Importantly, these bills ensure that Congress, not President Trump or Russ, vote, decide how our taxpayer dollars are going to be spent by reasserting Congress's power of the purse. Getting these bills signed into law means President Trump and his Cabinet secretaries will no longer have the legal authority to unilaterally defund programs. to fund their own priorities, or to pick and choose which projects to fund. That matters. That matters. And it is a very important victory for the American people and for our democracy. (09:28–09:38)
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Asserts that new legislation removes Trump's authority to unilaterally defund programs.
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