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It's not fucking "rare and contested." It's just blatantly violating the Constitution. Congress has control of the budget, not the president. It's his job to execute on the law, not to pick and choose which laws to follow.
If that were true then the president couldn’t cancel it 🤷♂️
The president does a lot of things that he isn't allowed until the courts tell him to fuck off. Just wastes valuable judge time having to babysit his every move because he doesn't know what he is doing.
You are wrong though. He or his handlers know exactly what they're doing. This has been his strategy his entire life. Break the law, then tie up the ensuing suits in the courts so long that he still effectively gets away with it and/or it costs his opposition too much to continue.
He is proof positive that delayed justice is not justice at all.
If murder is illegal then why are you dead? Boom, checkmate.
I mean, if the authorities don't arrest/charge then functionally yes. This demented old pedo has legit killed hundreds of thousands through inaction during Covid and killed millions globally by letting that dipshit Musk gut USAID. He's a murderer on par with any other fascist but will he see consequences?
Well, yeah, murder or sexual abuse against minors is illegal, yet you see the rich and powerful engage in these things constantly without consequence.
The law is words on paper, enforcement is what makes law reality, otherwise it's just a suggestion.
If you deny someone their life-saving medication you might go to jail for it. If a rich person does denies life-saving medication to someone because it makes them a few dollars more, they get praised for it.
They'll sue, it'll get overturned and the only losers are the taxpayers.
Sorry, is this your first visit to this timeline?
I was gonna say, does this not constitute a line item veto?