Legislative budget cuts cannot stop an executive who shifts funds between departments

Evidence

There was, really, very little they could do. Trying to salvage some revenge, they refused, in making the 1927 budget appropriations, to give Moses any money at all for the second bathhouse, for which the foundation had not been laid, and they saw to it that the additional funds they gave him for other Long Island park projects were far less than he wanted even to complete the buildings already begun. But such satisfactions were small ones. They knew that the difference needed to complete the projects to Moses’ specifications could easily be made up by Smith out of the appropriations to other state departments. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 994

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The proposed executive budget concentrated financial power in the Governor — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 464

Broader Connections

• The proposed executive budget concentrated financial power in the Governor #expands (0.78) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 464