… money, and then we ask them pretty please, can you spend it this way, this way, this way, or this way? We don't appropriate the dollars to them. Who allows, Who sets the agenda to appropriate now? The President, United States. Because who runs that agency is a person appointed by the President of the United States. So Congress can never control the purse strings. If we don't do lineup appropriations, which in politics is called earmarks, we have to appropriate every single dollar. (1:02:39–1:02:51)
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Asserts that the President sets the budget agenda through appointed agency heads.
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