Obama Is Furious After Congress Blocks His Executive Order On Gun Control Congressman John Culberson, a Republican from Texas, is claiming that Obama cant issue an executive order that interferes with existing law. This means that any executive order on gun control Obama plans to issue will have to remain within the bounds of the Second Amendment. As Chairman of the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee, I have the authority and the duty to ensure that our hard-earned tax dollars are spent to enforce the law as written by Congress, Culberson said. Section 534 of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Act, 2016 requires ATF to submit a spending plan for the fiscal year, and section 505 of the Act establishes the procedures for reprogramming funding. These powerful tools are available to the Appropriations Committee through the power of the purse vested in Congress by Article I, Section 9: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law. Going forward, the ATF must reassure the nation that honest Americans have no reason to be concerned about these new regulations, or I will be compelled to object to portions of the ATF spending plan and to disapprove requests to reprogram spending within the agency, he continued. Every federal agency under the jurisdiction of the CJS Appropriations Subcommittee has a long history of complying with objections made by chairmen, and I am optimistic that Deputy Director Brandon will be able to reassure the nation that ATF will leave law-abiding Americans alone and that they will focus their efforts exclusively on criminals. It is also important for the Department of Justice and the White House to know that I added Section 740 to the Financial Services and General Government Act, 2016 to nullify the effect of the Presidents budget proposal. My language prohibits appropriated dollars from being used to increase, eliminate or reduce funding for a program, project, or activity as proposed in the Presidents budget request for a fiscal year until such proposed change is subsequently enacted in an appropriation Act, or unless such change is made pursuant to the reprogramming or transfer provisions of this or any other appropriations Act. Therefore, any proposal made by President Barack Obama tonight in his State of the Union that costs money has to be approved by the Appropriations Subcommittee chairmen of jurisdiction in a reprogramming request until and unless the Presidents proposal is approved by Congress in the new appropriation Act and signed into law, he said. We completely agree with him. Obama does not have the power to interfere with existing law. If he takes away our Second Amendment Right, he should be put in prison. Do you think an executive order on gun control would be unconstitutional? 