Congress is locked in a contentious funding battle with an overzealous president who has spent his first weeks in office working to make good on a campaign promise to "challenge the Impoundment ...

Given this ongoing fight and its potential implications, impoundment is poised to remain in the spotlight in the coming months. In response to Nixon's pernicious withholding, Congress in 1975 ...

Impoundment is when a president refuses to spend money that Congress has allocated, and returns that money to the Treasury.On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump implied he could use ...

The brewing showdown is over a centuries-old process called “impoundment” in which the president — whose administration is tasked with distributing funds — doesn’t allow congressionally ...

The Trump administration argued in its Tuesday memo the funding pause was not an impoundment, but rather a “temporary pause” that’s in line with actions previous presidents have taken.