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Cheezoholic

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5. Well, we just handed the Executive branch another 70 billion under the auspice that its for the DHS/ICE
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 06:26 AM
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The real secret id that the roughly 225 billion that DHS/ICE has received can be spent any way the Executive branch wishes. They can move it anywhere they want. they can make it disappear (which they are). While the law states Congress has the power of the purse, once the money is given to the Executive branch for the them and the departments under them, the OMB (Russel Vought) have a huge piggy bank slush fund. Now Congress can get pissed, call them in for accountability that the money is being spent as they intended but once that cash gets under the Executive branches umbrella there isn't a whole lot anyone can do short of an independent DOJ investigating. That ain't gonna happen here. The slush fund is way way more than 1.776 billion folks. Its larger than the budget for the Marine Corps. And they now have it in their pocket.

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Using whose money? Permanut Friday #1
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Good one !! chouchou Friday #13
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