Simply, this meant that If Congress provided more funds than what is needed to run the government, the president could refuse to waste the extra funds & return the money to the general treasury & maybe even lower your taxes.
Thomas Jefferson famously used this power, as did many other presidents until it was wrongfully curtailed by the impoundment control act of 1974 (the year the petro dollar was born coincidentally).
When I return to the White House:
• I will challenge the Impoundment Control Act in court & if necessary get congress to overturn it. “We will overturn it”.
• I will use the president Impoundment power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings. This will tax reductions for you.
• On day 1, I will order every federal agency to identify large chunks of their budgets that can be saved through efficiencies & waste reduction, using impoundment.
• Some of the funds we save through impoundment, can be used in Medicare & social security for years to come.
• Restoring the presidents impoundment authority, this will restore critical negotiating leverage with congress to keep spending under control.
“Bringing back impoundment will give us a crucial tool to obliterate the deep state, drain the swamp, & starve the warmongers… with impoundment, we can simply choke off the money.”
The left has very little power without the government money.
*without OUR money
Well now you know why the globalists rig elections. Their true power is based on compliance and they can achieve this through layers and layers of red tape.
I'm not able to read small print and so I have copied this post and enlarged enough to read and it is printing out as we speak but I only had one this to say:
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!!
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u/#pepedetective
So all of you anons out there who enjoy research (I'm a very shallow researcher because i just don't have the time) we need to educate absolutely the entire board on what impoundment means and how President Trump might be considering how to use it. To me if President Trump said that, then that is what he is asking anons to research for him. Get to work researchers.
Top agencies to impound 100% from: Fbi, DEA, HHS, ATF, Homeland security, dept of education, IRS, cia, DOJ, state dept, FDA who am i missing? then stop all money to NGOs.
And no more "grants" to foreign countries.
This is our only hope.
For a quick and dirty:
https://wikiless.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_funds?lang=en
Note how this restriction was rammed through. Watergate.
There are basically two actions that the President can use:
It becomes even spicier to think about spending itself. Let' s just say Congress thinks it wise to move a lot of money abroad to persecute a non-declared war. The President is not obliged to sign that act into law. He can veto it and then 2/3 of Congress must approve the spending.
Can Potus then say: you know, I agree with the object matter but not the size? So I will spent only 15% of it instead of 100% as 85% is simply waste, leaving an appropriation surplus in the treasury?
Would be fun.