[ExI] Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency

[Adrian Tymes]

> >>... Congress paid for it John.  If they don’t like it, they can cut DHS’s budget.
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> >...This is not the use that Congress authorized.  It'd be akin to a board of directors approving a security budget for a corporation, then the person in charge of security decides to spend some of the budget bribing shareholders to vote out part of the board.  The laws against doing that with government money are stricter - if they get enforced - but it is illegal.
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> OK, cut the DHS budget.  If congress decides these ads are illegal, impeach the president.  That is what the impeachment process is for.  Unless congress acts, congress is responsible for those ads.

Congress is responsible for its refusal to act (to cut DHS's budget
and to impeach the President) in response to these illegal actions.
It is not responsible for the illegal actions themselves.