Experts see move as Trump’s latest attempt to shift power of the purse away from Congress and into executive branch
By ordering that US military personnel receive paychecks even though the government is shut down, Donald Trump is seeing to the needs of a politically untouchable constituency that has been caught up in the congressional logjam over federal spending.
But experts who spoke to the Guardian warn that he is doing so in a way that is almost certainly illegal and, if left unchecked, bodes ill for Congress’s constitutional authority to control government spending. Some fear it could set the stage for the president to unilaterally fund other contentious decisions in the future, such as the deployment of the military on US soil.
“I’m with the people who believe that there’s really no good legal justification for moving the money around in this way,” said Phil Wallach, a senior fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute who focuses on the separation of powers in the US government.
He’s also paying ICE while children starve.
The fucking precedent was set long ago, when the supreme court brought kings back to the US. Who’s gonna tell a king he can’t sell his military to the highest bidder?
Experts are fucking useless
So how own private army if this is allowed.
…and it’s relatively cheap. It’s estimated that Pablo Escobar was pulling in $400,000,000.00 usd per month. That’s easily two US militaries without adjusting for inflation, and the Medellín is paid, AND they still profit. Crazy.
Are you missing a couple of zeros or something? Because there’s no way we’re paying 1.3 million military personnel $150 a month or so.
