Since taking office, the Trump administration and DOGE have been seeking to unilaterally override the spending plans set by ...

the president could refuse to waste the extra funds." Giving the president the power of impoundment, he said, would help him balance the budget, "drain the swamp" and "obliterate the deep state." ...

“For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending through what is known as impoundment,” Trump said. “Very ...