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(1,770 posts)To African Americans when sending death certs to family members. Or to take care of vets. Or to get rid of mold in military housing. Or to provide safe water to military installations. FFS
DeminPennswoods
(15,278 posts)things if they didn't waste it on hiring "consultants" among other things.
budkin
(6,699 posts)Trump getting elected will continue to be the single worst event that has happened in our lifetimes.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)triron
(21,999 posts)safeinOhio
(32,673 posts)of the SC budget too?
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)Those funds were designated for the military. If they don't need it, Congress needs to claw it back
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)Vinca
(50,261 posts)Moral Compass
(1,517 posts)As a country, were completely off the rails. The constitution mandates that Congress and only Congress has the power of the purse. It also is the only governmental body that can declare war. Well the whole thing about Congress declaring war went out the window decades ago.
But now money that was voted on to go to Defense spending is going to be re-purposed on the whim of the executive branch. That means the whole notion of constitutionality and following the constitution is affectively dead at this point.
The federal budget now is just a big slush fund that the executive branch can move around for whatever priorities they deem appropriate. We are no longer a republic governed by a set of rules.
We have slid into a dictatorship? Monarchy? Im not sure what this is. But I dont think that the country can be saved at this point.
Im close enough to the finish line that I can sit here and hope that they wont cancel Social Security or defund Medicare with an executive order. But my children are going to have to deal with this.
At some point this is going to get violent.
budkin
(6,699 posts)Because it's total bullshit.
Moral Compass
(1,517 posts)Republicans care only about power.