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Challenging the Administration’s Impoundment of Foreign Assistance Appropriations

OMB claims that President Trump has the power to freeze appropriations until after they expire.  GAO maintains that such action would violate the Constitution’s Separation of Powers and the Impoundment Control Act – the very statute Congress enacted to curb similar abuses by President Nixon.

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