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In roughly this sense, the President detains funds in the treasury rather than spending them as appropriated. The first use of the power by President Thomas Jefferson involved refusal to spend $50,000 ($1.24 million in 2023) in funds appropriated for the acquisition of gunboats for the United States Navy. He said in 1803 that "[t]he sum of ...
How Donald Trump could try to use presidential impoundment to cut federal spending.
On his first day in office as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders which rescinded many of the previous administration's executive actions, withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization and Paris Agreement, [1] rolled back federal recognition of gender identity, [2] founded the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Every day seems to bring more blatantly unconstitutional acts by President Trump. On Monday, the most egregious was his announcement that he is freezing the spending on all federal grants and ...
"Through declarations and conduct prior to and following the security breach at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, President Trump (1) undermined the integrity of his high office; (2) sowed discord among the people of the United States; and (3) violated his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President and, to the best of ...
The president and CEO of the American First Policy Institute, a think tank for the former president manned by previous staffers, Brooke Rollins was part of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers ...