A friendly reminder to our duly elected lawmakers in Washington as they debate a bill funding the DHS: as members of Congress, you hold the power of the purse, per Article I S7.C1 and S9.C7 of the Constitution. You decide whether to raise taxes and how much, and there is no mandate to fund a government agency. I hope that advice proves useful.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/ice-alex-pretti-minnesota-congress-republicans
#appropriationsBill #checksAndBalances #DHS #governmentShutdown #powerOfThePurse #tariffs #taxation #USCongress #USPolitics
DHS and ICE are under siege by Congress like never before
Democrats are piling onto a push to impeach Noem as many Republicans call for an investigation.
A federal judge in August blocked #Trump from withholding #US #funding from more than in 30 jurisdictions including Los Angeles, Baltimore, Boston & Chicago that have declined to cooperate with his hardline #immigration crackdown following Trump's executive orders a year ago.
#judiciary #law #Congress #PowerOfThePurse #SeparationOfPowers #RevengePolitics
Illegal!
#Trump to cut #funding to #states over #SanctuaryCities
Federal payments will be halted to states over their so-called sanctuary cities on February 1, Trump said Wednesday without elaborating on what funds or which states.
"Effective February first, no more payments will be made by the federal government to states for their corrupt criminal protection centers known as sanctuary cities," Trump wrote in a social media post.
#law #Congress #PowerOfThePurse
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-federal-payments-sanctuary-cities-end-february-1-2026-01-14/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
"Trump said the oil would be sold at market prices and that he would control the resulting revenues"
The Constitution would beg to differ.... #PowerOfThePurse
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Trump says Venezuela to hand over up to 50 million barrels of oil to US
US president says oil will be sold at market prices and that he will control the resulting revenues.
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Support companies with courage that told the
#TrumpRegime to stick it where the sun don't shine
We have the
#PowerOfThePurseUse yours to patronize those who stand with their consumers
https://weaintbuyingit.com/#SmallBusinessSaturdayEven some Republicans are alarmed by Trump's power grab, as his administration's tactic of blocking funds faced an internal GOP effort to rein it in, only to be swiftly quashed. This move raises questions about the balance of power within government. See the full story:
https://www.alternet.org/trump-vought-2674308715/ #Congress #PowerOfThePurse
How the Trump White House crushed a Republican plan to curb his power grab
The Trump administration’s disregard for Congress’s “power of the purse” has raised alarms across Washington, including within his own party. According to a new report from NOTUS, when one top GOP official sought to rein in the president’s monetary power grab, his efforts were swiftly quashed.As the...
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“The reason things have dragged to a legislative standstill in October is essentially because Republicans in Congress willed it to be so when they returned to Washington to rejoin Trump as devoted supplicants. Their most fateful decision in that regard? Giving up one of the legislative branch’s core functions—the power of the purse.”
#Politics #USPolitics #USCongress #CongressionalAppropriations #PowerOfThePurse #TrumpCantBeTrusted #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
https://newrepublic.com/post/201612/trump-shutdown-appropriations-process-broken
Why It’s Pointless for Democrats to Negotiate a Shutdown Deal
The most overlooked aspect of the current impasse is that it began a long time ago—and is rooted in a deep Trumpian dysfunction.
"The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency"
"Russell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential power and shrink federal bureaucracy. Now he is moving closer to making that vision a reality, threatening to erode checks and balances."
#USPol #USpolitics #OMB #RussellVought #Congress #PowerofthePurse #ChecksandBalances
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010422264/the-man-expanding-trumps-presidential-powers.html?smid=url-share
Video: The Man Expanding Trump’s Presidential Powers
Coral Davenport, a New York Times reporter, explains how Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to circumvent Congress’s budgetary powers to advance the Trump administration’s agenda.
#SCOTUS lifted a preliminary injunction from a federal judge who found #Trump had usurped #Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse by refusing to spend billions it had budgeted for food, medicine & development around the world.
The decision will likely embolden Trump’s efforts to block funds across the #FederalGovernment on everything from #health #research to #transportation projects to “#SanctuaryCities.”
#law #ActivistCourt #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
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