@csgordon@zirk.us @gwaldby

You seem to be saying that the executive branch must spend money that the legislative branch authorizes to be spent even if it doesn't exist.

You seem to be saying that Congress can order the executive branch to spend five trillion dollars even if the treasury will only take in two trillion dollars.

Congress is entirely able to pass a law saying such a thing.

And yet, by the design of the US government and simple mathematics the executive cannot be forced to do that whether that deficiency is based on chain of command or the mathematical impossibility.

It's pretty ridiculous to say otherwise.