Trump to circumvent Congress with order to pay all DHS workers - Axios
President Trump announced an executive order to pay DHS workers, potentially bypassing congressional appropriation authority during the department's shutdown.
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President Trump announced plans to sign an executive order to pay all DHS employees, bypassing a deadlocked Congress during a record-long agency shutdown. This move tests the legal limits of executive power and the 150-year-old Antideficiency Act.
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