Picking the right fight: Congressional tensions rise in wake of Minnesota ICE-involved shooting

We will know in short order if a political fight is brewing.

Such is the case in the past few days regarding congressional spending and war powers.

Article I, Section 9 declares, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law."

The most important power granted to Congress is over the federal purse strings. In other words, what Congress deems the federal government should spend. 

There were calls from the left to hold up funding...