Which in turn highlights the problem with all these omnibus bills where you have to vote for the bombs for genocide bill if you want school lunch funding. Doesn’t invalidate your point, but US politics is beyond bonkers.
Back in the 90s there use to be this cool thing called the “line item veto” where the president could strike certain parts of a bill and congress would need 2/3 to put it back in. Really helped with these omnibus bills, but congress didn’t like that the president could see through the bullshit and voted to take it away, so now it’s back to all or nothing
Congress didn’t take it away. The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution doesn’t give the President the power to veto just one part of a bill. The veto is an all or nothing power. (Which also how the UK royal assent worked at the time the US Constitution was written.)
Which in turn highlights the problem with all these omnibus bills where you have to vote for the bombs for genocide bill if you want school lunch funding. Doesn’t invalidate your point, but US politics is beyond bonkers.
Back in the 90s there use to be this cool thing called the “line item veto” where the president could strike certain parts of a bill and congress would need 2/3 to put it back in. Really helped with these omnibus bills, but congress didn’t like that the president could see through the bullshit and voted to take it away, so now it’s back to all or nothing
Congress didn’t take it away. The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution doesn’t give the President the power to veto just one part of a bill. The veto is an all or nothing power. (Which also how the UK royal assent worked at the time the US Constitution was written.)
Ah thank you for the clarification