“As Washington gears up for epic negotiations over taxes and spending, another fiscal fight is unfolding in the background. This one isn’t about how much to spend, but about who controls that spending: Congress or the president?,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The Constitution assigns power of the purse to Congress. But in his early actions and words, President Trump is taking more of that power for himself. Rather than propose a budget, then wait for Congress to legislate actual spending, his administration froze a swath of federal grants (though it walked that back), cut other spending, such as on medical research overhead and foreign aid, and idled entire agencies.”
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