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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 -- i'm 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, that's done by congress, right? and in the 2018 defense authorization act, they had provisions in there to study the ten bases, ten military installations that would be most freaked. with all the talk the plannin...
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 that's been identified by the president so far can be gotten without that emergency declaration. this is money from the treasury department's forfeiture fun, it's money that is included in antidrug efforts from the pentagon, and then there are some other pots of money that have to be either transferred over using rep...
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 the president's authority that exists in other laws to spend defense department money and other mone...
Listen here. >> you know, the numbers are almost $23 billion, which you don't report too often. it's about an 8% increase over last year. so if you look at the total funding, it's over -- almost up to $23 billion. it's 8% higher. the border area is happening, it's going to happen at a really rapid pace. >> of course the president still reserving the option to declare an emergency. that's something that he said on many different occasions, shep, he really doesn't want to do. i think things are more in flux at this moment than they were yesterday. we'll see. >> shepard: interesting. there's this...