#Trump & #RussellVought lead on #Project2025 alum, plan to #impound federal #spending in direct violation of 1974 #Impoundment Control Act. This would prompt legal fight very likely decided by #SCOTUS & threaten separation of powers outlined in #Constitution.Trump Drafts Plans to Take Over #Congress Spending Powers. Donald Trump plans to make massive cuts to spending after Congress decides on the #budget..taking a wrecking ball to our democracy, nothing is stopping him https://newrepublic.com/post/192733/trump-plans-spending-cuts-congress-shutdown

Threat for Today #CR #Budget Vote - "#Trump and #WhiteHouse officials have been telling #GOP #Congress holdouts who want more spending cuts that the administration will pursue #impoundment — that is, holding back federal funding already appropriated by Congress — according to two #Republicans who were in a recent meeting with the #president and spoke to Meredith Lee Hill. #MAGA #GOP #Republicans #legislative relinquish all #power #authority #responsibility #ruleoflaw https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2025/03/11/johnsons-spending-holdouts-00223195

Mr. #Tillis_ I’m heartened by the news of the #SupremeCourt that #POTUSINO must unfreeze congressional allocations for foreign aid. I hope you are. It was a partial acceptance of the #impoundment, however, if I understand things correctly. 1/10

Trump 2.0 and US politics - #impoundment ... fiscal policy: OUT – fiscal autocracy: IN, chart @financialtimes.com Lillian Tett
https://www.ft.com/content/880d5a82-f145-4525-ba66-3b5e10471a73

The Trump regime is doubling down on its illegal firings of federal workers.

How do we know the firings are illegal?

Under the Constitution, only Congress has the power to fund the federal government, and once it authorizes money for a particular purpose, the president has has to spend that money.

1/n

#Trump #impoundment #FederalWorkers #IllegalFirings #fascism #intimidation

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-tells-federal-agencies-make-plans-large-scale-lay-rcna193850

"I finally got what's bugged me about all these stories on the crippling of the US govt: all of them speak of "cuts" when, in fact, only Congress can 'cut' funding, and it has done nothing of the sort. The story describes illegal & unconstitutional impoundment, BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT"

Preach! #impoundment is a crime. It should be met with #impeachment

#Via: https://bsky.app/profile/kjephd.bsky.social/post/3livf7iif622l

The Dangers of Presidential #Impoundment - Foreign Policy

#Nixon tried what #Trump is planning—and it caused a #constitutional crisis.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/16/presidential-impoundment-trump-nixon-history/

Never heard of the #Impoundment Control Act, but here we are https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-funding-freeze-evokes-watergate?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #trump

"Key architects of Project 2025 propose another dangerous tool to weaken the constitutional authorities of Congress and seize control over the federal budget: presidential impoundment. This power refers to the executive branch’s refusal to spend appropriated monies per Congress’ directives. Congress erected the important statutory guardrails that ban presidential impoundment . . . "
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-would-destroy-the-u-s-system-of-checks-and-balances-and-create-an-imperial-presidency/ #Impoundment #Project2025 #USPol

#Politics #Impoundment #Fascism #joycevance
The outcome of that hearing will turn on whether the plaintiff groups challenging the Trump administration’s plans can show that they will be irremediably harmed by the measure.That leaves us with the question, can a president unilaterally substitute their own funding decisions for those of Congress? The answer is, they can’t The only way Trump can proceed with impoundment is if the Act is unconstitutional and Train is reversed
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/impoundment?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios

#DonaldTrump is entering his second term with vows to cut a vast array of #government services and a radical plan to do so. Rather than relying on his party’s control of #Congress to trim the budget, #Trump and his advisers intend to test an obscure legal theory holding that presidents have sweeping power to withhold funding from programs they dislike.

#News #Law #Politics #USPolitics #Impoundment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loC-UTFPizQ

Trump and his advisers intend to test an obscure legal theory holding that presidents have sweeping power to withhold funding from programs they dislike.

“We can simply choke off the money,”
Trump said in a 2023 campaign video.
“For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending.”

His plan, known as “#impoundment,” threatens to provoke a major clash over the limits of the president’s control over the budget.

The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to appropriate the federal budget, while the role of the executive branch is to dole out the money effectively.

But Trump and his advisers are asserting that a president can unilaterally ignore Congress’ spending decisions and “impound” funds if he opposes them or deems them wasteful.

Trump’s designs on the budget are part of his administration’s larger plan to consolidate as much power in the executive branch as possible.

This month, he pressured the Senate to go into recess so he could appoint his cabinet without any oversight.
(So far, Republicans who control the chamber have not agreed to do so.)

His key advisers have spelled out plans to bring independent agencies, such as the Department of Justice, under political control.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-congress-budget

Donald Trump is entering his second term with vows to cut a vast array of government services and a radical plan to do so.

Rather than relying on his party’s control of Congress to trim the budget,
Trump and his advisers intend to test an obscure legal theory holding that presidents have sweeping power to withhold funding from programs they dislike.
“We can simply choke off the money,” Trump said in a 2023 campaign video.
“For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending.”

His plan, known as “#impoundment,” threatens to provoke a major clash over the limits of the president’s control over the budget.
The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to appropriate the federal budget,
while the role of the executive branch is to dole out the money effectively.

But Trump and his advisers are asserting that a president can unilaterally ignore Congress’ spending decisions and “impound” funds if he opposes them or deems them wasteful.

Trump’s designs on the budget are part of his administration’s larger plan to consolidate as much power in the executive branch as possible.
This month, he pressured the Senate to go into recess so he could appoint his cabinet without any oversight.
(So far, Republicans who control the chamber have not agreed to do so.)
His key advisers have spelled out plans to bring independent agencies, such as the Department of Justice, under political control.

If Trump were to assert a power to kill congressionally approved programs,
it would almost certainly tee up a fight in the federal courts and Congress and, experts say,
could fundamentally alter Congress’ bedrock power.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-congress-budget

How #Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From #Congress
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Rather than relying on his party’s control of Congress to trim the #budget, Trump and his advisers intend to test an obscure legal theory holding that presidents have sweeping power to defund programs they dislike.

#News #Government #USPolitics #Law #President #Politics #Constitution #Impoundment #POTUS

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-congress-budget