And that's governed for the better part of the last two and a half centuries. Article one, obviously, as you know, gives Congress, gives the House of Representatives, the Senate, the power of the purse. And I think you raise a reasonable question that's being adjudicated in federal courts across the country as we speak, which is to say, how is it permissible? (04:45–04:52)
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