and the “CR” gives those acts the veneer of lawfulness.
No, it literally makes them legal…
The way it’s always worked is a budget say $X goes to Y agency.
This says “here’s $x, idgaf what you use it for”.
We expanded presidential powers.
trump can now say he doesn’t want to pay for Housing Assistance, he wants to use it to harass minorities with ICE and CBP, so he can legally just take money from one pile to another.
Which is why a shutdown would have been preferable.
Instead Schumer and a few other Dems decided only shutting down what trump doesn’t like is better than shutting down everything.
So we gave Republicans everything they wanted, got nothing in exchange, because Schumer wanted to kick off his book tour, it’s a book about how bad Israel is being treated, so that obviously took priority
No, it literally makes them legal…
The way it’s always worked is a budget say $X goes to Y agency.
This says “here’s $x, idgaf what you use it for”.
We expanded presidential powers.
trump can now say he doesn’t want to pay for Housing Assistance, he wants to use it to harass minorities with ICE and CBP, so he can legally just take money from one pile to another.
Which is why a shutdown would have been preferable.
Instead Schumer and a few other Dems decided only shutting down what trump doesn’t like is better than shutting down everything.
So we gave Republicans everything they wanted, got nothing in exchange, because Schumer wanted to kick off his book tour, it’s a book about how bad Israel is being treated, so that obviously took priority