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beef-medallions t1_jczk4vc wrote

Maybe Biden could improve Americas mental health by spending our tax dollars on things that actually improve our lives.

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Citadelvania t1_jd03aw4 wrote

...that's not the job of the president? Since when does the president choose how tax dollars are spent?

I mean "power of the purse" is explicitly a congressional power and when Biden tried to cancel student loans (which strictly speaking isn't actually giving money it's more like declining to ask for owed money) he got sued and it got stopped because he's explicitly not allowed to dictate how tax dollars are spent.

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