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A president who refuses to spend funds Congress has appropriated effectively seizes Congress's power of the purse.
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- Heather Cox Richardson Professor of History at Boston College
If the president can decide not to fund programs Congress has appropriated funding for, he effectively takes over the power of the purse.
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