Good news! Once more, it confirms that President Trump is very serious about reducing federal spending!
"The White House plans to cancel nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid in a rare “pocket rescission,” a legally complex maneuver that hasn’t been used in 48 years.
The federal rescissions process allows the president to make a request to Congress to cancel already-approved funding within 45 days. Congress did this for the administration last month to rescind funding for public broadcasting.
However, a pocket rescission skirts that 45-day window and avoids giving Congress a say by coming so close to the end of a fiscal year that lawmakers don’t have time to weigh in. The fiscal year ends on Sept. 30."
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