On Friday night’s 11th Hour, MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown argued that the government finding and reallocating money to fund certain personnel to be illegal, but failed to provide concrete evidence or reasoning. The segment was based on Brown’s equally weak opinion piece published earlier that day.
Brown’s beef was with authorities finding the means to keep certain federal staff and functions funded. But Brown couldn’t make the argument without immediately contradicting himself:
… in many of these cases, that's not technically allowed. For example, military officials getting their paychecks this week, that was done by raiding the research and development funds at the Pentagon, which there are ways you can do that. Pete Hegseth does have powers to do that under the law, but it's capped at a certain amount, and there are certain guidelines to what you have to do to make that happen.
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