Impoundment is when a president refuses to spend money allocated by Congress and returns the funds to the Treasury.

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, ...

As its name implies, impoundment is, fundamentally, when a president chooses to "withhold or delay the spending of funds that Congress has appropriated for the federal government to disburse," The ...

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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 ...

While it’s unclear what government funding will resume after the temporary pause and what Trump could try to get rid of permanently, the president could ultimately use impoundment to cut off ...