Posted on 12/27/2020 6:16:41 PM PST by RandFan
@Maximus_4EVR
FYI Budget Update
-President Trump just invoked the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 while signing the COVID bill, allowing him to redline areas that must be addressed.
-This sends it back to Congress forcing them to 1) repeal 230, 2) cut out the wasteful spending, 3) add $2k.
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-This is a virtually unknown law and has taken Congress by surprise.
-It also signals his intent to invoke *other* laws in the coming weeks.
Stay tuned.
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-PER FOX: The Senate will start the process that increases checks to $2k, repeals Section 230, starts an investigation into voter fraud, per President Trump's redlines under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (which Nixon signed).
-RINOs & Ds are furious.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
Sadly Trump is done and over with this...He had them and caved...He won’t ever get another term...
Sounds positive to me!
Stay tuned!
Rand was right.. the $2k will come on top of the pork :/
I hope so... I don’t know what this law is?
Can anyone explain?
“Sadly Trump is done and over with this...He had them and caved...He won’t ever get another term...”
So says the all-knowing, all-seeing dpetty121263. Pardon me I feel a yawn coming on.
i would love to know who came up with this plan
perhaps Mark Meadows
Trump has really stepped in it this time. It's all over for hime now, #477238234.
Soem info on the Impoundment Act:
“What is the Impoundment Control Act?
The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA) reasserted Congress’ power of the purse. Specifically, Title X of the Act – “Impoundment Control” – established procedures to prevent the President and other government officials from unilaterally substituting their own funding decisions for those of the Congress. The Act also created the House and Senate Budget Committees and the Congressional Budget Office.”
https://budget.house.gov/publications/report/impoundment-control-act-1974-what-it-why-does-it-matter
-RINOs & Ds are furious.
“A 2018 Government Accountability Office legal opinion holds that if the President proposes a rescission, he or she must make the affected funds available to be prudently obligated before the funds expire, even if the 45-day clock is still running. This means, for example, that the President cannot strategically time a rescission request for late in the fiscal year and withhold the funding until it expires, thus achieving a rescission without Congressional approval”
It is likely he cant impound anything, because of this rule requiring funds be freed before january 3rd.
anything he can legally impound automatically un-impounds in 45 days unless congress passes a bill supporting recission.
Biden can undo the impoundment when he is sworn in on the 21st.
If their mad then it means Trump did a good thing...LOLOL
This is beyond stupid, all it allows Trump to do is delay funding till the end of the fiscal year, big deal
it is not like he has never done this exact thing before, using the same act.
the title is sensational, the news is not
Oh yes, I’m sure he’s let you down soooo many times, and this is just the last straw.
Go yell at your dog.
Thank you!
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