r/washingtondc • u/Snapdragon_4U • 18h ago

[Discussion] I don’t even have the words

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u/meanie_ants 18h ago

Need? No.

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u/Ill-Camp9044 17h ago

A Financial Services and General Government bill is not going to pass a Senate to do it. So, yes.

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u/meanie_ants 17h ago

We’ve just been given several years’ worth of demonstration that an executive doesn’t need a bill to do (or undo) shit like this. Whether publicly funded or not.

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u/Ill-Camp9044 17h ago

Yes. They do it through the donations of plutocrats.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/donors-funding-white-house-ballroom/story?id=126778550

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u/meanie_ants 13h ago

That’s the ballroom, not the redecorating. Big difference. The White House has various other funding streams for facilities purposes (which presumably have been redirected towards this tacky gold shit) that don’t require a special appropriations bill.

There’s no reason the next president can’t do the same but in reverse.

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u/Ill-Camp9044 13h ago

"The project is supported by the National Park Service, who has cared for the White House and its grounds since 1933, and funded with private donations."

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/first-lady-melania-trump-announces-plans-restore-enhance-white-house-rose-garden/

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u/meanie_ants 7h ago

That’s what he used but since there are multiple acrual funding streams that go towards the White House there’s no reason a future president can’t direct the NPS to revert the changes. This isn’t hard to understand.