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catbyte

(34,367 posts) Tue Dec 18, 2018, 09:28 PM Dec 2018

Ted Lieu & Jim Acosta school the Executive Branch on how government really works. Again.

Link to tweet

Dear @PressSec Sarah Sanders:

-US taxpayers, not Mexico, fund federal agencies.

-The Executive Branch executes the law. Congress appropriates funds & write the laws. @realDonaldTrump cannot use other funds to build a wall that Congress specifically did not appropriate.

Get it?

Jim Acosta
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@Acosta
Sanders said today the WH is not looking for the taxpayers to pay for the wall while at the same time said the WH is looking to other agencies to find wall funding. Is @presssec aware that agencies of the federal government are funded by taxpayers?

8:18 PM - Dec 18, 2018