Now, to. More specifically to the question, and I think this is the answer that you'll like a little bit better. Congress gets to say, not the president, not the executive branch, and what we spend in these agencies. And you'll notice that in many of them, Congress has come and funded them, if not at 100%, at a pretty substantial level of where they have been. (43:03–43:09)
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Asserts that Congress, not the president or executive branch, decides agency spending.
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