Jaw-dropping how much Congress spent illegally on programs

Chow Yuck Chuck

Our beloved Congress has spent no less than $516,000,000,000 on programs without authorization in 2024. That means they spent your tax money illegally and you can't blame this on Trump. A gut-wrenching report by the Congressional Budget Office clearly emphasizes why the Left is attacking President Trump's right to audit payments by the Treasury Department, a government department over which he has significant authority.

For example, the President appoints the Secretary of the Treasury, while there is a balance by legislative and administrative checks. The President can direct the Department's policy through executive orders and set priorities, or influence fiscal policy, especially issues like taxation, debt management and current policy, and through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) can propose the federal budget to Congress. However, Congress holds the "power of the purse," and has to approve all expenditures.

In a report titled "Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024," the CBO observes: "Historically, House and Senate rules restrict lawmakers from considering an appropriation if it lacks a current authorization." Nevertheless, "CBO estimates that $516 billion was appropriated for 2024 for activities with expired authorizations, which the agency identified for each House and Senate authorizing committee and appropriations subcommittee." That $516 billion in illegal payments cover "1,264 authorizations of appropriations that expired before the beginning of fiscal year 2024 and 251 authorizations of appropriations that were set to expire by the end of fiscal year 2024." The legal authority for some of these payments expired 40 years ago!



The data shows that Congress has created a shadow funding stream for their pet projects where senior members can shovel money in pork-filled spending packages under the pretense of preventing a government shutdown.

The money is paid despite there being no legal authority for the disbursement. This is akin to embezzlement but on a more gargantuan scale. If you and I did this, we'd to to prison for years. When congresspeople do it, they get reelected for years.

Making this all the more intriguing is that it would seem that President Trump could stop those illegal payments without worrying about violating the Impoundment Control Act, simply because they're illegal according to Congress' own rules.  

This is why they're having accidents in their skivvies, because when DOGE delves deeper into this, there's gonna be a lot more illegal stuff they're gonna find.

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