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Trump has not made the required notifications to Congress, and so his order this week to halt spending is patently illegal. In his first term, Trump also engaged in illegal impoundment when he ...
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.
In the hours and days after the Trump administration's funding freeze, California leaders saw chaos and confusion. They fear more devastating effects if the courts don't permanently block such action.
Prakash noted that Trump could refuse to spend the agency’s foreign-aid funds, but doing so would likely conflict with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, a Nixon-era federal law that requires ...
Executive Order 13768 titled Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States was signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on January 25, 2017. [1] [2] The order stated that "sanctuary jurisdictions" including sanctuary cities that refused to comply with immigration enforcement measures would not be "eligible to receive Federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement ...
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday directed federal agencies to stop funding public benefits for foreign nationals living illegally in the U.S. The order cites federal law ...
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 ...
How Donald Trump could try to use presidential impoundment to cut federal spending.