Anonymous ID: 879452 Feb. 16, 2019, 11:26 p.m. No.5219046   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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>https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-by-the-president-28/

 

In particular, Division D, section 713, prohibits the use of appropriations to pay the salary of any Federal officer or employee who interferes with or prohibits certain official communications between Federal employees and Members of Congress or of any Federal officer or employee who takes adverse action against an officer or employee because of such communications. I will construe these provisions not to apply to circumstances that would detract from my authority to supervise, control, and correct communications by Federal officers and employees with the Congress related to their official duties, including in cases where such communications would be unlawful or could reveal confidential information protected by executive privilege.

Anonymous ID: 879452 Feb. 16, 2019, 11:28 p.m. No.5219064   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Certain provisions (such as Division F, section 7064; and Division G, section 418) prohibit the use of funds to deny an Inspector General access to agency records or documents. I will construe these, and similar provisions, consistent with my authority to control the dissemination of information protected by executive privilege.

 

Certain provisions prohibit the use of funds to recommend certain legislation to the Congress (Division B, section 715), or require recommendations of certain legislation to the Congress (Division A, section 537). Because the Constitution gives the President the authority to recommend โ€œsuch Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedientโ€, my Administration will continue the practice of treating provisions like these as advisory and non-binding.

Anonymous ID: 879452 Feb. 16, 2019, 11:29 p.m. No.5219078   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Numerous provisions purport, in certain circumstances, to condition the authority of officers to spend or reallocate funds on the approval of congressional committees (Division B, sections 702, 706, and 716(a), (b); Division E, sections 403 and 409; Division G, sections 188, 405, and 406). These are impermissible forms of congressional aggrandizement in the execution of the laws other than by the enactment of statutes. My Administration will make appropriate efforts to notify the relevant committees before taking the specified actions and will accord the recommendations of such committees all appropriate and serious consideration, but it will not treat spending decisions as dependent on the approval of congressional committees.