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Mnuchin pitches line-item veto: ‘Congress could pass a rule’
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
This is one of the pitfalls of appointing inexperienced elitist's to Cabinet positions. Then again, Mnuchin was only parroting the unconstitutional butt-hurt suggestion of Donald Trump. Kudos to Chris Wallace.
Related: Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998)
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
By David Weigel
March 25, 2018
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has urged lawmakers to give President Trump a line-item veto, saying on “Fox News Sunday” that it might prevent Democrats from stacking more nondefense discretionary spending into the next must-past budget bill. But Mnuchin’s short exchange with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace also underlined the problem with the idea — a 20-year-old Supreme Court ruling that struck down the line-item veto, finding “no provision in the Constitution that authorizes the president to enact, to amend or to repeal statutes,” after President Bill Clinton used it 82 times. “I think they should give the president a line-item veto,” said Mnuchin, echoing Trump’s comments after he signed last week’s omnibus budget bill. “That’s been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court,” Wallace said. “Well, again, Congress could pass a rule, okay, that allows them to do it,” Mnuchin said. “It would be a constitutional amendment,” Wallace said. “Chris, we don’t need to get into a debate,” the treasury secretary said. “There’s different ways of doing this.”
This is one of the pitfalls of appointing inexperienced elitist's to Cabinet positions. Then again, Mnuchin was only parroting the unconstitutional butt-hurt suggestion of Donald Trump. Kudos to Chris Wallace.
Related: Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998)