Presidential Spending Power

by Louis Fisher

Book Overview

Each year billions of dollars are diverted by the President and his assistants from the purposes for which Congress intended them. Billions more are used in confidential and covert ways, without the knowledge of Congress and the public. Here is the first account of how this money is actually spent. Louis Fisher writes: "When it comes to the administration of the budget, we find nothing that is obvious, very little that is visible. Our priorities here...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691021732
• ISBN13: 9780691021737
• Release Date: November 1975
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 362 Pages