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View submission: Elon Musk can’t balance the budget
I read through this and the 'specifics' you mention are all obviously fake, designed to obfuscate and create a media circus. They make broad claims like "spending that is unauthorized by Congress" but when they list examples, the total $s don't match the headlines by orders of magnitude.
Even the headline of the article you link has a $500b not the $2T that the original Vox piece has front and center.
Comment by thekrone at 26/11/2024 at 05:18 UTC
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Also all funding is authorized by Congress. It's literally in the constitution that money can only be drawn from the Treasury by Law.
Some is done via an annual budget proposed by the president (instead of by legislation), yes. It's still approved by Congress.