During Trump's 1st term, his budgets proposed devastating cuts, e.g. eliminating all fed funding for:
—Long-distance Amtrak
—New transit projects
—CDBG
—HOME
He couldn't kill those programs because Congress appropriated funds. If Supreme Court allows impoundment, Trump could unilaterally kill them.
—Long-distance Amtrak
—New transit projects
—CDBG
—HOME
He couldn't kill those programs because Congress appropriated funds. If Supreme Court allows impoundment, Trump could unilaterally kill them.
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Matt Glassman
For all the talk about this & that & whatever with Trump, this is the real game/set/match for executive power: Musk/Varaswamy suggest a SCOTUS ruling that the Impoundment Act is unconstitutional and that POTUS can refuse to spend appropriations. 1/
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Reversing it means every admin decision can now be challenged in court. That would seem to hinder the admin's ability to reinterpret laws willy-nilly?