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To: RummyChick; spokeshave

Here’s the specifics of the ICA. First part of ‘Recessions’ looks promising; second part does not:

https://budget.house.gov/publications/report/impoundment-control-act-1974-what-it-why-does-it-matter

How does the ICA work?
The ICA lays out procedures the President must follow to reduce, delay, or eliminate funding in an account. The Act divides impoundments into two categories: rescissions and deferrals.

Rescissions
Put simply, if the President wants to spend less money than Congress provided for a particular purpose, he or she must first secure a law providing Congressional approval to rescind the funding in question. The ICA requires that the President send a special message to Congress identifying the amount of the proposed rescission; the reasons for it; and the budgetary, economic, and programmatic effects of the rescission. Upon transmission of such special message, the President may withhold certain funding in the affected accounts for up to 45 legislative session days. If a law approving the rescission is not enacted within the 45 days, any withheld funds must be made available for obligation.

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.


55 posted on 12/27/2020 6:24:48 PM PST by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Kenny Bania
Here is the actual Act itself. Only look at section 683. It will save you the headache. None of it looks good. If the RINOS are in charge they will do nothing and it will remain $600. If the RATS take the Senate they will explode the debt and give out at least an additional $1400. But they will not rescind the Porkulus bill.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title2/chapter17B&edition=prelim

105 posted on 12/27/2020 11:09:13 PM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me.)
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