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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClaire McCaskell just verified something
The money/WHO funds for the fiscal year have already been allocated.
Trump can't just cut this funding.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)TY!
riversedge
(70,302 posts)away with it before and will again. no one--the repugs don't care anymore. --will stop him.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)i can easily see him being taken to court for this
elleng
(131,107 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Look tough. Sound like you're the boss. Absolute bullshit.
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)The Constitution says so.
According to Trump.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)fooled the sheeple once again.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)I didn't know that. So just like everything else, announcement was intended to look like he was doing something when he wasn't really doing anything at all!
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)calimary
(81,466 posts)spanone
(135,874 posts)The essence of don trump.
K&R
progressoid
(49,999 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)WVreaper
(623 posts)I much as I want this to be true. I can't find anything that backs this up.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)I guess I just like to fact check things.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)Ukraine got their money
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)2naSalit
(86,779 posts)funding allocated by Congress, once it's been signed by everybody, it's a done deal.
iluvtennis
(19,872 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)Now he gets to grunt and snort about the WHO, and give his base a shiny object to look at. ANYTHING to distract attention away from his own incompetence.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)niyad
(113,556 posts)waste of resources. You really should have some read, and explain, the Constitution to you.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)My guess? He retreats on this and blames Congress for already allocating the money, he is getting his ass seared here and worldwide.
Midnight Writer
(21,798 posts)Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)Link to tweet
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hangaleft
(649 posts)Didnt you get the memo? He has absolute authority!
PatSeg
(47,589 posts)A media stunt that got people talking about that instead of real news.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Come due until 2021. Trump lied again!
LTG
(216 posts)Jefferson first used by Jefferson in 1801 and it was considered a Presidential power and used by various Presidents up until Nixon. Congress had passed a budget allocation for the Clean Air Act (IIRC). Nixon vetoed it and Congress overrode the veto.
Nixon withheld the funds and was sued by Congress. The Supreme Court in, Train v. City of New York (1975), ruled that the Act prohibited the President, in this circumstance, from withholding funds in order to frustrate the intent of Congress.
The Supreme Court did not address the various possible arguments re: the unconstitutionality of the Act, only a strict interpretation of the exact wording of the Act.
It could also be argued that the decision also only applies when a veto and override existed, a narrow exception.
On another appeal to the Supreme Court could decide to rule the Act unconstitutional, without having to look to precedent.
The argument in the Ukraine matter ended up being whether it was intended to be and was expended before the end of the budget year. Which is in September.
The Act also permits the President to withhold funds for 45 days. This would provide time for his investigation, a finding against WHO and then blame Congress for not agreeing to agreeing to withhold the funds. He would have no choice.
A move he could also make under the Act would be to withhold funds not necessary to carrying out the intent of Congress. The argument would be that WHO had spent approximately $200 million dollars on unnecessary first class travel, 5star hotel suites, expensive meals etc. effectively being an unlimited expense account on the taxpayers of the U. S. Under the rationale that such expenditures were unnecessary and improper he could conceivably legally withhold up to the 200 million dollars.
He could take each individually or in conjunction with others.
These are just my thoughts on his possible courses of action and not a comment on the possible success of any of them. Ultimately that would be a question for the wisdom of the Supreme Court. they would add time to the question and disbursement.