{"id":17684,"date":"2025-05-08T20:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17684"},"modified":"2025-05-08T20:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:59:17","slug":"can-the-president-refuse-to-spend-money-authorized-by-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17684","title":{"rendered":"Can the President Refuse To Spend Money Authorized by Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Constitution grants Congress the sole power of the purse. The executive branch is tasked with faithfully executing the laws Congress passes. If Congress passes a law saying jump, it&#8217;s the president&#8217;s job to jump. And if Congress passes a law that says spend, it&#8217;s the president&#8217;s job to spend.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/03\/what-if-the-president-doesnt-want-to-spend-money\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/03\/what-if-the-president-doesnt-want-to-spend-money<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Constitution grants Congress the sole power of the purse. The executive branch is tasked with faithfully executing the laws Congress passes. If Congress passes a law saying jump, it&#8217;s the president&#8217;s job to jump. And if Congress passes a law that says spend, it&#8217;s the president&#8217;s job to spend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/05\/03\/what-if-the-president-doesnt-want-to-spend-money\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,429,1193,694,2180,222,279],"class_list":["post-17684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-government-spending","tag-power","tag-power-of-the-purse","tag-president","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17685,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17684\/revisions\/17685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}