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Trump Plans To Use Impoundment To Cut Spending - What Is It?
Epoch Times ^ | 11/23/2024 | Lawrence Wilson

Posted on 11/23/2024 5:05:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/23/2024 5:05:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Congress can only “authorize” spending. It cannot demand that the money be spent.


2 posted on 11/23/2024 5:09:44 PM PST by libh8er
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To: SeekAndFind

Bkmk


3 posted on 11/23/2024 5:14:33 PM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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I can’t be overdrawn! I still have checks left! — Congress


4 posted on 11/23/2024 5:16:29 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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"FBI budget? I told 'em I impounded it!"

5 posted on 11/23/2024 5:16:56 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds fun.

For example, Trump could hold up the money for those silly LCS things?

That’s a question.


6 posted on 11/23/2024 5:20:30 PM PST by OKSooner
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To: SeekAndFind

And you can bet that, thanks to Republican knuckleheads not showing up for Senate votes this past week, there WILL be some Schumer judge that will overturn Trump’s impoundments.


7 posted on 11/23/2024 5:21:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: SeekAndFind

hopefully, with the DOGE bit, they could also cull the workload. Since congress defines the roles of these agencies relatively minimally, with the agency itself filling the blanks, it should be easy to do.

E.g. - Congress passes a Department of Housing that must build houses for Americans.

The Department writes a reg that says, each house is to have 6 bedrooms and gold toilets. It hires employees to build the rooms and mine the gold.

Trump comes in and says, no, I’m culling the reg to say the houses have two bedrooms and use porcelain toilets. Bye-Bye 90% of the employees and required budget.

The houses continue to be built and since congress didn’t actually specify the house, the prez has faithfully executed the law.


8 posted on 11/23/2024 5:21:57 PM PST by fruser1
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To: SeekAndFind

It didn’t work for Nixon. Good luck with that.


9 posted on 11/23/2024 5:22:46 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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In 1996 Congress passed the “Line Item Veto Act”.

Bill Clinton (!!!) actually used it to rein in some spending. In a subsequent lawsuit the Supreme Court found the law unconstitutional.

We have different times and a different court. Time to test it again.


10 posted on 11/23/2024 5:22:47 PM PST by Locomotive Breath
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Stare Decicis?


11 posted on 11/23/2024 5:24:04 PM PST by OKSooner
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LCS

As long as there's no law requiring that particular vessel, yes it could be scrapped. I doubt congress ever has specified anything beyond saying "give us a navy" as far as actual boats go.

For myself, I don't see much use for VTOL. We already have helicopters and while it may have been a nice exercise in developing technology, as far as I know, they are superfluous.

12 posted on 11/23/2024 5:27:58 PM PST by fruser1
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Well both Chevron and Roe were overturned so that goes only so far.

Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin’
Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times, they are a-changin’


13 posted on 11/23/2024 5:28:31 PM PST by Locomotive Breath
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank you, Trump.

MORE! MORE! MORE!


14 posted on 11/23/2024 5:30:06 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (🎶 They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. 🎶)
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“I will use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings,” Trump said when announcing his plan in June 2023.....

No wonder Congress has been melting down


15 posted on 11/23/2024 5:32:42 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Trump doesn’t care about the money some would say, I agree. But if you take away the money you away the power...from the bureaucracy.

Think of the benefits, first you slap our pathetic congress across the face, no money to pay worthless fed employees, lower taxes, the list is endless.

What a beautiful thing, cutting the legs off congress and the feds at the same tie.


16 posted on 11/23/2024 5:33:50 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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I think Trump's Second term will shock people much more than the first, since people will now learn they have had no say whatsoever in what the Federal Government operates, does, or who can be fired.

A critical mass of Americans will finally understand that the Federal Government cannot be fixed at the ballot box.

17 posted on 11/23/2024 5:46:46 PM PST by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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The constitution also says that one of the primary jobs of the House of Representatives is to pass a budget. It does not say it should have an omnibus bill that just keeps the allotment the same as the year before at a higher percent.


18 posted on 11/23/2024 5:54:10 PM PST by Freee-dame ( )
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This will be a seminal court ruling - one for the ages


19 posted on 11/23/2024 6:00:06 PM PST by 11th_VA (Democracy was on the ballot - and we won !!!)
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A critical mass of Americans will finally understand that the Federal Government cannot be fixed at the ballot box.

Too many FReepers appear to think the solution is to just elect any republican.

In washington DC, the democrat and republican party are just two cheeks on the same a$$.

20 posted on 11/23/2024 6:01:47 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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