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How Donald Trump could try to use presidential impoundment to cut federal spending.
Donald Trump and appointees to his second administration argued the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional, though few legal scholars agree. [11] Trump's assertion of this power resulted in the 2025 United States federal government grant pause, which was put on hold by a preliminary court injunction before it took effect.
Trump’s legal team would argue that the “Constitution gives the President a right to impound funds” and cite how Thomas Jefferson halted funding for gunboats to patrol the Mississippi River ...
Trump's political opponents vowed to challenge the directive and a judge temporarily blocked it from taking effect. Below is a look at the legality of the directive. Explainer-Trump's spending ...
Though planning for transition by a non-incumbent candidate can start at any time before a presidential election and in the days following, the transition formally starts when the General Services Administration (GSA) declares an “apparent winner” of the election, thereby releasing the funds appropriated by Congress for the transition, and ...
On December 17, 2024, Trump sued the Des Moines Register, its parent company Gannet, and J. Ann Selzer and her polling firm Selzer & Company for a violation of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act, accusing them of "brazen election interference". Shortly before the 2024 presidential election, the newspaper had released a poll that showed Democratic ...
Trump has tried this power grab before and was impeached over it. ... Thomas Jefferson claimed the power to “impound” and refuse to spend money appropriated by Congress. Other presidents ...
In late November 2019, the Impoundment Control Act made news during the Trump impeachment investigation, when two budget office staffers resigned over their concerns over apparent improprieties regarding the hold of approved Ukraine military funds. Among the concerns was the questionable transfer of decision-making authority to Michael Duffey ...