In addition to it being their responsibility to be a check and balance due to being a co-equal branch of government, specifically the article 1 branch in charge of the nation’s purse, they’re also entitled to unannounced access to any DHS facility specifically from the Appropriations law passed by Congress itself as a condition to monies disbursed for the purpose of detention or housing of “illegal aliens” (legal wording, not mine).
In order to enforce this right of oversight, usually a subpoena or command would be enough, however anticipating an article 2 body preventing the exercise of legal oversight, the house would be within their right to have the US House Sergeant at Arms accompany them to the appropriate facility they were interested in accessing and could invoke detention for inherent contempt of Congress.
Your decision to witting or unwittingly strawman the argument is noted and ignored.
The thing is, the GOP majority Congress already passed their budget and once made law by the executive branch the treasury, the purse, disbursed the money. So on that front there’s nothing Dems can do. Additionally, there is no “the appropriations bill” you didnt cite anything just now you just gestured in a vague direction. If your way to win arguments is to ask the other person to go search for read documents for hours then you will never convince anyone of anything.
The Seargent at Arms of Congress is William McFarland chosen by Republicans Kevin McCarthy and Mike Johnson.
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In addition to it being their responsibility to be a check and balance due to being a co-equal branch of government, specifically the article 1 branch in charge of the nation’s purse, they’re also entitled to unannounced access to any DHS facility specifically from the Appropriations law passed by Congress itself as a condition to monies disbursed for the purpose of detention or housing of “illegal aliens” (legal wording, not mine).
In order to enforce this right of oversight, usually a subpoena or command would be enough, however anticipating an article 2 body preventing the exercise of legal oversight, the house would be within their right to have the US House Sergeant at Arms accompany them to the appropriate facility they were interested in accessing and could invoke detention for inherent contempt of Congress.
Your decision to witting or unwittingly strawman the argument is noted and ignored.
The thing is, the GOP majority Congress already passed their budget and once made law by the executive branch the treasury, the purse, disbursed the money. So on that front there’s nothing Dems can do. Additionally, there is no “the appropriations bill” you didnt cite anything just now you just gestured in a vague direction. If your way to win arguments is to ask the other person to go search for read documents for hours then you will never convince anyone of anything.
The Seargent at Arms of Congress is William McFarland chosen by Republicans Kevin McCarthy and Mike Johnson.