When is an executive decision a good idea? I ask due to the experience of our congressmen and woman who spend near countless hours in deliberations and exploring documents aimed to change American policies. If experience matters, and the new guy on top decides to make an executive decision against the advice and rulings of the house, then I question when it would sincerely be justifiable to do so.
When you have a large group of people, often with many biased, and even polarized to each other, trying to make a decision that is good for all, it often takes lot of time. It can also become very wasteful, if the compromise to give everyone what they want to get the votes; pork barrel and more and more national debt. The Founding fathers saw this potential problem and decided they needed one person to be able to take action to make a quicker and cheaper decisions for all.
The analogy is we have 100 people deciding on the menu for a formal dinner. Some want steak and other want seafood, other want vegan and others want a buffet. The event is quickly approaching and still there is no majority. To meet the deadline they decide to give everyone what they want which adds more cost since there is more specialty cooking and more pots and pans. The way around will be to have the executive listen and then make a decision for all that nobody may fully like. But it gets done and serves the purpose.
The founding fathers also created checks and balances, via the House of Representatives being the only branch of government that is able to legally spend money. This sets limits on what the group and/or the executive can do in terms of spending; costs. However, it does not limit the ingenuity of the executive decisions, using the allocated money. This is where the executive gets to be creative.
In the modern example of illegal immigration, President Biden had the right to make that executive order to allow more immigration, however his ingenuity for dealing with the excess immigration, has led to extra costs way beyond what was funded. This is Unconstitutional and exceeds the executive right since the executive cannot spend money not approved by Congress. If the 100 people decide there is $10,000 to spend on the venue, dinner, drinks and tips, that is all he can spend. The executive decision cannot spend $20,000.
Former President Trump also made an executive decision about how to deal with immigration, which was also within his rights as the executive. However, he worked within the budget approved by Congress, by being creative with money already allocated to other but related departments. For example, he made this a national security issue and therefore could use executive power to divert funds and manpower from appropriated Military spending; help build the wall.
Biden on the other hand, has created huge social costs to border and now sanctuary states that was never approved by Congress and is based on borrowing from the future over $100 billion. This is an example of what is not within the scope of the executive branch. Biden and his team illegally rip-off of the tax payers, by illegally using their credit card. This illegal activity is part of the reason half the current Congress is slow to approve more funding, since many do not wish to participate and/or bail out the executive crimes. However, some other will allocate money but only if the illegal spending is stoped; enforced the already existing laws. But the bill offered, continued illegal spending. It was voted down.
Technically, since Congress did not approve that huge cost against the future, nor was existing money moved around from already allocated funds, the tax payer is not liable. If someone stole your credit card or used it beyond your approval, it covered by insurance or the justice system; stealing. So where will the money come from, to pay compensatory damages created for the cities, states and tax payers, that was not approved by Congress? This is new and it may have to come from the DNC who ran and still approves the rip off scam. They will raise $billions for all the elections and this could be as good down payment.
