problem with the "line item veto" that this president has essentially grabbed for himself. Except worse than the line item veto, since there's not even a process by which congress can override it.

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