Can Congress withhold the $500 billion if Trump goes through

[edhopper]

with his signing statement that there will be no oversight?

[gibraltar72]

1. My idea would be to cut the departments he loves until he complies.

I trust Katie Porter and others will be watchful.

[Laelth]

2. No.

The law has passed. If we want to change it, we can amend it, but we will have to get any amendments we want through the Republican-controlled Senate. How likely would that be? No, we’re stuck with the law as written, at this point, and we have to accept that something is better than nothing.

-Laelth

[edhopper]

5. But he is saying

he will defy the law. The $500 billion specifically had oversight attached in the law.

[Laelth]

8. And Democrats negotiated for that oversight, yes.

Trump’s announcing that he’s going to screw us out of the oversight we bargained for. All true.

What are we going to do about it? There’s very little we can do, at this point.

-Laelth

[cally]

7. Are you sure? I think they need to appropriate the money

And the bill has to be initiated in House. Maybe there is a way around that but I remember funds being held up before

[Laelth]

9. I thought this bill acted as an appropriation bill.

If not, then yes. We could scuttle the law and get nothing instead of something, but I am pretty sure that the recently-passed law acts as an appropriations bill and that we are stuck with it, for better or for worse.

Please correct me if I am wrong.



-Laelth

[cally]

10. You are probably right

I just hope Pelosi has some way to salvage it

[notdarkyet]

3. Withhold. He lied. Chuck and Nancy said it was all locked down. Don't let him do this.

Just like Ukraine. Where’s the money.?

[Kingofalldems]

11. You mean Sen. Schumer and Speaker Pelosi?

Chuck and Nancy are what Trump calls them.

[pat_k]

4. Congress has a right to the information. Trump declared intent to obstruct. It must go to court.

A court that actually gave a shit about the law would compel him to provide the information Congress is entitled to until fully litigated. (i.e., Restrain him from exercising his claimed, and likely unconstitutional, "right" to withhold he has declared for himself until a final determination is made.)

[uponit7771]

6. +1,