Posted on 06/28/2023 8:31:46 PM PDT by bitt
Sources close to former President Trump say he has a plan for keeping Congress from ever again forcing him into “disgraceful” and “ridiculous” spending situations. If he returns to the White House, Trump will seek to resurrect authority that Congress stripped from the presidency almost a half century ago.
What President Nixon squandered, his campaign promises, Trump will restore, namely the impoundment power. “A lot of you,” the former president told a New Hampshire crowd Thursday, “don't know what that is.” Indeed, few now remember it.
Impoundment, if restored, would allow a president, in theory, to simply refuse to spend appropriations by Congress. More than just an avenue to cut spending, Trump sees that kind of authority as key to starving, and thus crushing, the so-called “deep state.”
But such a move would fundamentally alter the balance of power, and any effort to restore the long-forgotten authority virtually guarantees a protracted legal battle over who exactly controls the power of the purse. Trump welcomes that fight. Some budget experts believe he won’t get anywhere.
In a statement to RealClearPolitics, Trump described the impoundment power as "the secret weapon" to squeezing out "the bloated federal bureaucracy while still doing everything America needs and more."
"This constitutional power of the President should never have been curtailed," the former president added, "but I will get it back and will use it to stop inflation and bring federal spending under control."
Regardless, advisors close to the former president tell RealClearPolitics they are drawing up plans to challenge the 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act in court, and if that fails, to lean on the legislature to repeal it. The latter would require passing a law to surrender power, something lawmakers are loath to do.
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Agreed. I am a dyed in the wool Trump supporter, but if DeSantis gets the nomination, I will be voting for him. Anything to keep the Democrats out of the White House in the next four years. We must be unified in order to defeat, the cheating bastards on the other side. Trump should be president right now, and we need to make sure that he is again. He is the only one, in my opinion, who has the guts to withstand the weathering criticism, that will be received by anyone trying to dismantle the deep state. We also need to pull our origin internationally. We are way over extended, and on the verge of war with both Russia and China as a result. This is insanity, and I believe that Orly Trump has the gravitas to negotiate effectively with those two powers. But, nonetheless, if DeSantis is the nominee, or just about anybody else, who is a currently declare candidate, I will be voting for that person.
Starving and thus crushing the so-called “deep state.
Great idea it’s time to end the Marxist power grabbers once and for all for liberty is to survive.
Fake news, KoalaKai.
God bless you, JimRob!
Thank you very much, Bob Ireland! God bless you.
I am 80 today, Jim. A lot of miles behind me; lots of miles behind us! I pray it doesn’t end the way that it is trending. sigh.
Don’t remember Paul Ryan huh? He offered no deal and even broke their sworn rpromise to repeal ObamaCare.
Yep, she definitey hjas suffered a great deal of brioan shronkahe whichi has ressuried her eyes.
Head soon to explode!
Neck shows extreme stress too. Maybe she will explode.
Didn’t the Supreme Court in Nixon’s day neuter impoundment?
Gmta
Big Contrast:
Trump Supporters:
Trump Derangement Syndrome:
https://drrichswier.com/2018/08/11/trump-derangement-syndrome-a-prelude-to-anarchy/
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