2026-08-24 · The Bulwark
🔮 Instead, they seized on statutory language from 1978 that states: “There are authorized to be appropriated each fiscal year to the President such sums as may be necessary for . . . the care, maintenance, repair, alteration, refurnishing, improvement, air-conditioning, heating, and lighting (including electric power and fixtures) of the Executive Residence at the White House,” and those funds “may be expended as the President may determine.” assertive