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Executive impoundment is explicitly illegal and unconstitutional, actually. The president does not have the power of the purse, that's congress.
by Tadpole9181 2y ago
Executive impoundment is explicitly illegal and unconstitutional, actually. The president does not have the power of the purse, that's congress.
- franktankbank 2y agoArguably this is only temporary. I don't think Congress sets the timeline do they?
- dllthomas 2y agoIt's not immediately clear to me how we should read the Constitution on that question, but the Impoundment Control Act seems to explicitly include "delay" alongside "withholding" in things that it might be forbidding.
- imperial_march 2y ago[flagged]