Congress votes on the budget, but once it's approved, the president can allocate it as he sees fit.
That is literally not how it works. Congressional budgets are approved with itemization of what goes where. It's why when he approves $716 billion for the military, it's not a nebulous amount he gets to pick and choose what goes where. Its allocated to various departments for various projects, payment of soldiers, etc.
The Executive Branch may not spend a dime without Congress giving it permission. While appropriations bills largely skip the programmatic details, apart from directing large-scale programs like aircraft and ships, the National Defense Authorization Act includes detailed funding tables specifying exactly how the Pentagon is to use the appropriations for each account (personnel, procurement, operations and maintenance, etc.).
Congress doesnt pull this information out of the air; its largely built from the DODs detailed budget justification documents that accompany the presidents budget submission each February. These documents are based on each programs Program Objective Memorandum, the POM, which lays out the money required for the next five years. Budget justification documents, especially for the procurement accounts, include very detailed information on how programs will use their dollars, and when.
So for once just admit you're wrong and don't know what you're talking about.
How does what you quoted contradict what I said? He simply needs to use funds from the most fitting category for the wall. The fact is, for one reason or another, he doesn't do it.
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Vlado posted...
When the odds go up from 1:50000 to 1:50,
again, lol. only someone who has absolutely no idea what has been going on in clubs and bars on weekends would spout this "europe was so safe and pristine and nice before the immigrants ruined everything!" bullshit.
you may have a point about the REPORTED number of sexual assault crimes having been low (though not "1:50000" low, that's ridiculous). tons of these crimes have always gone unreported, though thanks to the #metoo revolution there's more women (and men) speaking out, fortunately. anyone who's only slightly familiar with nightlife culture should know what's really going on, though.
this is exactly what always pissed me off about the ridiculous overreaction to the new year's eve controversy in cologne. "omg germany was such a nice country and now those evil refugee rapists are ruining everything!" yes, it's obviously horrible and disgusting that a few immigrants raped a few german women. but as someone who knows several women who were sexually assaulted by dutch white men, i wish those cases got a modicum of the outrage the rapes in cologne did. sexual assault is a gigantic problem, and we're not solving it by solely putting the blame on immigrants while acting like europeans are all wonderful and innocent people.
also, if you care this much about sexual assault, you shouldn't defend kavanaugh as passionately as you do.
It was absolutely WAY safer. I have posted clear studies before - "diversity" WRECKS societal trust. Of course, many countries like UK, France, even Germany and The Netherlands to some extent, already had "diversity," so societal trust was already brought down to a great extent before Merkel's idiocy.
It's not just about sexual assaults, stabbings, grenades and no-go zones (to name only some of the "gems" of multiculturalism) are pretty bad, too.
Even you know that Merkel's idiocy has brought much more bad than good to Europe. ---