Practice question
A fiscal year ends before Congress passes the ensuing general appropriations bill. The President claims the delay automatically removes all legal spending limits. Which constitutional response is correct?
- Delay permits expenditure of any amount for any purpose.
- The preceding general appropriations law is deemed reenacted, so a legal appropriation framework continues.
- The President acquires Congress’s entire lawmaking power.
- No appropriation law can ever operate after December 31.
- The Constitution requires every court to close.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article VI, Section 25(7).
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