@csgordon@zirk.us @gwaldby

Again, Congress has no authority to obligate the executive to spend as that would be a violation of the separate but equal design of the US government.

You keep talking about political parties, but this has nothing to do with political parties. He has nothing to do with the GOP or Democrats. It is flat out the design of the US government regardless of who might be passing legislation or executing laws.

Honestly, it sounds like you are a little bit obsessed with political party strategies, but you should not let that cloud the issue.

The US government was designed to ignore that kind of thing and it is really interestingly neutral to that kind of thing. It doesn't matter what party might be in Congress and what party might be in the presidency, the rules still apply, and that is part of what makes it work so well.

The checks and balances of the US government are pretty interesting and pretty effective, as long as we don't try to short circuit them through partisan bias.