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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The Trump administration can simply decide to NOT distribute the money.


4 posted on 03/18/2017 10:11:06 AM PDT by Timmy
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To: Timmy

Heck, just because Congress appropriates money doesn’t mean Trump can’t close them down.


5 posted on 03/18/2017 10:12:24 AM PDT by Timmy
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To: Timmy

The refusal by the Executive Branch to spend appropriated moneys is called impoundment, and it was a tool used very effectively by Richard Nixon, until the hounds of Congress rammed through a restriction on his authority to do so, claiming it was a breach of his Constitutional duties.

I do not know if this same restriction on impoundment still exists today. Nixon did not pursue the lifting of the restrictions because, frankly, in 1973 he had a LOT of other political problems.


27 posted on 03/18/2017 11:00:50 AM PDT by alloysteel (John Galt has chosen to take the job. This time, Atlas did NOT shrug.)
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