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Sounds like a legal theory that needs to be tested by the courts. The executive branch is not free to interpret the law in a vacuum.


Agencies spend under budget all the time.

Budgets are an approval to spend up to a certain amount, not a requirement to spend a certain amount.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_fu...

We passed laws about that because of a previous Republican president who was also fond of executive overreach.


> 'The executive branch is not free to interpret the law in a vacuum.'

Exactly how else are you supposed to get this tested by the courts?




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