President Trump’s new attempt Cancel the money approved by Congress Through the “Pocket Rescishes”, a political land for the Congress is setting up a mine as it runs to stop the government shutdown until 30 September.
As the so -called pocket rescue, Democrats warned that the efforts by the administration to refund the money of unilateral claws would be seriously weakened by the fragile dualization required to fund the government.
And there are some Republicans Looks alarmQuestion whether this step is legal and to say that it reduces the desire of the Congress.
Senate Minority Leader Chak Shumar (DN.Y.) Said in a statement on Friday The latest announcement by the administration is evidence that “Trump and Congress’s Republican is going to dismiss the bipartine and ‘this fall’ alone.”
He said, “As the country looks at the deadline for next month’s government funding on 30 September, it is clear that neither President Trump nor the Republican of the Congress has a plan to escape from a painful and completely unnecessary shutdown,” he said.
Susan Colins (R-Men), chairman of the Senate Republican’s Chief Financial Nutritional Dialogue, said, said, “Any attempt to cancel approved money without the approval of the Congress is a clear violation of the law.”
“Given that the package was sent to the Congress very close to the end of the financial year, when the money was set to end, it is a clear attempt to cancel the appropriated money without the approval of the Congress,” he said, while also referring to the “power of the purse of the Congress”.
“Instead of this effort to reduce the law, the appropriate way is to identify ways to reduce excessive expenditure through bipartisate, annual investment process,” he said, Congress “approved regular rescue as part of this process.”
Rescue request sentSpeaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) On Thursday, the Foreign Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) were called to withdraw $ 5 billion in funding, which the administration ended earlier this year.
Under the budget law controlling this process, known as the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), the administration asked the Congress to cancel select funds. While the legalists consider that request, the administration is allowed to temporarily withdraw funds for 45 days. If the MPs rejected the request, the money should be released.
Democrats were angry before this summer when the Republican at the Congress approved such a request with party lines, accusing them of using a biased maneuver, which was passed on bipartisan basis.
But Trump has the latest proposalA pocket is known as rescueBecause September 30 is less than 45 days by the end of the financial year, which means that the administration can completely bypass the Congress and simply run the clock.
Some MPs have illegally described the request and said that it is strategically close to the end of the financial year, so that the targeted amount can be canceled without the Congress.
Sen Patty Murray (Wash.), The top Democrat of the Senate Appropriation Committee criticized the targeted cuts, which is “not only spending investment as a gate-out-off-jewelery free card” by the Congress to not spend only investment “and said that MPs should emphasize decision making on spending through the Bipartisan appropriation process.”
Trump officials have argued that the strategy is legal. Russell Wout, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), described the controversial maneuver before this summer as “one of the executive equipment”, which is “on the table” to reduce the expenses.
A White House official on Friday argued that he “doesn’t believe that it should be distracted by the appropriation process.”
He said, “Talked with a senator this morning who said, you know, it will take time to consider this bill,” he said. “Again, we do not believe that this bill needs to be considered because it is an executive machinery that allows us to bank to bank only using the process.”
He also argued that the step indicates that the administration wants “a closed”.
“This is not true,” the official said. “This in some cases we believe that will help with members who are not usually accustomed to a constant resolution or are ready to vote, which will really keep the government open. Therefore, we believe that it will not contribute to the argument made by Democrats in any way, it will cause the government’s shutdown.”
Since the cut package was broken, many conservatives have made the move to keep calls for more rescue.
“President Trump scored $ 5 billion in foreign aid with pocket protection – first in about 50 years.” On social platform x“The President is putting America first instead of sending his tax dollar abroad !!”
Between the cuts in administrationTouted in proposal The cancellation of $ 3.2 billion for the Development Assistance Account for USAID provides $ 393 million for the United Nations’s “Payment for the US Share”, $ 393 million, and the United Nations and other international organizations “provide funding for assessment contributions” to the United Nations and other international organizations.
The administration described the funds as “awake, weapons, and useless”, while “climate flexibility in Honduras,” “Small holder for farmers for microorganisms for microorganisms and climate disaster response,” Micro-Bima for World Trade Organization and International Labor Organization “,” to punish the US corporate interests “,”
The White House said, “The Trump administration is committed to achieving the fiscal house of the United States, cutting the government’s expenses, armed and useless,” said the White House.
Cuts mark the latest efforts of the administration targeting foreign aid this year.
In July, Trump Successfully back About 9 billion dollars in already allocated funds for foreign aid and public broadcasting, Republicans in both chambers approved cuts with zero democratic support – but not without some headaches for GOP leaders.
There was uncertainty about the possibility of the passage of the bill to be passed at that time about concerns about deduction in global health programs, as well as how to fare from local and tribal stations to public media funds. Some GOP MPs also collided with the administration at that time, which they argued that there was a lack of information in the administration’s request.
In an interview on Friday, Bobby Kugan, a former Senate budget colleague and senior director of the federal budget policy at the left-handed center for American progress, focused a renewed focus of the administration on foreign aid in the most recent rescue request.
“I think they were worried that if they had done all this at that time, it would not have passed,” he argued. “There is a legal way to save money, which they had earlier taken for foreign aid, and then they are sending more for it through illegal means, and it really shows that the entire purpose is to get the entire objective around the Congress, about which they are clear.”
She compared the request to start the “Atom Bomb”, such as the Congress prepares to ramp the funding negotiations before the shutdown deadline.
“This definitely enhances the possibility of a shutdown,” he said.
Brett Samuels contributed.
