The legal fight is far from over. Dozens of cases related to spending and appropriations are still being litigated. And the administration’s proposed pocket recission — which would cancel funding close enough to the end of the fiscal year that Congress is effectively powerless to stop it — is sure to be challenged in court, too. трипскан вход
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the move a “brazenly unlawful scam” and referred to Trump as a “wannabe King.” And the top Democrat on the Senate spending panel, Sen. Patty Murray, said Congress should reject the “ridiculous, illegal maneuver.”
“Republicans should not accept Russ Vought’s brazen attempt to usurp their own power. No president has a line-item veto—and certainly not a retroactive line-item veto,” the Washington state Democrat said last week.
And the move has met some resistance from members of the president’s own party. Top Senate appropriator Susan Collins called it “a clear violation of the law,” while Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski argued that “Congress alone bears the constitutional responsibility for funding our government, and any effort to claw back resources outside of the appropriations process undermines that responsibility.”