Doing truly amazing things in baseball just hits totally different than in other sports, and doing amazing stuff on the mound hits differently than at the plate. So awesome to watch.

Seeing a misconception that a government shutdown means the US is out of money; it is not. The Treasury has $851 billion in its account, ready to spend. The shutdown is about lacking *Congressional authority* to spend on discretionary operations. Congress has power of purse.

Model Y Standard & Model 3 Standard are here

Let's go Caps!

I count 213 Dems would would probably vote against adjournment. Add Massie, MTG, and Kiley, and now you can block an adjournment. That alone suggests the adjournment is in doubt.

I have absolutely no problem with the House not being in session if it does not want to be; but I have a huge problem with the House not being in session if it *does* want to be but can't get past a unilateral decision of the Speaker to remain out.

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The next Congress should, at a minimum, put a cap on the maximum number of unilaterally declared district work period days per month.

I sincerely wonder what the vote would be on a motion to adjourn from the pro forma sessions if the Speaker didn't have the unilateral authority under the district work period loophole. Not obvious to me that adjournment would win.

Here you go:

My take on shutdown dynamics this week.

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As long as we're all talking about it anyway, I will reissue my long-standing plea to Congress that they once and for all bar DoD from using the word "reprogramming" to describe both reprogrammings and transfers.

The corollary to this chicken/egg argument that is otherwise a semantic one--the practical outcome could be exactly the same, but Dems want/need to see their strategy validated while Republicans can't abide a sanctioned policy-ransom-for-CR going forward.

Oh, it seems that Democrats have stopped consenting to allowing Thune to enter motions to reconsider without being on the prevailing side (or not having voted).

Looking back, Barack Obama's decision to fix Obamacare's flaws without Congress may be seen as a historical watershed. U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell is much too little-known. Great discussion in a new piece @thehill by my @AEI colleague @ChrisStirewalt.

One note: I do think @BBKogan slightly overstates the color of xferred $ wrt one problem with an RDTE-->milpers xfer; it's not *always* true that it takes the character of the receiving account. But that's more or less irrelevant given that admin is junking entire xfer framework.

I will write in more detail on Friday, when the picture is clearer and I have time to more carefully study the admin actions. Sigh. /end

Of course, public opinion and congressional action can still hold an exec in check, even under these conditions. But the framework of the constitution and the rule of appropriations law are a chesteron's fence you don't want to knock over. I'm afraid we are on our way.

That of course, assumes the executive doesn't start spending money *beyond* the total appropriation of Congress. (Bobby hints at that, but I see that as a totally different level of crazy, that would blow *supply* out of the water as a check).

If impoundments are legal (refusal to spend) and purpose limitations unenforceable, you really are essentially just back to 16th century supply, where the only check the legislature has is on the total amount of money provided. https://t.co/Q4VuJRsLGu

Go ahead and forget about Dems can bargain over approps if POTUS and GOP majority can rescind it. How can Congress appropriate if POTUS can simply ignore purpose limitations?

But this isn't about partisan implications. As last 800 years of Anglo-American history have routinely shown, you wan legislature and law in control of the money. Whatever the merits of paying the troops--and I support it--this is another huge blow to congressional authority.