11-01-2015, 12:53 PM
(11-01-2015, 08:15 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Someone like that at POTUS is not going to shrink the govt. Congress holds the purse strings. The WH can propose anything they like, create any program, Congress can just not fund it. On the reverse, the WH can veto appropriations/spending and Congress can override. There are some things both sides can do there, but Congress has much more power with the budget than the POTUS.
Well this is why I wanted a tea party speaker. But the tea party has a good enough grasp on the house to stop almost anything the progressives want to do. Ryan claims he will be taking back some of the financial power of the house so we will see.
