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Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya "Lethal Precision" Bidniss :CIAverified: 🇺🇸") wrote:
David Super, the Carmack Waterhouse professor of law and economics at Georgetown University Law Center, said while Congress has given the government a broad authority to accept gifts, spending those funds without congressional appropriation would be unconstitutional and a violation of the Antideficiency Act.
“Whether the government is or is not lawfully paying the troops salaries can’t depend on this gift. It has to depend on whether there is another appropriation available for this cost, and I don’t think there is. And if there isn’t, then they can take the gift and hold it, but they can’t spend it without approval of Congress,” Super told Federal News Network. #military #DOD https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/can-dod-use-private-funds-to-pay-troops-during-shutdown/