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[-] snooggums@midwest.social 22 points 9 months ago

Yes, lying all the time must be very tiring.

Maybe you should stop doing it.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago
[-] kinsnik@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The administration said that it was bound to build this section of new wall because Congress already appropriated the funding to do so in 2019. It had been unsuccessful in convincing Congress to rescind the funding

so... the wall had already been ordered and paid by congress under the Tramp administration, so the Biden administration followed the law?

[-] EmptySlime 14 points 9 months ago

Basically yes that's my understanding. When Congress appropriates money for something, the Executive Branch is obligated by law to spend that money on what Congress appropriated it for.

As much as I hate the whole border wall thing if Biden just said "Fuck Congress, we're not doing that" it almost certainly would lead to a world where the next Republican president uses that same idea to essentially end things like Medicaid or SNAP.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

It'd give them a legitimate excuse for an impeachment, as opposed to the trumped up bullshit they kept trying for the last three and a half years.

[-] daltotron@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I mean they might straight up just end medicaid or SNAP anyways, at this rate

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