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RE: Mowing the Lawn at the Lincoln Memorial
The whole reason for the shutdown is that there was no money to pay the costs of each department. Bills to fund the government, constitutionally, originate in the House. The president can propose legislation, but he cannot unilaterally make the decision to re-open the government. If that was the case, there would have been no need for the shutdown in the first place. He has to have something to sign, and that something comes from Congress.
As for the debt ceiling, which is a different animal altogether, some scholars believe the president has the ability to bypass Congress since it would be unconstitutional to not pay the government's debt. That would be for the Supreme Court to determine.
Best
Rob
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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Mowing the Lawn at the Lincoln Memorial
