TemplarKormac
Political Atheist
So, might I ask, where does he derive his authority to do it?That only applies to laws written to specifically fund certain things. If all the law is say "do this" and some executive branch flunky designated the actual allocations, then all the President has to do is remove the designations.
I would think since he is only reinterpreting something in the ACA (namely Section 1557), that he isn't creating new legislation or creating new purposes for the funding.
But I could be wrong. I always interpreted any attempt to alter the nature of the funding, or allowing, and restricting it to require Congressional action.