Reply #4: And Yet, It Hardly Seems The Stuff Of Promotability

[ProfessorGAC]

Besides, once it's appropriated, there is nothing that FORCES the administration to spend all the money, as long as the enforcement of laws are not impeded. (After all that's the first duty of the executive branch, enforcing the laws. It's NOT to protect us! That's a post-9/11 coward's definition.)

The Clinton administration did it with the first three budgets. They raised marginal rates and then insisted on cabinet departments doing their best to UNDERSPEND the budgets passed. That's why the reversal of deficits to balance happened so fast! (Plus a true economic expansion as opposed to this artificial nonsense extant today.)
The Professor