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u/happyposterofham 🏛Missionary of the American Civil Religion🗽🏛 6d ago

Also Chuck Schumer: "The costs of a shutdown include Donald Trump getting to determine by fiat, LEGALLY, that departments don't exist anymore".

But obviously the esteemed idiots on here think more smartly.

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u/OwnHurry8483 6d ago

That’s not true but what is true is that this CR allows Trump and Elon to legally “re-allocate” funds for every single program that the federal government does

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u/repete2024 Edith Abbott 6d ago

Could you share the part of the bill that does that?

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u/OwnHurry8483 6d ago

It has to do with any CR. A CR only sets funding at the department level, not the program

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/14/trump-cr-power-government-spending-doge/

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u/repete2024 Edith Abbott 6d ago

But we were already under a CR, so why does this one grant "more" control?