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Congress Tallies Obama’s Final Results: TURNS OUT HE ROBBED $2.6B FROM VETERANS And GAVE $4.5 BILLION To ISLAMIC REFUGEES


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"The most egregious dereliction of his duties came when the VA appeared before Congress and argued that they were short $2,600,000,000 in their budget because that money was taken by Obama and placed in his Syrian refugee program."

https://independentminute.com/2019/02/07/congress-tallies-obamas-final-results-turns-out-he-robbed-2-6b-from-veterans-and-gave-4-5-billion-to-islamic-refugees/?utm_source=newsletter-+fear-blood&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:1703519&utm_campaign=2-7+IDM+new+schedule

 

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Some sources seem to indicate the shortfall in the VA was separate from the money given to the Syrian refuge money. Snopes claims this but Snopes can't be trusted on political matters.  Rather than using money on the Syrians it could well been spent on the veterans.

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20 hours ago, Dric902 said:

I believe the sentiment

I'm suspicious of the report

since when did Congress report numbers from two previous admins at once

 

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Same here.  While I've no doubt that most of the mainstream media would consider something like this "unnewsworthy" some outlets would be all over it (Fox news for one).

Plus any idiot can form a website.

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1 hour ago, windowasher said:

But yet, When Trump want to take funds from the Pentagon, Which the libs try to do every year, to build the wall, they scream like little babies

Ok, lets talk about the “power of the purse”

Congress appropriates revenue, debt, and spending. Only Congress, all spending bills must start in “the People’s House” as the Senate was where the States were represented (originally)

When a bill is voted on and passed, it does not pay for itself. The funding must be done through the budget process. That’s how Kerry could vote for the war before voting against it. He voted for the war but against the funding of the war.

the various agencies appear before the appropriations committee and justify the budget they want for the next year. When Congress writes the budget bills (12 of them) the reason that they are multiple thousands of pages is that nearly every dollar is directed to a project or bill. The rest is “discretionary spending” but even that is controlled heavily.

when the budget for NASA passes in the budget bill, they don’t write NASA a check or transfer funds to NASAs account. Every dollar is directed to this project, that developer, the contractor (from whatever district the are from) to the ‘Nth degree. The pentagon budget is huge, not just in dollars but in directives and restrictions. X amount for the J35 contractor that does the wheels, Y amount for the supplier of coffee to the O club at Ft Drum. Etc etc etc.

Trump did two things that are the basis for the lawsuits. Or two main things, the rest is for the headlines. (I didn’t need to do this)

He didn’t declare a National Emergency on the southern border, he declared a National Emergency because Congress didn’t give him enough money for border security. The wording is very important, if he declared a NE for funding then it is a violation of the Constitution and the checks and balances system where only Congress provides funding. 

Congress also restricts the funding of agencies all the time by inserting into the budget bill that “no funding will be used for X”. That’s how they screwed Reagan on the amnesty bill. The law included the securing of the border, but congress restricted the funding for it. Reagan never trusted the Democrooks again after that.

The second thing Trump has done is to try and violate the budget bill he has already signed. The one he just signed restricted the funds to be used for the border security portion of the bill, and the last budget that directed the funding of the Pentagon, (Defense Appropriations Bill) to redirect that funding as directed violates the Constitutions checks and balances as well as the appropriations process. He talks about and the talking heads float the military building/construction funding as that one has a larger amount of discretionary spending for the individual building projects.

Remember that National Emergencies are not found in the Constitution. The court is not going to rule if the NE is Constitutional but if it violated the constraints of the budget process and the separation of powers clauses.

It isn’t about the border, it isn’t about the wall, it’s about the separation of powers and the “power of the purse” being exclusively given to Congress.

 

and of course.....it’s about 2020

 

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The Act empowers the President to activate special powers during a crisis but imposes certain procedural formalities when invoking such powers. The perceived need for the law arose from the scope and number of laws granting special powers to the executive in times of national emergency. Congress can undo an emergency declaration with either a joint resolution and the President's signature, or with a veto-proof (two-thirds) majority vote.[1] Powers available under this Act are limited to the 136 emergency powers Congress has defined by law.[2]

 

As of February 2019, 59 national emergencies had been declared, with 31 of them being renewed annually. These include the eight that were declared prior to the passage of the 1976 Act.[1][4][19] The longest continuing national emergency dates back to November 1979 by the Carter administration blocking Iranian government propertyunder the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.[20]

Since passage of the National Emergencies Act in 1976, every U.S. President has declared multiple national emergencies: Carter (2); Reagan: (6); H.W. Bush (4); Clinton (17); W. Bush (12); Obama: (13); Trump (3).[21]

heres a list

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_in_the_United_States

 

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