Trump Tries Impoundment Control Act To Cut Spending
The shutdown is averted, COVID relief and unemployment relief is assured, but President Trump is not done yet.
In the waning days of his adminstration, President Trump has been pushing for the COVID relief bill to include a bigger direct payment – to the point of threatening to veto the whole kit and caboodle (not just the National Defense Authorization Act) in order to make a point about getting more of the pork stripped out and money into the hands of the American people. If Trump was going to be staying in the White House, this whole scenario would have likely played out much differently, because he would have had more leverage beyond Inauguration Day.
after that another official whose name is redacted. i m aware of one individual in the budgets review office who expressed concerns. were those concerns expressed to you? yes. question, okay, and who was that individual at brd? answer, name was redacted. what did that redacted person s name tell you? she made a general comment that reflected a concern about the apportionments. her control was vis-a-vis the impoundment control. once congress has allocated these funds, the president cannot hold them up. the president was trying to
sir, i am not a lawyer, but that approximates my understanding of the provision of the impoundment control. i ll go with that approximates. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. as paul harvey said, here is the rest of the story. my colleague failed to put certain issues with respect to the certification. dod certification was not corrupt large throughout ukraine but on institution reforms and combat capability. is that correct, miss cooper? that s correct, sir. thank you for being here. i appreciate that. my colleague read it when he reread your statement but left off the correct emphasis. the certification in may didn t really speak to the broader concept of corruption throughout the rest of ukraine that the president would be familiar with, or the rest of us would be familiar with. sir, the may certification was specific to the defense sector.