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The city should have the same feeling it had when United won , but it definitely doesn’t and that’s a whole other story

Ugh.. brain dead tweets on its own is one thing. But now we have higher inflation, consumer confidence and spending down, lower GDP growth forecasts, and a stock market giving back all its gains But Mexican people are getting deported so it’s all good right guys

🤣🤣🤣 More false claims but we understand. An article from that well known conservative news source Fox News had an article in May 2024 showing that Biden lied when he claimed inflation was at 9% when he took office. In fact the change in prices in the year leading up to Biden’s inauguration was 1.4%. It rose to just over 9% 16 months after he took office. His claim was completely false. WAIT, I am so sorry, I made a mistake. It wasn’t Fox News, it was CNN that well known ultra liberal news outlet [Hidden Content]

Yes and no. Assuming that I have a grasp on a little (or never) used law Can a president line item veto a budget? No. Congress passed a bill when Bill Clinton was in office to allow a line item veto. He used a line item veto against New York City and they sued all the way to the Supreme Court. NYC won. Under the separation of powers, Congress passes what money can be spent and the president can only veto or accept. The Supreme Court also ruled that a president is obligated to carry out the money spent. So if Congress approves money for 100 new battle tanks, the president cannot refuse to build those tanks and he cannot use the money elsewhere. That is within the authority of Congress. The president’s constitutional authority is to veto or accept. So can a president veto a budget item? Yes. You might ask, WHAT? I thought the president could not veto something that Congress has passed as a line item. He has to accept all or nothing. Correct. However….. In the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, after a budget item is signed into law ordering the president to carry out many actions, the president in writing can ask if Congress will approve a change to their spending items if he sees something that is not needed or wanted. For example, let’s say that Congress passes a budget authorizing an $800B budget to keep the government running until September. The president’s constitutional authority at that point is to sign it into law completely or to veto it and potentially shut down the government. Not wanting to shut down the government, he signs the bill. In that bill is $20B for the Department of Education. The president does not want to spend that money, however he cannot line item it. Under the Impoundment Control Act, he can send that written request to Congress to review that particular part of the budget and ask them to delete it. Congress if within 45 days take no action m, case it is over and the money is still in the budget. Congress can bring the request up for a vote however. If it passes both chambers, the item is removed or essentially a veto by “request” is granted. This would not conflict with the Supreme Court ruling on the line item veto because it would not be the president going against the separation of powers on the budget but Congress itself would make the change and they do have that constitutional authority. But wait….. The Senate rules require 60 votes in cloture to end the filibuster and allow it to come up for a vote. With currently 53 Republican senators, there is no way that seven Democrat senators are going to support the president and vote for cloture. But wait….. The Impoundment Control Act only requires a simple majority vote. So with control of both houses, the Republican Congress could pass the bill to uphold the president’s request for a kill a line item by one vote in each house. Will the Republican Congress back up the president if he requests deleting a budget item? We don’t know. Also can the Act allow the cutting of a budget item from a previous Congress? Like if the last Congress under Biden passed the budget to spend $25B annually for the next four years on a program, can the current Congress undo what the previous Congress authorized? I don’t know. Is there a time frame built into the Act such as a president has 180 days to request amending a budget item? I don’t know. Congress always has the authority to change the budget under the regular passing of any law but they always run up against the rule on cloture. Under the Impoundment Control Act, it changes the game. Will it ever be used……..

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I agree

I saw this on FB. Where is Houston? Boys 🏀 State Championship Results (DFW: 5 Houston:0 Beaumont:1) 4A D1 Dallas Kimball✅ 4A D2 Kennedale✅ 5A D2 Mansfield Summit✅ 6A D1 Duncanville✅ 6A D2 Denton Guyer✅ It's DIFFERENT in the PLEX! #DFWvsEverybody

Unable to make today's game, but the Birds win a tight ball game 3-2. SFA head coach got tossed. Don't know all the details.

It'll just be something else for folks to complain about if we're being honest 🤷🏾‍♂️

All tournament teams [Hidden Content] 5A DI Elijah Garrett (MVP) West Brook Terry Satcher West Brook Dillon Dodson West Brook 3A DI Devon Vienneau Onalaska 3A DII Zac Sells (MVP) Kountze Mason Donald Kountze Jermaine Warren Kountze

All it takes to be a rising star in the communist party is a big mouth and no policy.

Great job West Brook! Very happy for them and Coach T. I would say Southeast Texas showed pretty well this year in SA.

I believe he was injured for a large part of the season.

I wish it could have gone into overtime. I can't imagine what that would have been like. Credit to the refs for letting them play. Thoroughly enjoyed that game. True, it was rough around the edges but the effort, 100% all the time, no slack.

Sitting under a republican mandate, watching your programs, insane woke agendas and money pit projects get taken away... this sort of thing is all y'all have left. It's funny watching it play out in the media, and on here as well.

As a somewhat moderate conservative I had real hopes that the dems would take a lesson from this last election cycle and move back to the middle some. Not because I want to vote for them, but because with the two parties so polarized it's difficult to get a lot of things done. But I guess this is the next best thing. If everyone is doing okay at the end of 4 years Vance will cakewalk to victory in the next election. Maybe then the libs will figure out where they went wrong, I dunno.

It's the kind of things that can happen when the grown ups are in charge. The democrats proved that there are no grown ups in their group last night.

All we needed was a new PRESIDENT. Great line.

BH 7 Dayton 0 BH 10 Ball 0 Clear Creek 6 BH 4 BH 5 Grand Oaks 3 BH 4 North Shore 1 BH 3 North Shore 1 BH 9 Dawson 0 BH 9 Porter 4 Strong start for The Hill.

Because of its consistency, Silsbee has been the standard in 4A. The names and faces have changed out of DFW and hasn’t been one particular school like Silsbee.

Over the last 10 seasons, Silsbee was 15-2 vs. Houston ISD schools in the playoffs. Silsbee has basically been running 4A Region III for the last 20 years. You had to beat them to win the region or Silsbee won the region. Only three seasons in the last 20 where a team won the region without beating Silsbee or Silsbee won the region. If Wheatley beats Yates tomorrow night, then that will make 18 out of last 21 seasons that the 4A Region III champ was either Silsbee or a team that eliminated Silsbee from the playoffs. This 2nd round exit breaks a streak of 4 straight regional final appearances (9 of last 10 years Silsbee made regional finals). Over the last 20 years, Silsbee played for the regional championship 14 times, winning it 7 times. I agree, some rarified air.