How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress
How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress
The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to punish perceived foes.
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His plan, known as “impoundment,” threatens to provoke a major clash over the limits of the president’s control over the budget. The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to appropriate the federal budget, while the role of the executive branch is to dole out the money effectively. But Trump and his advisers are asserting that a president can unilaterally ignore Congress’ spending decisions and “impound” funds if he opposes them or deems them wasteful.
And what a surprise, his plan is blatantly unconstitutional.
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I don't know if Republicans will accept this. As much as they fear betraying Trump, taking away their power in Congress is exactly the type of move that could get Trump impeached (a third time).
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Meanwhile joe biden: "gosh darn it I heckin wish I could do anything about these student loans that I passed a bill to protect from bankruptcy discharge, shucks"
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Pretending Biden did nothing to alleviate student loan debt when the reality is he rolled out an unprecedented number of programs, largely blocked by courts, is disingenuous
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Damn I must've missed the part where that's what I said
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As is pretending that, just because it's unprecedented to do ANYTHING about it, his means tested to death efforts were anywhere near enough.
In fact, the very means testing was HOW they managed to throw it out in court: by arguing that it's discriminatory to give debt relief to some, but not all.
You and I know that it's just a pretense, but if he had NOT included all of those overly restrictive terms and conditions, they couldn't use that and might not have succeeded.
And before you chime in with "but we have to make sure that only those who REALLY need debt relief gets it", first of all, no.
Making sure that all the people that DO need it get it and get it easily is many times more important than making sure that people who don't need it as badly won't.
Second of all, the truly rich don't HAVE student loans: if they came from a rich family, their parents paid outright, and if not, they did so themselves later. Nobody's at risk of paying Elon Musk's student loans.
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I think the biggest failure of the Biden government is that they didn't get out there and make enough noise about what they actually did accomplish, I know months before Obama's *first term was up he was on TV often explaining exactly what he did accomplish and what he planned on doing for another term, and he called out GOP obstructionism very clearly.
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Well it was a nice country while we had it. …. So long, and thanks for all the fish….
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Grab ‘em by the pursey… and when you’re a big star, The $upreme Court will usher you to it.
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he's gonna try to "impound" funds like alabama sheriffs pocket unspent prisoner meal funds... right into his own pocket.
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Alabama?
Buddy that's legal almost anywhere...
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Sorry, pal, the dart landed on Alabama.
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