Executive Order National Emergency gives POTUS power to spend Omnibus funds as he so chooses? POTUS sent this letter to Paul Ryan yesterday. The full meaning is now being sorted out by various folk. Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/text-letter-president-speaker-house-representatives-president-senate-21/ POTUS has just notified Paul Ryan (Congress) that due to his (Trump's) recent declaration of Human Rights Emergency he (POTUS) is invoking the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Checkmate.