Such projects may be undertaken only within the total amount of funds that have been appropriated for military construction, including funds appropriated for family housing, that have not been obligated.
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The House cites funds appropriated for the construction of the wall.
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"There's still money left that was appropriated for Ebola," Blunt told reporters.
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Unfortunately, to date, insufficient federal dollars have been appropriated for this purpose.
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Factoring money appropriated for Homeland Security raises the cost to $20163 trillion.
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His instrument was all kinds of found objects that he appropriated for music.
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In Puerto Rico now, FEMA is using funds appropriated for Hurricane Harvey relief.
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They could start by rescinding the $500 million appropriated for Planned Parenthood, or the $85033 million appropriated to fund international family planning, or billions in foreign aid, including $200 million for promoting democracy in Europe, or the additional $2.4 billion appropriated for Community Development Block Grants, or the additional $1 billion appropriated for the transportation project grant program inaugurated by President Obama's "stimulus" package, or, well, you get the idea.
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And containment need not cost the $750bn a year that has been appropriated for defence.
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He also raised concerns that the agency's budget had not been appropriated for that purpose.
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"These funds were neither requested nor appropriated for the activities described in the reprogramming," Visclosky wrote.
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Democrats have been adamant that the money not be appropriated for more detention centers for families.
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It disbanded in March after spending $766 million of the $85033 million Congress appropriated for it.
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Both proposals would keep funding for border fencing at the same level as Congress appropriated for 2018.
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Trump's order would allow him to spend on the wall money that Congress appropriated for other purposes.
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New funds appropriated for the coronavirus emergency response should be put into the Public Health Emergency Fund.
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Trump's order would allow him to spend money on the wall that Congress appropriated for other purposes.
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They also say the agency can't do research when there hasn't been any money appropriated for it.
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"You don't hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative," said GOP Sen.
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I mean, wow, that's a low meme moment to have your popular single appropriated for West Nile awareness.
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The tariff produced a massive surplus in revenue, which was appropriated for ever- generous pensions for Union soldiers.
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It's an old sales-office tradition, appropriated for a new era — much like the Jukin licensing scheme itself.
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Nixon had been "impounding" (refusing to spend) money Congress had appropriated for particular projects, including the Clean Water Act.
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Democrats are broadly opposed to Trump's wall and argue Homeland Security already has enough funding appropriated for border security.
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The money made available by the emergency declaration will come from funds appropriated for military-construction projects, around $3.5bn.
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Both proposals would keep funding for border fencing at the same level as Congress appropriated for 2018: $1.3 billion.
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He added that it could include cuts of funds appropriated for 2016 and 2017 that have not been spent.
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Last year, he says, $152.3 million in federal funding was appropriated for prevention, the same as eight years earlier.
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They argued that Trump had no legal authority to spend more than what Congress appropriated for the wall project.
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In his last full fiscal year in office, funds appropriated for Central America hit a high of $754 million.
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In March, $380 million was appropriated for states to fix their voting security as part of an omnibus spending bill.
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In fiscal year 2012, when only the GOP had a competitive primary, $113 million was appropriated for presidential candidate protection.
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Such land is at risk of being appropriated for financial gain by powerful people like politicians and landlords, he said.
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The recovery from Harvey will require even more money than the package Congress appropriated for Hurricane Katrina relief, he said.
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Rubio said Wednesday that Trump's declaration is troubling because it would take away money Congress appropriated for military construction projects.
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Finally, it has a tendency to slide into disreputable territory, since its name is sometimes appropriated for less desirable cuts.
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Because what you often find is that men have appropriated for themselves the right to speak on behalf of women.
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Can rituals that are so deeply embedded in the preservation of patriarchal political power be productively appropriated for political change?
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For instance, as part of the 1619 Project, The Magazine looked at how black music has been appropriated for centuries.
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His advisers have identified billions of dollars appropriated for military projects that Mr Trump could in theory redirect to wall-building.
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Democratic leaders have since retrenched their offer, proposing $22019 billion — the same amount Congress appropriated for fiscal 2018 — for border fencing.
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Our culture is constantly appropriated for profit and people outside of our communities are often called upon to tell our stories.
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That is the same level of funding Congress appropriated for border security measures last year, including barriers, but not concrete walls.
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The men in these societies have largely appropriated for themselves the making of the rules and the content of the laws.
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That decision led President Donald Trump to demand all the money appropriated for the project by the federal government be returned.
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As a policy bill, the NDAA can proceed regardless, but any money in the bill not appropriated for can't be used.
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Both the House and the Senate will ultimately come up with how funds should be appropriated for NASA's budget later this year.
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In a letter to Congress, the administration said money appropriated for the purchase of aircraft will instead be spent on wall construction.
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The president does not have the legal authority to spend money appropriated for one purpose on another task, such as wall-building.
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The president declared a national emergency last year to allow him to use money not appropriated for the wall to build it.
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A federal court issued a temporary injunction to prevent him from using funds appropriated for other purposes to construct a border wall.
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Opponents may have more traction arguing that the president is unlawfully trying to tap funds Congress appropriated for the Pentagon, the experts said.
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The grants, which were part of the $10 million Congress appropriated for the Department of Homeland Security's countering violent extremism programs, or CVE.
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That represents one third of the more than $11 billion Congress authorized and appropriated for the fund in the fiscal 2019 defense budget.
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Declaring an emergency could allow Trump to circumvent Congress and repurpose funds Congress has appropriated for other purposes in order to build a wall.
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His administration argues that declaring a national emergency, which he did on February 2000th, gives him access to $22010bn appropriated for military-construction projects.
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" "I also think that it's ridiculous that we're even having this conversation because they haven't spent the money that's been appropriated for the wall.
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The two parties continued to argue over how much money should be appropriated for the rest of this fiscal year, which ends on Sept.
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Last summer the State Department announced that it would not be using $230 million that had been appropriated for stabilization efforts in the country.
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It all depends if lawmakers can come to an agreement in the next few months on how funds should be appropriated for fiscal year 2019.
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However, funding for the Department of Defense has already been appropriated for fiscal year 2019, so a partial shutdown won't affect the US Air Force.
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Trump declared the emergency last month after a congressional funding bill failed to meet his demand that $85033 billion be appropriated for his border wall.
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The request for federal assistance could touch a nerve with Trump, whose administration has been slow to release the funds appropriated for Puerto Rico's reconstruction.
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Desperate to save face, the president and his team cooked up a nonemergency emergency with the aim of seizing funds already appropriated for other purposes.
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That's about $22015 billion above last year's total and a fivefold increase above the $1.375 billion which Congress actually appropriated for new wall construction in 2020.
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Today, chunks of it have been appropriated for national highways and look like a suburban blightscape: pachinko gambling parlors, chain ramen shops, big-box drug stores.
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As the ICA notes, a president can't apply his own policy priorities to funds that have already been appropriated for a specific, different purpose by Congress.
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If money is appropriated for a Stafford Act declaration, advocates worry Trump could direct it toward law enforcement and building a border wall, rather than treatment.
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The time has come to turn on the hose, to put out the fire, to spend the money that our government rightly has appropriated for this purpose.
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That's three times more funding than Texas was eligible to receive for Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and nearly double what was appropriated for Hurricane Sandy in 2013.
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"I just don't think you can repurpose more than $5 billion from the defense budget for purposes unrelated to what the money was appropriated for," she added.
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We propose that this scoring system will result in more efficient and effective government operations, with money cautiously appropriated for that which the evidence suggests will work.
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Under the White House's proposed 2018 budget, $1.6 billion would be appropriated for construction of a wall out of $2.7 billion slated for border security in general.
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In a 245-182 vote, the Democratic-majority House rejected Trump's assertion that he could use money for the wall that Congress had appropriated for other purposes.
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Partisan infighting prevented special funds from being appropriated for this endeavor, although Congressional leaders have said that they intend to appropriate the necessary funds in the future.
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To that end, the administration could face legal challenges on what statutes he relies on to merit pulling from funds that haven't been appropriated for his wall.
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It reads: Prohibition Against Use of Appropriated Funds for Busing No funds appropriated for any applicable program may be used for the transportation of students or teachers (or the purchase of equipment for such transportation) to overcome a racial imbalance in any school or school system or to carry out a plan of racial desegregation, except for funds appropriated for the Impact Aid program authorized by Title VIII of the ESEA.
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Nixon was effectively eliminating programs he didn't want by simply refusing to spend the money Congress appropriated for it, censuring lawmakers for contributing to inflation and huge deficits.
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Many Republicans argue the CDC has essentially engaged in self-censorship, but advocates say the agency can't do research when there hasn't been any money appropriated for it.
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The administration is using funds appropriated for the wall, as well as Defense Department funds, to fulfill the President's pledge to erect new barriers along the southern border.
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In February Trump declared a national emergency to help build a border wall, which would allow him to spend money on it that Congress had appropriated for other purposes.
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All told, the Secret Service was allocated $203.68 million in the 2016 fiscal year for presidential candidate protection, almost double the $113 appropriated for presidential candidate protection in 2012.
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In addition to leftover money from a previous grant and other funds appropriated for elections, the state has about $10 million to help local officials shore up their security.
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The president and leaders of Congress have an agreement over how much money should be appropriated for the agencies for fiscal 2020, which began more than a month ago.
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And if Robert Aldrich's 1962 feature has often been appropriated for camp, it is hardly a funny movie; the queasy, claustrophobic dynamic between the stars is tough to watch.
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The law authorized $50 million to be appropriated for exploratory state programs, but the funds never made it out of Congress and weren't in President Obama's most recent budget.
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But by late fall, after funding was appropriated for the year, enrollment slipped to nine after a family got on a plane and flew off to live somewhere else.
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As the film begins we see Broodthaers seated in a small garden that he's appropriated for the museum, dipping his pen in an inkwell and writing intently in a notebook.
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He needs some money appropriated for a wall (or maybe he'll get Mexico to pay for it) and to beef up the border patrol, but that's easy enough to get.
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But pork-minded legislators on both sides of the aisle are pushing back, trying to get as much as $28503 million appropriated for the facility in this year's energy bill.
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According to the Post, Patenaude expressed concern in fall 2018 over the Trump administration's attempt to block disaster-recovery money Congress appropriated for the island and states hit by hurricanes.
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However, these are predicated on customers already using those apps as communications channels to begin with, and being amenable to those channels getting appropriated for use as customer service platforms.
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And thus skohthane culture was appropriated for the media market—it became part and parcel of the township narrative, appearing in Nando's ads, online cartoon serials, myriad local music videos.
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A number of longtime Arizona State faculty members, as well as Democrats in the Legislature, also complain that the millions appropriated for the new programs could have been better spent.
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The meeting is expected to cover a range of issues related to defense and Trump's proposal to use funds that Congress appropriated for the Pentagon to construct a border wall.
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Trump declared a national emergency last week in order to take money Congress had appropriated for other activities and use it to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Moreover, according to the State Department, well over 90 percent all of the funds appropriated for exchanges are spent either in the United States or on American citizens who travel overseas.
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Not knowing how much money will be appropriated for the year, or when it will be available, has made it difficult for agencies to plan and rationally allocate resources and personnel.
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Congress approved $4.7 billion to deal with the opioid crisis in an omnibus budget bill approved in March, and an additional $3.7 billion may be appropriated for fiscal 2019 (The Hill).
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"The court should bar Trump and the U.S. Department of Defense from using the declaration and funds appropriated for other purposes to build a border wall, the complaint requests," it added.
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With Mariana Alfaro President Trump declared a national emergency last February to divert billions that had been appropriated for the military to fund construction of his wall along the southern border.
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And it's illegal for another reason too, says GAO: It violates the Antideficiency Act, which states that agencies aren't allowed to rack up bills beyond what Congress has appropriated for them.
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And has declared a national emergency -- and thereby diverted funds appropriated for other purposes -- in order to build a wall that even immigration hard-liners do not believe is the solution.
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"Far from enjoining a unique or sole source of funding … this injunction merely stops the unlawful augment of the funds that were already appropriated for border wall funding," the judge wrote.
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As part of an effort to pull together roughly $2628 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border wall, the administration will redirect $28503 billion originally appropriated for military construction projects across the country.
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For example, the $252 million originally appropriated for the 2014-85033 Ebola outbreak in West Africa would come from USAID's International Disaster Assistance Account, managed by the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance.
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As part of an effort to pull together roughly $6900 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border wall, the administration will redirect $2628 billion originally appropriated for military construction projects across the country.
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Opponents would use the same motion of disapproval that they tried to use to block the president from grabbing federal money for a border wall that was not appropriated for that purpose.
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Facebook continues to face fallout over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed how user data was stealthily obtained by way of quizzes and then appropriated for other purposes, such as targeted political advertising.
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Schumer told reporters at the Capitol that the Trump administration has yet to spend "a penny" of the $1.3 billion Congress appropriated for border security for fiscal 2018, which ended on Sept. 30.
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He told reporters at the Capitol that the Trump administration has yet to spend "a penny" of the $1.3 billion Congress appropriated for border security for fiscal 85033, which ended on Sept. 30.
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Without greater line-item fidelity, it is impossible to tell by how much, but appropriators will ignore any funding request already appropriated for, bringing the total supplemental to an amount below $2900 billion.
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But whatever part of the region Turkey eventually seeks control over, it will face an ethnically mixed, substantially Kurdish population that does not want to have its territory appropriated for Ankara's resettlement plans.
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His quest to start building a fence along America's southern border using money Congress appropriated for other projects got a shot in the arm from five justices—with the four liberal justices in dissent.
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An unnamed U.S. official told the news service that $4.9 billion was appropriated for the security forces for fiscal 2023, and that money was taken from the account as savings in contracts were found.
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Advocates have said any nationwide campaign to stem the opioid epidemic would need to come with substantial funding, as hundreds of millions of dollars have been appropriated for public health campaigns in the past.
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Reminder: As part of an effort to pull together roughly $2628 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border wall, the administration plans to redirect $28503 billion originally appropriated for military construction projects across the country.
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Officials at ICE had objected to the proposal, saying that there would be liability problems if a migrant was injured during transport and that the agency's budget had not been appropriated for that purpose.
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The funds that Congress appropriated for our military families not only kept our promise to our troops and military families, it arguably made us safer, because it helped put our troops' minds at ease.
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Martha McSally of Arizona seemed to then contradict Trump's acting defense secretary, recalling a conversation where they discussed four projects in her home state that have already been appropriated for the 2019 fiscal year.
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Combined with the $380 million that Congress previously appropriated for election security in 2019, lawmakers have allocated over $85033 million so far to strengthen our election infrastructure during the two years before the 2020 election.
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If praising the images is considered an approval of the process, just moving through the world today provides consent for our likeness to appear in art production and be appropriated for public consumption and purchase.
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In a 229-193 vote, the Democratic-majority House voted to move to a final debate on overturning Trump's assertion that he could use money for the wall that Congress had appropriated for other purposes.
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Because Trump is now trying to reauthorize funds that were originally appropriated for other purposes, legal experts say Democrats can, once again, use this same argument and emphasize that he's circumventing Congress by doing so.
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A Clinton administration official identified the land in a 1997 memo after Congress called for a report on land that could be sold because it has not been reserved or appropriated for a specific use.
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In addition to the $200 million appropriated for response efforts in Flint by the state legislature, the state expanded Medicaid benefits for Flint residents and added early education programs for children under three years old.
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Yet that effort has been slow to roll out, including a Department of Labor outlay of only a portion of the nearly $300 million that Congress has appropriated for apprenticeship over the past two years.
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Schumer and Pelosi instead proposed passing a stopgap spending measure for the homeland security appropriations bill that would keep border fencing funding at $1.3 billion, the same amount that Congress appropriated for fiscal year 85033.
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But under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a genuine national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border.
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But it was not clear whether the White House was saying the executive branch would refuse to hand the universities the money that Congress had appropriated for them, or was merely gesturing to that view.
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"I think the law is very clear and I think the President has been advised of it that if he signs an executive order declaring a national emergency and directing the military to spend money that has not been expressly appropriated for the wall or that has not been expressly appropriated for eminent domain– since much of the real estate where they want to build the wall is privately owned– I think it's pretty clear that court will stop him from doing that," Napolitano said.
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According to the Washington Post, the ECA was "originally slated for extinction" entirely; instead the final White House budget cuts the bureau's funding to $285 million, less than half of the $590 million appropriated for 2016.
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"But under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the President to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border," they wrote.
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Their conflict with neuroscientists offers a fascinating case study of what happens when experimental tools normally kept behind the closed doors of academia — in this case, transcranial direct current stimulation — are appropriated for use outside them.
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The standoff ended when Trump circumvented Congress and declared a national emergency, which he said allowed him to divert money appropriated for other programs to construct the wall, a major plank of his 2016 election campaign.
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President Obama asked Congress in February for more than $1.8 billion to fight Zika, but Republican lawmakers refused to act and said the government should use money that had been appropriated for other diseases, like Ebola.
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"Under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border," the statement reads.
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The Trump administration is ending a months-long hold of more than $8 billion in disaster aid relief Congress appropriated for Puerto Rico, a senior Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) official confirmed early Wednesday.
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But if members of Congress start worrying that money appropriated for one purpose will be clawed back by the White House and handed over for a different one, look for spending battles to get bloodier still.
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"Under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border," the officials wrote.
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Trump has said there is a "good chance" he will have to declare a national emergency, which would allow him to circumvent Congress and repurpose funds appropriated for other purposes in order to build the wall.
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Over the course of the recent election cycle, the so-called "alt-right" was heavily engaged in what might be deemed meme warfare, in which previous innocuous phrases and images were appropriated for the group's political ends.
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Following the declaration, the administration has access to $8.1 billion to build a southwestern border wall, including up to $3.6 billion in DOD funds appropriated for military construction, according to a fact sheet prepared by the administration.
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And while Congress did previously pass a small preliminary disaster package in September, the $85033 billion appropriated for housing funding and other long-term assistance is still sitting at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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"Under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border," they told the Post.
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"Since no funds have been appropriated for that purpose, we conclude that an expenditure of funds by the Department of Defense for the construction of a border wall would very likely violate the Antideficiency Act," they wrote.
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Of the roughly $20 million Congress had appropriated for Trump's inauguration, about $14 million was spent on D.C. policy deployments, $3.6 million was allocated for fire and emergency medical services and $2.2 million went toward transportation services.
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A U.S. District Court judge in California ruled last Friday that the Trump administration's proposal to build the border wall with money appropriated for the Defense Department to use in the fight against illegal drugs was unlawful.
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Along with the $1.25 billion emergency funding request, the White House requested that an additional $535 million in emergency funding previously appropriated for the prevention and treatment of Ebola be redirected toward the effort to counter coronavirus.
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Options for House Democrats House Democrats aren't expected to challenge any funds appropriated for the wall, but would likely do so in a scenario in which Trump uses executive authority, depending on what legal basis he uses.
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"Since no funds have been appropriated for that purpose, we conclude that an expenditure of funds by the Department of Defense for the construction of a border wall would very likely violate the Antideficiency Act," they wrote.
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Not long after the news broke, he retweeted from his "Stone Cold Truth" account a GIF of Trump, seated in his boardroom during a scene from "The Apprentice," with the familiar words appropriated for the occasion: "You're fired!"
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Pelosi and Schumer said in a statement late Monday that the president should accept a yearlong stopgap funding measure that would provide $1.3 billion for border fencing and barriers, the same amount that Congress appropriated for fiscal 85033.
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That suggests that Spike's designer either made the logo as a tribute to the abandoned program, or that it was originally designed for Constellation and was simply re-appropriated for the NRO launch after that program was canceled.
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In recent decades, the appeal to freedom has been appropriated for agendas on the political right, where the idea of freedom serves to defend "the free market" and is largely reduced to a formal conception of individual liberty.
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To achieve the larger force, the Navy would need $26.6 billion annually for ship construction, which is 60 percent more than the average amount that Congress has appropriated for shipbuilding in the past 30 years, the CBO study said.
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Specifically, she asked whether the president has ever demanded that disaster relief funds to Puerto Rico should be cut off, and about what the administration plans to do with disaster relief funds already authorized and appropriated for Puerto Rico.
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Jaresko said it was safe to say approximately $35 billion to $45 billion has been appropriated for relief and rebuilding, including earmarks from the U.S. Congress and money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is not fixed.
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Abbott said the recovery from Harvey would require even more money than the package Congress appropriated for Hurricane Katrina relief, saying the total population and geographic range affected by Harvey could surpass both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy combined.
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Yet before it was even released, the film was consumed by controversy over the title and by concerns over whether the city's miseries should even be appropriated for cinematic purposes — let alone for ones with a self-critical bent.
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For the President to use it to re-purpose billions of dollars, that Congress has appropriated for other purposes that has previously signed into law, strikes me as undermining the appropriations process, the will of Congress, and being of dubious constitutionality.
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But his declaration to take an additional $3.6 billion that Congress has appropriated for military hospitals, barracks and schools is inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution that I swore an oath to support and defend ... This declaration is a dangerous precedent.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, given large price differentials between commercial vs personal drones, and the relative surfeit in production of the latter gizmos vs the former, Gartner notes increasing overlap between the two markets — with lower priced drones being appropriated for commercial ventures.
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"I can't imagine anything more dangerous than a president who says he can take funds appropriated for other purposes and shift them to build the wall along the southern border, claiming it is necessary to satisfy a campaign pledge," Fisher said.
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White House advisers urged Trump not to immediately pan the Democrats' offer to pass a yearlong stopgap Homeland Security funding measure that includes $1.3 billion for border fencing, the same amount Congress appropriated for fiscal 2018, according to the source.
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This, they write, is a cynical and dangerous ploy: Whatever part of the region Turkey eventually seeks control over, it will face an ethnically mixed, substantially Kurdish population that does not want to have its territory appropriated for Ankara's resettlement plans.
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For the President to use it to re-purpose billions of dollars, that Congress has appropriated for other purposes that has previously signed into law, strikes me as undermining the appropriations process, the will of Congress and being of dubious constitutionality.
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Democrats argued that Trump had launched an unconstitutional power grab because Congress refused to grant his request for billions of dollars in wall funding, and he decided to fund it anyway with money appropriated for other purposes including military construction projects.
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The GAO asserted that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) violated the law when it withheld millions in funding from the Department of Defense that Congress appropriated for security aid authorized by the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI).
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Representative David Cicilline said the Trump administration had exacerbated a challenging border situation by not spending money that was appropriated for border facilities and personnel, as well as by cutting off aid to Central American countries for sending migrants to the United States.
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Mr. Lew said the Treasury had been working with the National Economic Council at the White House to find forms of assistance that would not require an act of Congress — making sure funds appropriated for existing federal programs were transferred quickly, for example.
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This is the film that, through a series of curious events, led to the complaint filed earlier this month (that can be read in its entirety) in which Fulks claims elements of his work were appropriated for Lemonade—the trailer in particular.
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No.1 is the latest of many properties in the area, which were appropriated for use as offices during World War II as the Blitz ravaged the city, that are now being returned to their original purpose, as homes for the unimaginably rich.
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Along with Joan Semmel and Betty Tompkins, she appropriated for painting the provocative use of the female body that is usually limited to performance artists, including Carolee Schneemann and Valie Export in the late 1960s, and Vanessa Beecroft in more recent times.
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Trump has previously taken aim at Puerto Rican officials for their management of the billions in relief funds his administration has appropriated for storm recovery, accusing the island's leaders of spending some of that money for reasons other than hurricane clean-up.
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In many cases, pieces and motifs were appropriated for men and women, like the motorcycle-style leather jackets and pants or the gaping, open-plan knitwear of Daniel Lee's first show for Bottega Veneta, or the ripcord-cinching jackets of Mr. Andrew's Ferragamo.
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"I voted against the president's executive order not because I was opposed to improving our border security but I don't think it's appropriate or constitutional for the president to take money that's been appropriated for one purpose and use it for another," Sen.
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She asked Carson and Mulvaney in her letter whether the president has ever demanded that disaster relief funds to Puerto Rico should be cut off, and about what the administration plans to do with disaster relief funds already authorized and appropriated for Puerto Rico.
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The new bill includes a $45 billion program to combat opioid abuse as well as $70 billion to offset the costs of expensive patients (this is in addition to the $13 billion already appropriated for that purpose in the first version of the bill).
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"The president's emergency declaration to take an additional $28500 billion that Congress has appropriated for military hospitals, for basics and for schools … is inconsistent with the United States Constitution that I took an oath to support and defend," Alexander said from the Senate floor.
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On the day that he signed the bill, he declared a national emergency on the southern border and, using powers meant for urgent circumstances in which Congress lacks the time to respond, rerouted an extra $6.7 billion appropriated for other programs to fund his wall.
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U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam ruled on May 30 in Oakland, California that the administration's proposal to build parts of the border wall in California, New Mexico and Arizona with money appropriated for the Defense Department to use in the fight against illegal drugs was unlawful.
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For their ambitious new exhibition O Palácio vai nú (The Palace Goes Naked) at the Marquis of Pombal Palace, in Oeiras, the group has filled all of the (usually) empty palace rooms with found and readymade objects that have been appropriated for the retelling of the palace's history.
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Democrats want President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE to freeze border fencing funding at $1.3 billion, the amount Congress appropriated for 2018.
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Jon TesterJonathan (Jon) TesterNative American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment House Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 2020 Budget deal sparks scramble to prevent shutdown MORE (Mont.), the top Democrat on the subpanel, that allocated $1.6 billion for border fencing, an increase over what Congress appropriated for fiscal 2018.
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The re-purposing of funds has also been challenged in the courts, however the Supreme Court recently decided lat month that the border wall contracts can proceed while a court battle plays out over whether the government had the authority to divert funds that were not appropriated for the wall.
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"Contrary to the will of Congress, the president has used the pretext of a manufactured 'crisis' of unlawful immigration to declare a national emergency and redirect federal dollars appropriated for drug interdiction, military construction and law enforcement initiatives toward building a wall on the United States-Mexico border," the lawsuit says.
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Military funds diverted for border wall Expect to hear from Republican lawmakers this week if they support Trump's decision announced last week to use funds Congress appropriated for military construction projects in their states and overseas to build the border wall with Mexico after Congress refused to approve money for the controversial barrier.
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In July, however, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to use $2.5 billion in counter-drug funding from the Department of Defense to construct parts of the wall while a court battle plays out over whether the government had the authority to divert funds that were not appropriated for the wall.
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But Congress could readily specify certain conditions that must exist before the president can make such a declaration and thus arrogate to himself extraordinary powers — curtailing liberties, seizing property, spending funds appropriated for other purposes and suspending protective laws — that Congress would not otherwise be likely to grant him in advance, or perhaps ever.
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They told the committee that Mr. Trump and his allies inside and outside the government placed the president's political objectives at the center of American policy toward Ukraine, using as leverage both the security assistance that Congress had appropriated for Ukraine's war with Russia as well as a White House meeting that was coveted by the country's new leader.
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In February, after a standoff with House Democrats over funding for his border wall caused a record-breaking government shutdown, Mr. Trump declared that illegal migration and drug smuggling along the southern border had created a "national emergency" there, enabling him to redirect billions of dollars in Pentagon funds, which Congress had appropriated for other purposes, to border barriers.
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David Leonhardt focuses on the President's shockingly awful behavior, dishonesty, and corruption, but makes no mention of his mistreatment of Puerto Rico, his decision to reject the Paris climate accord, or his invocation of phony national security crises to slap tariffs on China and take money appropriated for the Pentagon to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The Senate is expected to vote this week on a joint resolution, which already passed the House of Representatives, to terminate the "national emergency" that the President declared — after months of posturing and bluster — so he could divert funds that Congress has appropriated for other uses to build a portion of his wall along the U.S. southern border.
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Y.) on Monday afternoon said that he and House Democratic Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (Calif.) have yet to hear a response from Trump on their offer to freeze funding for border fencing at $1.3 billion, the amount Congress appropriated for fiscal 2018.
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Given the absence of any criteria defining a national emergency in the National Emergencies Act of 2628, and a majority of justices on the Supreme Court who are receptive to an expansive view of presidential power, however, a declaration of a national emergency and the deployment of funds (appropriated for other purposes) to pay for a wall may pass judicial muster.
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As a result, Kinzinger said he won't vote to block President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's national emergency declaration to secure funds that have not been congressionally appropriated for his long-desired wall along the southern border.
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper has been given the green light to spend funds "to be appropriated for fiscal year 2020 for the Department of Defense to conduct activities associated with storage, preservation, and developing a plan for the final disposition of such F-35 aircraft and Turkish F-35 aircraft equipment, including full mission simulators, helmet-mounted display systems, air system maintenance trainers, and ancillary mission equipment," the bill states.
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" When asked by moderator Chuck Todd whether the White House would be satisfied if money isn't specifically appropriated for the wall itself, Priebus added: "I think that as long as the President's priorities are adequately reflected in the CR (continuing resolution), and it allows us to get moving with an increase in military spending and a rebuilding of our military as he promised in one of your bullet points, and there's enough as far as flexibility for the border wall and border security, I think we'll be okay with that.
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Another perspective, which offers another model of history, is the cyclical one: familiar from the harvest calendar, the Stoic Greek theory of ekpyrosis and the Chinese "dynastic cycle", and appropriated for the modern era by thinkers as seemingly teleological as Friedrich Nietzsche, who made the cycles of time a moral parable with his "eternal recurrence"; Albert Einstein, who considered the possibility of a "cyclic" model of the universe; Arthur Schlesinger, who saw American history as alternating periods of "public purpose" and "private interest"; and Paul Michael Kennedy, in his circumspect history lesson for the end of the Cold War, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
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