The person who's writing the checks decides where that money's going to go. Here in Congress, we have a much broader array of things than family homes. We fund everything from defense to VA medical to agriculture to labor, health, human services, education. I mean, so many things. So we decide how much each of those accounts will have and then appropriate the dollars to them. Yeah. So the appropriations process is called for in the Constitution. (00:39–00:49)
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