Reprogramming Authority News Today

THE Democrats in the House of Representatives are considering the rejection of Republican Gov. Ralph DLG Torres’ Executive Order No. 2021-08, which renews the Finance secretary’s authority to reprogram funds.

Particular coastal facilities where water levels are rising. does this task force -- im going to withhold from using an adjective, does the task force have the authority to tell the pentagon to stop any of the actual efforts that are underway in countering climate-related damage? >> reporter: no, this gets back to programming authority and who controls the power of the purse. i mean, thats done by congress, right? and in the 2018 defense authorization act, they had provisions in there to study t...

With the emergency declaration that white house attorneys and attorneys at the doj spent weeks going through all of this. and if congress does pass legislation to block it, the president may veto that legislation. that would be his first veto. keep in mind, about half of the money thats been identified by the president so far can be gotten without that emergency declaration. this is money from the treasury departments forfeiture fun, its money that is included in antidrug efforts from the pentag...

Page bill. now to explain we have former kansas secretary of state kris kobach joining us from d.c. chris, how bad would the poison pill have to be for the president not to sign it? >> well, i can name at least three poison pills that would justify vetoing the bill. steve: okay. >> we know the democrats have been interested in inserting these pills. you can do it with just a couple of words. the big e. one is when it says 1.375 billion if it says no more than or only 1.375, that would take away ...

Listen here. >> you know, the numbers are almost $23 billion, which you dont report too often. its about an 8% increase over last year. so if you look at the total funding, its over -- almost up to $23 billion. its 8% higher. the border area is happening, its going to happen at a really rapid pace. >> of course the president still reserving the option to declare an emergency. thats something that he said on many different occasions, shep, he really doesnt want to do. i think things are more in f...

Giving him 1.3. need pretty good negotiating by the democrats. >> it is. its the equivalent of a child throwing temper tantrum, theyre in toys r us and they want the big toy and we give them the little car. were still rewarding a temper tantrum. >> no. we have a child throwing a temper tantrum and the parent says, you can do that if you want to but im going to the car, you will have a long walk home if you dont follow me, sonny boy. thats what nancy pelosi did to trump. there is $1.3 billion in ...

>> yes, sorry that were speaking under weird circumstances which is a new congress and an old shutdown. let me ask you this first question about the president today and this idea that he could declare basically a state of emergency of sorts and build his wall his way without congress. he believes he has that authority. do you believe he has that authority? >> im going to have to see where that authority is coming from. obviously congress delegates those funds and appropriates funds specifically ...