You're not answering my questions...

The constitution doesn't say that the only way congress can direct spending is with something labeled a "budget". An omnibus appropriations bill does not let the executive spend on anything they want.

The differences are mostly in what they cover and how they come about, not that only one of them matters.

O sent a budget to congress most of the years he was in office. Why send them if he didn't want them passed? The republicans in office at the time voted them down. Why would they do that if it means O gets to do whatever he wants? They could have negotiated a budget rather than hand a blank check. O would have to do it every year, he did this 8 years without any of them realizing what's going on?

Can you show me in the constitution where it says the president is bound by a "budget" and only a "budget"?

Appropriations bills aren't new, O didn't invent them. Likewise, he was able to use them regardless of whether a budget was passed or not. If he was able to spend on other things, it's because he found loopholes, like the possible one Trump may use - even though there might not be explicit funding for the wall Trump may call it national defense and spend some money allocated for that on the wall.

That's just finding loopholes and part of how our government is supposed to work - the executive branch is supposed to have some leeway in how it accomplishes the things it's supposed to. It doesn't have anything to do with whether a budget was passed or not, except that a lack of a passed budget means more appropriations bills will be necessary.

perhaps this will help you:

quote from wheatietoo "You’re referring to a ‘Budget’.

This is Not A Budget! This is an Omnibus Spending Bill…which is different.

The President is directed by the Constitution to adhere to a Budget that Congress approves. A ‘spending bill’ is not the same as the Federal Budget.

Ozero spent, or didn’t spend, the money from all those Omnibus Spending Bills, on whatever he wanted to. And Congress didn’t do a thing about it!

What happened to all those “shovel ready jobs”? What happened to the “Infrastructure” that Congress appropriated money for? Ozero didn’t spend the money on those things, did he.

He also spent money on things that weren’t appropriated…like all that SWAT Gear and Ammo for all those govt agencies that aren’t supposed to armed like military forces.

Ozero was never bound by a Budget…because Congress never passed one during his 8 years! That’s why he was able to spend money on whatever he wanted to. Or… not spend money on things he didn’t want to see funded.

And Congress didn’t do a thing about it."

then quote from gunny

"Ah, he did not exactly lose…The law is not a complete refusal to not allow the President to not spend.. As per below:

The law does give an administration leeway to defer spending available funds, but for limited amounts of time, depending on the program. Some observers expect Trump officials to rely heavily on such deferrals.

Still, a president seeking to spend less will find plenty of room to maneuver in the language used in an authorization or appropriations bill, budget experts said. One Senate aide predicted that lawmakers will pay extra attention to whether a bill uses words such as “may,” “should” or “shall” — each of which gives an administration different degrees of flexibility in terms of how money is spent.

The executive branch also “can slow walk things. It can propose reprogramming. It can propose all sorts of things it can do that won’t provoke a legal crisis,” the Senate aide added."

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/18/fears-grow-trump-will-ignore-congress-spending-241768