So how the fuck is doge getting around the approved budget with appropriated funds? I still don’t get HOW this is happening. It seems surreal, we’re taught in schools how the different branches of government works and these bullshit checks and balances but all it really takes is a president saying “hey do what this guy says” and everything just breaks down?! I’m definitely not a political expert and maybe that’s why I’m so confused.
I don’t know what you’re asking. DOGE isn’t spending money. The most they have done is allow money to keep getting spent while the employees take a long vacation— i.e., the fork in the road. The rest is them summarily firing people (illegally…), but that doesn’t spend money. Unless you count the lawsuits to follow. Agencies aren’t forced to spend the money in the budget.
Musk is working under presidential executive authority. Basically they are purposefully fucking up the execution.
But hasn’t Congress already allocated money for the programs they are dismantling? I know doge isn’t spending money but don’t get how they can immediately shut down funding that’s already been approved
Agencies aren’t forced to spend the money in the budget.
This is s good read:
First of all, why are Republicans the only ones finding out what’s even happening in the government? That’s a good question. But set aside the privileged position of Republicans here. How on earth are we in this position where members of Congress, the ones who write the budget, appropriate and assign the money, now have to go hat in hand to beg for changes or even information from the guy who actually seems to be running the government?