Congress cannot pass a law allowing blanket transfers of appropriations by the President as this is prohibited by the Constitution. The Constitution does not permit the realignment of funds that have already been appropriated through law without enacting a new specific law, even during a state of national emergency. Section 4 (16) of the proposed Bayanihan Act would authorize unconstitutional blanket transfers of appropriations by the President.
Congress cannot pass a law allowing blanket transfers of appropriations by the President as this is prohibited by the Constitution. The Constitution does not permit the realignment of funds that have already been appropriated through law without enacting a new specific law, even during a state of national emergency. Section 4 (16) of the proposed Bayanihan Act would authorize unconstitutional blanket transfers of appropriations by the President.
Congress cannot pass a law allowing blanket transfers of appropriations by the President as this is prohibited by the Constitution. The Constitution does not permit the realignment of funds that have already been appropriated through law without enacting a new specific law, even during a state of national emergency. Section 4 (16) of the proposed Bayanihan Act would authorize unconstitutional blanket transfers of appropriations by the President.
authorizing the transfer of appropriations. As such, Congress cannot enact Sec. 4 (16) of the proposed Bayanihan Act because it authorizes blanket transfer of appropriations by the President outside of that allowed under the Constitution and by the Supreme Court in Araullo.
What the Constitution prohibits is
the re-alignment of funds already provided for in an appropriation law. In order to modify the old appropriations law to add new appropriations, or to re-align appropriations, there always has to be a law, a specific law, not a blanket authority, regardless of the existence or non-existence of a state of national emergency.