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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 ...
How Donald Trump could try to use presidential impoundment to cut federal spending.
While past presidents have tried to impound -- or hold back -- federal funding in specific cases, Trump's directive to indefinitely freeze financial assistance, grants and loans and foreign aid ...
[1] [8] Before Trump, Johnson was the only president to be impeached in his first term. [b] The House Judiciary Committee also voted to adopt three articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon, but he resigned prior to the full House vote. [9] [c] The Senate voted to acquit both Johnson and Clinton in their trials. [10] [d]
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 ...
It is imperative that a federal court quickly find Trump’s huge impoundment of federal funds to be unconstitutional as usurping Congress’ spending power, just as a court last week immediately ...
In 2024, before Trump's election, a judge dismissed the federal charges relating to Trump's handling of classified documents. [21] After his election, the special counsel decided to abandon the federal charges related to the 2020 election, citing the Justice Department policy of not prosecuting sitting presidents. [22]