Reply #4: Isn't that the point?

[holdencaufield]

"they are going to try to run our foreign policy by controlling the purse strings"

Did I fall asleep in civics class? Or isn't this the entire point of the a tripartite government. Executive can make decisions, decisions must be funded by congress and pronounced legal by the legislative branch. That is how the US Constitution prevents too much power from falling into the hands of a single branch of government.

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." -- James Madison