is solely the responsibility of the House of Representatives? Doesn't all spending originate in the House? Isn't the President simply spending the money that has been allocated by the House to pay for the plethora of programs that they, themselves, have created?
as you saw in this fight,.. the effort to defund programs is not easy...
as well as the effort to uncouple the farm bill from the food-stamps welfare bill ..
the end result is a stalemate and an unfunded farm bill.. when all the effort was to rein in both..
Many of the worthless programs were put in as riders on more important favored bills,.. it is hard for them to vote against a military appropriation bill so some politicians gets a package of pork and straps it to the bill..
this is often one of those darned if we do darned if we don't...
I am not a fan of my local rino congressman.. but realize he would be replaced by a moderate democrat.. or worse a liberal democrat...
so I vote against him in every primary and hold my nose in most general elections.
but when you consider that when Obamacare came in by one or two votes.. (Collins / Snow).. had just one of them voted no we wouldn't be having this debate on this issue..
it shows how some of these programs are rammed through by a slim margin but for some reason never get enough votes to be removed from the federal ledger..
at least for now my rino is voting with his party.. but that is usually short term..