Pocket Rescission
The President called $810 million in congressionally approved funding 'waste,' stuffed it into a literal pocket, and slipped it past the fiscal-year deadline.
Source article: Trump claws back $810 million from congressionally approved programs.
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- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- politics, government
- Primary entities
- Donald Trump, Susan Collins, Patty Murray, Russ Vought, White House, Office of Management and Budget, Senate Appropriations Committee, Health and Human Services
- Themes
- Executive-legislative power conflict, Federal budget and appropriations, Impoundment Control Act, Pocket rescission, Congressional authority
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power