The ALSO stuff is against the law.
exactly. and that is the point.
if they are doing 9 outright illegal things and 1 technically legal but immoral thing. packaged together under a singular package of "sanctuary city".
then we can confidentially call the package that is "sanctuary cities" illegal.
because they are NOT just carefully toeing the line and doing only "technically legal" things. They are brazenly breaking the law
But the president still doesn't have the power to stop funding the cities (that's congress). What he can do is hire more enforcement agents and mobilize the guard.
From a strict constitutional originalist perspective?
funding control is the power of congress.
But the democrats are the ones who created all this precedent of presidential powers being way more than what the constitution says.
We tried to warn them. We told them, that if they open that pandora box, they wouldn't like it when we get a president in.
They refused to listen.
Since the president is stepping on Congress' toes by doing so, then Congress is free to tell the president no...
but they are fully supporting the president on this subject.
because congress is currently held by the republican party who are actively supporting trump in this. which is exactly how previous democrat presidents created precedents.
And. just like they argued it is entirely within the president's remit to order the DAs to not answer calls about illegal invaders. You could also argue it is entirely within the president's remit to fire anyone in the treasury department that sends funds he does not agree to.
After all, congress' "control over the purse strings" lies in the passing of budget bills. Not in the actual physical distribution of funds, that part is done by the executive.
Ultimately, we have checks and balanced. President, Congress, Supreme Court.
If two of them agree on something, it gets done.
So currently we have Trump + Congress in lockstep. With Supreme court sometimes on trump's side and sometime's not.
This is what we voted for.
This is the will of the people being executed.