On Monday, former Secretaries of the Treasury, Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew and Janet Yellen contributed to an opinion piece in the New York Times that they thought was a massive flex on Literally Orange Hitler, but as it turns out, it was illustrative of the problem.

To begin with, they stated: - Michael Smith

“During our collective 18 years at the helm of the Treasury, we never were asked to stop congressionally appropriated funds from being paid out in full.”

Well, there might be the start of the issue.
I wanted to know how funds got from A all the way to Z, so I did a little research, and this seems to be the general process...

...It seems clear to me that nobody in this chain of events is doing their jobs, least of all the Inspectors General. 

What is also clear is that if they really wanted to stop money going to the staging of transgender plays in Ireland or sex changes in Guatemala, it could be done...

• The idea that if Congress appropriates money, it must be spent regardless of the reason is simply irreconcilable with the actual duty of care and management of taxpayer funds.