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!
i would love to know who came up with this plan
perhaps Mark Meadows
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
“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.
Big mistake. For the life of me, I can’t fathom why he caved on this.
WTF.
Does it still contain the insurrection act text?
It doesn't force Congress to do anything; it invites them to. But the current Congress ends in 6 days.
In the past, Congress has simply ignored other Presidents citing the act.
Joke is on POTUS here.
I would like to know who talked him into this.
POTUS cannot fight Congress now if signed. They just take his signature and blow off the rest.
POTUS simply has no Constitutional mechanism to force Congress to do anything once he signs his me.
Whoever persuaded Trump to do this, is an enemy. But too late now.
I can’t breathe, I am laughing so much.
President Trump can with hold the monies till mid February.
There is prolly more than 1001 ways to frame/compose a message to Congress to request a Rescission of the funds.
That is more than enough time for Nancy and Chuck to cave and submit a new spending bill to open the Government.
The left has 40 days to wake up and understand Nancy, Chuck and AOC short changed them viv a vis the rest of the world.
A lot of people commenting should be spending your time in a remedial reading class. President Trump has not caved on anything. President Trump is fighting for the American people. This man has single handedly fought off every attack that has been launched at him since before he announced his first campaign. If you think he’s giving up now you are very wrong.
I want him in for his second term even more now. I’m anxious to see him unleashed and pissed off.
I’m trying to find the silver lining with him signing this bill..
What’s the use of utilizing Impoundment if Congress can just ignore?
Well, that means any assumption that he just caved in outright is probably false. If he caved in completely, DC would be breaking out the champagne and caviar.
Sad Night in Mudville...
He should have insisted that the Republican leadership of the House and the Senate guarantee the $2,000 first.
Epic
It does no such thing. If Congress doesn’t act within 45
legislative days y doing what Trump wants, he money must be released as in the original bill signed by the President. In other words, if Congress does nothing, the funding in the bill goes through, whether the President likes it or not.
Lame. Congress can just ignore it and in 45 days the money is released. They don’t even have to take up his request.
Looks like we get all the pork and a commitment to think about more stimulus and a fake promise to take up section 230. Yawn
That's a good sign...