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Rosa DeLauro: “They have no authority, they have no inherent authority to…”

Featuring: Rosa DeLauro, Democratic | U.S. House Connecticut, 3rd Congressional District

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 49 with Rep. Rosa DeLauro

Published | Video Starts at 25:34

Well, first of all, because you quoted the Constitution, the president and certainly not Russ Vogue, who was an unelected bureaucrat. Yeah. They have no authority, they have no inherent authority to take money that has been appropriated by the Democrats and Republicans in the Congress. Now, this has been adjudicated in the past. Yeah. Scalia, no liberal has come forward and said that there is no inherent authority that the President has here. (25:34–25:52)

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Asserts that the President and Russ Vought have no authority to take appropriated funds.

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