"President Donald Trump is taking control of America's bank account. As the government shutdown hits week four and Congress is stuck in a budget stalemate, Trump has been pushing for more power under the executive branch. The president has made major budget and policy decisions without waiting for the customary legislative approval: igniting a new wave of federal worker firings, greenlighting military and law enforcement pay during the shutdown, and beginning construction on a 90,000-square-foot ballroom."
"Business Insider spoke with legal scholars and policy analysts about Trump's latest economic moves and what they mean for the US checks-and-balances system. "That power of the purse is supposed to be the top card because it means that, more or less, anything the president can do Congress gets to veto by not paying for it," said Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the right-leaning Cato Institute. "But if the president can get around that, then he no longer has to listen.""
President Donald Trump has taken unilateral control over several federal funding decisions amid a multi-week government shutdown, exercising executive authority to fire federal workers, authorize military and law-enforcement pay, and begin construction on a large ballroom. Those moves coincide with a broader pattern of economic intervention, including shifting trade policies, ousting the Bureau of Labor Statistics head after a weak jobs report, and public conflict with the Federal Reserve. Legal and policy analysts say the actions blur constitutional lines because Congress typically sets detailed appropriations, and bypassing those allocations raises questions about the legality and precedent of executive-directed spending.
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