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Payroll checks to members of congress. the treasury is literally processing millions of invoices every day, and its got an automated system that does this processing on computers dozens of times per second, and these computers are designed to "make each payment in the order it comes due." there are no built-in mechanisms to pick and choose. yet, what republicans are saying is to undo this entire automated system, which its not even clear this could be done legally it may be illegal to forego pay...

Congress. the treasury is literally processing millions of invoices every day, and its got an automated system that does this processing on computers dozens of times per second, and these computers are designed to "make each payment in the order it comes due." there are no built-in mechanisms to pick and choose. yet, what republicans are saying is to undo this entire automated system, which its not even clear this could be done legally it may be illegal to forego payment to a defense contractor ...