Posted on 07/27/2025 3:17:24 AM PDT by RandFan
“Pocket rescissions, I think, are unconstitutional,” said Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a spending cardinal, this week.
“So, just like impoundment, I think, is unconstitutional.”
“So we’ll see how it goes,” he said.
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought referred to pocket rescissions as “one of the executive tools” that are “on the table” earlier this month, as the administration continues a sweeping operation aimed at reducing federal spending.
“The president was elected to get us to balance, to deal with our fiscal situation, and we’re going to use all of the tools that are there depending on the situation, and as we move through the year,” he said at an event.
However, he also noted then that the administration hasn’t yet “made a determination to use it in part because we’re making progress during the normal course of business with Congress.”
Trump became the first president in decades to successfully claw back funds through the special rescissions process, with the GOP-led Congress agreeing to pull back about $9 billion in previously allocated funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting.
The Impoundment Control Act (ICA) lays out rules governing that process and allows the administration to temporarily withhold funding for 45 days while Congress considers the request. If Congress opts not to approve the request in the timeframe, the funds must be released.
Under a pocket rescission, however, experts say the president would send the same type of request to Congress, but do so within 45 days of the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. The targeted funds could then essentially be held until the clock runs out and they expire.
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If “they” means Congress, the answer is no.
Too many hogs feeding at the trough with too much of the money directly or indirectly benefitting the members of Congress (both parties).
You really didn’t think they’d put any real effort towards cutting the spending, did you?
@CongMikeSimpson
Hate to tell you this, but 90% of all taxes are unconstitutional....how about getting back to the bare bones and cutting the budget by that much?
ANY recissions are the right way to go - but Y’all got so used to spending other people’s money you’ve become addicted to it.
How many took an "out" voluntarily?
How many rescission packages will there be?
No they will not.
All the power they have is derived from spending other peoples money. They ain't giving that up for nothing nor no one.
The he interest on the debt, social security, Medicare, most welfare type expenditures are the primary contributors to the debt.
They are politically untouchable.
The President’s trip to the Fed was to reduce interest rates and thus the debt incurred presently. That visit was apparently rebuffed.
Impoundment is not Unconstitutional, the Impoundment control act is Unconstitutional.
Rand thinks the Impoundment control act is Constitutional and makes Impoundment illegal.
If the ICA was passed to curtail a constitutional authority of the executive, it must be unconstitutional on its face. Current legislation cannot be enacted which impedes legitimate constitutional authority of a successor administration. The constitution cannot be abridged by legislation.
How true. Both parties love to borrow and spend.
Note to Rep Simpson: A budget would be real nice. Then there would be little need for recissions and impoundment.
Not unconstitutional if put in the constitution. Keep the judges out of it.
Both are constitutional, and may be critical to saving the republic from spending into oblivion.
The first response from the deep state regarding anything that they are opposed to - it’s unconstitutional.
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