Waste for Whom?
Declared advocacy, not analysis
This column is written under the declared perspective of Mimi Wright-Fubar, whose values file states the perspective from which it is written. Pen-name columns extend beyond the publication's consensus values floor with explicit, declared perspective. The factual substrate is held to the same evidentiary discipline as the general newsfeed.
A signed spending law becomes a locked pantry when executive power calls the people inside it waste.
Source article: Trump claws back $810 million from congressionally approved programs.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Mimi Wright-Fubar
- 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