⚠️The OMB now requires political appointees—instead of high-ranking career officials—to sign off on every action to apportion (i.e., spend or stop) funds that Congress has appropriated under its *exclusive* constitutional power to do so. politico.com/news/2020/08/1…
With the diverse Power of the Purse Coalition, we oppose the White House’s latest effort to abuse the budgeting process & push congressionally appropriated funds toward executive branch policy priorities. @demandprogress @FreedomWorks @NTU @POGOBlog @RSI pogo.org/press/release/…
The power of the purse belongs to Congress; the executive branch can spend public funds *only as Congress directs*.
The founders purposely separated these powers to protect our democracy from declining into tyranny. POTUS dodging that separation violates our Constitution.
In our lawsuit against @POTUS’s attempt to override Congress’s explicit denial to fund his #borderwall, a court blocked this unconstitutional effort to usurp Congress’s power of the purse & violate the separation of powers. protectdemocracy.org/project/el-pas…
This new OMB policy aggrandizes the White House’s creeping power over spending decisions. It’s part of the Trump admin’s “broader effort to defend the president’s authority to spend money at any time...in any manner that he determines appropriate.” nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/…
We call on the administration to reverse its policy & urge Congress to reassert its primacy over federal spending decisions through reforms that recalibrate the #ChecksandBalances critical to a democracy that’s more accountable, transparent, and responsive to all Americans.
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