That funding in almost every case was already appropriated by Congress on a bipartisan basis in pretty much every circumstance. This is the law. Once that funding is appropriated, the president is not supposed to come in and change it. The power of the purse, how revenue is collected by the government and how it is appropriated, all done by Congress. The, and I think, I mean this is in the, in the very beginning of the Constitution, pretty smart people feel that what they're trying to do is, is illegal. (05:47–05:57)
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