There's no explicit power to shut down the government in the constitution, none. And actually THERE IS a provision that the government must maintain the full faith and credit of the United States. What congress did was in violation of the Constitution.
And it's a continued lie to call President Bill Clinton a "rapist and serial sex offender". More laughable since there a plenty of Republicans that have had the same issues, except they were never bubbled up. That included your idol and god, Ronald Reagan..
Gipper the Ripper? - Slate Magazine
Wrong again, buckwheat.
It is the POTUS' responsibility to work within the budget parameters set by the House. Not the other way around.
The House didn't shut the government down, the rapist did. And if it happens this time around, it will be the fault of the Stuttering Clusterfuck.
EVERYBODY knows that. Well, people with an above-room-temperature IQ know it anyway.
But the problem is, the DISGUSTING FILTH in the LSM did/will make it look like the Republicans were/are at fault.
They did it last time and they'll do it again. Perception is reality and in the game of politics, perception is what matters.
Just that, on a factual basis, you don't know what the **** you're talking about.
As usual
Guide to the Constitution
In The Federalist No. 58, James Madison described the centrality of the power of the purse's role in the growth of representative government and its particular importance in the Constitution's governmental structure:
The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose the supplies requisite for the support of the government. They, in a word, hold the purse—that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant and humble representation of the people gradually enlarging the sphere of its activity and importance, and finally reducing, as far as it seems to have wished, all the overgrown prerogatives of the other branches of government. This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.