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Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants by Tadpole9181 on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @08:02AM (#42851829)
Executive impoundment is explicitly illegal and unconstitutional, actually. The president does not have the power of the purse, that's congress.
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Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants by franktankbank on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @10:43AM (#42853594)
Arguably this is only temporary. I don't think Congress sets the timeline do they?
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Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants by dllthomas on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:57PM (#42857164)
It'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.
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Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants by imperial_march on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:25PM (#42858912)
No it's allowed, and has been done before by other presidents.

3 trillion is a lot of cash, how much of it is wastage/unnecessary?

My bet is - most of it.

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