purse strings

We all want it, but those who control the purse strings refuse to pay for it.

The House Speaker carries no portfolio for enforcing or bypassing military regulations; but the House does control the Pentagon’s purse strings.

Looming large over Reeves' decisions is a desire not to create an overbearing strategy that leverages its power over the purse strings to dictate policy, as occurred on occasion in Gordon Brown’s Treasury.

Not fiscal recklessness, not mad gambles, but a loosening of the purse strings to reflect a club wishing to win more games in Europe as well as winning the domestic prizes.

He previously told the Herald that he’s running to “clinch up the purse strings” of Congress and unseat Newhouse, who he says doesn’t represent the conservative values of Central Washington voters.