TLDR
Understanding the Power of Impoundment is critical to anons grasping how Swamp's gained control over the POTUS position and what (possibly) Trump has been doing to reverse this. We should investigate this critical aspect, gain a deeper grasp of "The Plan" and activate the American People to support this key Policy via information and memetic warfare.
Introduction
Today I watched a short video by Epoch Times "Facts Matter" Report on DJT's proposal to restore the Power of Impoundment.
You can watch this [15 min. video]((https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/trump-invokes-long-lost-executive-power-to-gut-administrative-state-facts-matter-5650876) if you have an Epoch Account, or you sign in with Google or input your email address.
Here is the report blurb:
In a campaign speech, former President Donald Trump gave the country a glimpse into the specific method that he’ll use to try and gut the administrative state—if he gets elected again. Essentially, President Trump proposed a new policy centered around a little-known executive power—a power that was used by presidents for over 150 years before being stripped about a half-century ago.
However, according to this new proposal, President Trump said that he would work to restore what’s known as the “power of impoundment.”
Below, I introduce some of the key points of the video and other related issues.
Trump's Proposal for Trump Administration 2.0
Today, I am proposing another new policy that will help us Drain the Swamp. To stop Biden’s wasteful spending and crippling inflation, I will fight to restore the president’s historic IMPOUNDMENT power. A lot of you don't know what that is. For 200 years, the president had the right to block unneeded spending and return the funds to the Treasury. They stopped that.
Congress unconstitutionally (probably) attacked the impoundment power in 1974, but it will come back. We're gonna bring it back, and we will squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy, and instead of us just having to spend it, we're going to reduce our debt....
SAUCE: Trump Speech, New Hampshire June 27, 2023. Time Mark 53:55~
How Power of Impoundment was lost: The Clash Between Nixon and Congress
In the 70's, inflation was spiraling out of control. Nixon blamed Congressional Spending, and tried to impose a limit on spending.
President Nixon appealed to Congress today to protect the “economic interest of all American citizens” by enacting a $250‐billion spending ceiling, and threatened to veto any measure he deemed excessive.....
In his message to Congress, Mr. Nixon said that spending for the fiscal year 1973, which began July 1, was already nearly $7‐billion higher than he had planned in his budget.
“That figure by itself is bad enough,” the President said, but he noted that even more spending “appears to be on the way. The inevitable result,” he said, “would be higher taxes and more income‐eating inflation in the form of higher prices.” He added:
“I am convinced the American people do not want their family budgets wrecked by higher taxes and higher prices, and I will not stand by and permit such irresponsible action to undermine the clear progress we have made in getting America's workers off the inflation treadmill of the nineteen‐sixties.”
SAUCE: New York Times, July 27, 1972
Congress ignored Nixon, appropriated even more money, but then Nixon simply refused to spend it. This is the power of impoundment. Essentially, he impounded the money that was allocated by congress.
This power of impoundment was used by US presidents for more than 150 years, starting from the Jefferson administration.
The concept here is that the budget set by congress is the ceiling, the maximum that the executive can spend in that fiscal year. The budget from congress sets the limit, but it is still in the president's discretion whether his administration actually spends it or not.
However, Nixon was in a very tight spot, because of the Watergate situation, and when the Deep State pressured Nixon to comply with Congress, he signed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
The Impact of Losing the Power of Impoundment
After this, instead of Congress setting the max ceiling the Administration can spend, it now sets the minimum floor that the administration must spend. The president has to spend it; he can no longer 'impound' that money.
Russ Vought, Trump’s last director of the Office of Management and Budget, calls the concession of impoundment power “the original sin” that ensured “the executive branch no longer plays a meaningful role” in the appropriations process. Vought told RCP in an interview that the power of the purse has become “caricature,” where rather than “setting ceilings,” Congress now sets “spending floors.”
Hence, Trump’s “unhappy” signature on multiple multi trillion-dollar spending bills.
Trump promised he would “never sign another bill like this again” before putting his signature on a “crazy” $1.3 trillion spending bill in 2018. Two years later, he signed another omnibus bill, this one worth $1.4 trillion, that he called “disgraceful.” Both times, Trump justified voting for the bloated bills conservatives loathed by pointing to increased military spending.
SAUCE: Trump Plan To Bypass Congress and Starve ‘The Deep State’; Real Clear Politics, June 28 2023
If the power of impoundment is restored, then this would give the POTUS the discretion how much his administration spends, instead of only having a veto power against congressional bills.
Trump Bumps Up Against the Power of Impoundment
In 2019, DJT's administration 'froze' the funds Congress had assigned to be given to Ukraine. Then, in his famous phone call with Zelensky, Trump discussed investigations in to the Biden corruption, and this triggered the impeachment proceedings in Jan 2020.
Here is how NPR spins it:
"A federal watchdog concluded that President Trump broke the law when he froze assistance funds for Ukraine last year, according to a report unveiled on Thursday.
The White House has said that it believed Trump was acting within his legal authority.
Trump's decision to freeze military aid appropriated by Congress is at the heart of impeachment proceedings against the president that are shifting venues this week from the Democrat-controlled House to the majority-Republican Senate.
Democratic lawmakers have accused Trump of abusing his office by withholding hundreds of millions in assistance in order to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals."
So Trump 'freezes the funds, triggering accusations that he violated the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, and sets up the perfect framework for raising the issue of quid-pro-quo which damns the Biden Crime family.
This was a double-whammy. One, Trump lured the Deep State into accusing him of the quid-pro-quo that he already knew Biden was 100% guilty of, and Two, he brought the issue of the Power of Impoundment into the fight, while remaining innocent, because they only 'froze' the funds and did not actually 'impound' the funds.
The Deep State could not resist the temptation, accused Trump of violating the Impoundment Control act of 1974 in order to 'illegally' pressure Zelensky to undermine/attack his political rival, Biden.
See also: how the Swamp spins this: Dispelling The Myth That President Trump’s Ukraine Aid Freeze Was Rooted In His Desire To Combat Corruption
Trump 2024 Campaign Video (4 minutes) on Restoring Impoundment
2024 Trump Platform - Restoring Impoundment to "Cut Waste, Stop Inflation" aka Crush the Deep State
Discussion
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Understanding how the president's impoundment powers were lost gives insight into the war that the Deep State was waging against Richard Nixon. Was Nixon taken down by the Deep State? Was Nixon the next domino in the Cabal destroying the American presidency, after Kennedy was assassinated?
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Is it a coincidence that the Power of Impoundment issue was key to the Trump impeachment in 2020? Was the 'freezing' of the Ukraine funds and the then 'perfect phone call' with Zelensky part of DJT's plan to expose quid-pro-quo not only by Biden Crime Family, but by so many corrupt players in the Swamp?
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Did Trump's 202 impeachment a) educate the American people on the concept of quid-pro-quo, advancing the foundation for awakening and b) public mandate for prosecution of the Swamp in Trump Administration 2.0?
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Has the restoration of the Power of Impoundment been part of the White Hat plan all along to actually destroy and drain the swamp? Could this aspect of the Plan be advanced successfully without public mandate?
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How important is the restoration of the Power of Impoundment?
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Epilogue
I think that digging into this particular issue has helped me to gain insight into one aspect of the Plan by the White Hats to recover the Republic and has added to my perspective on the decades-long war against the American People that the Cabal (and Satan) has perpetrated by attacking and destroying the US Presidency.
Destroying the US Presidency: All the way from Assassination to the Manchurian Candidate
Eisenhower: Fired Warning Shots against the DS
Kennedy: Executed because he threatened the DS
Johnson: The Cabal replaces Kennedy, claims the Presidency
Nixon: White Hats fighting back, but power of Presidency already curtailed, prestige of Presidency decimated and Nixon removed
Ford, Carter - Consolidation of swamp power, advancing destruction of America
Reagan: White Hats attempting to fight back, but Presidency already irreversibly crippled
Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama: Cabal progressively entrenching power, destroying the American constitutional Republic
Trump #1: White Hats gain control of the Game Board, White Hats lay the foundation for restoration
Biden: Cabal cornered into exposing themselves, DS consistently being forced into moves that destroy them
Trump #2: Execution of Justice Phase and complete destruction of the DS and Cabal foundation, the starting point for truly restoring America
See also: "the 3-stage Plan" concept
Stage #1 : "The Sting": Trump Administration No. 1, laying the foundation, laying the traps, preparation phase
Stage #2 : "Disclosure and Exposure": Devolution Phase aka "sort of" Administration #2: Building the public mandate via awakening, exposing the reality of the Deep State and Swamp, red-pilling America
Stage #3 : "Justice And Execution": Trump Administration No. 2, implementation of justice, cleaning the swamp, reestablishment of rule of Law, restoring the republic
For Reference
VIDEO: What The Deep State Is - In 3 Minutes - Jacob Chansley with Tucker Carlson
Hat tip to Uber-Contributor u/purkiss80/ who posted on this topic 2 weeks ago: https://greatawakening.win/p/17t1fQlVrV/trump-statement-agenda-47--using/
Every once in a while we find an Anon with pure original concept that throws some more light on the Q plan, and this is one of those posts. Keep up the good work Anon.
And to add:
I think taking back the power of impoundment will only work after the bank collapse and Fed has been gutted, because as long as they have the control of the currency, they can collapse the economy if a president refuses to over spend.
So power of impoundment goes hand in hand with the financial precipice and is yet another pillar of the precipice.
Fresh bread out of the oven smells great!
Also, The FED was brought in at a time the country was going through upheavals since Dec 23, 1913 (looked it up)...
Imagine using impoundment to getting rid of the FED, which gets rid of a good portion of the DEEP STATE and actors for DS and by getting rid of the FED causes the FED to DEFAULT (BANKS will default anyways due to their books being OVER-INFLATED) and the TREASURY is NOT hit hard as much...
AND OUR MONEY causes the biggest swing in modernization of all times...
WOWZA!!!!
FractalizingIron ...Golf Clap for a job well done!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Eagle.
re: the Fed, I'm not certain if or how impoundment would deal with or get rid of the fed.Because the Fed isn't actually federal government. Impoundment would mean that the President (Trump) could starve deep state bureaucracies of funds, thus reducing their size, staff and operational power.
On a related note, I don't know much about the details, but I have heard discussion about Trump actually absorbing the Fed into the US Treasury during his previous administration, thus actually neutralizing it already, and then using the Treasury to absorb / control all the super big banks that it has been "bailing out".
As I said, I haven't dug into the details, but I agree that resolving the FED problem is key to restoring the Republic.
Its not enough to get rid of Fed as well, you also need to change the people's mindset fundamentally and drill into their brains why wee should not spend beyond the means as a country.
When Nixon agreed to go off the gold standard (and I am assuming as a result had to get rid of the impoundment act) he was facing a very tough choice. The french warships were in NY harbour ready to take the Gold that US owed the French. It was the classic "Banker Fix". Lose your Gold or let go of the power of gold by going fiat.
All this happened because of two world wars and all the socialism under FDR where they spent millions they didn't have with the New Deal and crap.
We can never let ourselves be put into that position, and that means saying no to even one dollar beyond what we can afford and cutting down the government into the smallest necessary to function.
There is a LONG slog ahead and most of it has to do with making people understand all this. I hope Anons are up for our most important jobs.
https://youtu.be/IKuVO4JaqBY?si=DXWUMmXVkJKC7ezf
We could start with some good education about how we got here and who was involved. This is pretty damn good.
There is another element in all this: the economic theory of Keynes, which has been adopted in so many nations, vs. the theory of Hayek.
Seems to me, economic theory is one of the pillars that upholds the bankers matrix. No problem with govt using debt or printing money to inject it into the economy. Boom and bust cycle that the bankers then exploit and each time increase their own wealth.
Hayek essentially said no borrowing. Let the national wealth increase by promoting saving, where the govt doesn't spend or interfere with the economic activity of the people, allowing people to exert their natural tendency to accumulate wealth.
Keynes theory helps blow government up into a behemoth when government should always be a work horse at best. I'm no expert at ll, but it seems to me that part of throwing off the shackles of the bankers involves education of the people and the leadership of a nation on why Hayek's (Vienna school) theory of economics is sane, when Keynes is lunacy (from the viewpoint of the People).
And on that note, one of my favorite yutub vids:
Keynes vs Hayek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
YES!!!
Keynes theory is the basic building block of the fiat fraud. It gave thee "academic legitimacy" for something that sounds so stupid even from basic common sense "Lets print as much money as we want to do all the liberal stuff".
This is how they corrupt academia. They introduce stupidest notions, and they use the rest of the academia to put up a show resistance and finally move in the direction they want.
We saw the same thing in Virology, Climate "science" etc as well.
virology.... I doubt I'll EVER get around to that one. Climate Science... sheesh, what a snow job that was.
Glad to have your agreement BB. Hayek was one the my redpill trains I boarded after Bastiat's the Law took me along the red pill line for several stops.
So many lines of awakening to be developed. I guess you only really build a matrix with hundreds and thousands of lines of deceit.... grrrr.....
This is an awesome insightful post on the strategies the white hats have employed.
Great higher level analysis!
Great read.
Good job.
Jefferson was the first the use this power in lieu of reducing the debt by not spending 50.000 dollars on gunboats.
Trump already indicated that drill baby drill will not only increase the Federal Revenue, but also allows for tax reduction and paying off debt.
The bloated spending bills of Congress, like spending money on a study of a certain fish being more aggressive on Tequila then Kentucky Whiskey are spending fit for impoundment.
BTW, I had to add this word to the dictionary of my browser. This perfectly shows how forgotten the word is.
At any rate, it indeed helps to balance the budget and to restore a semblance of balance between the purse and execution.
Also shows how woefully pathetic browser dictionaries and "spell check" ("grammar check" too) really are
Programmed by people (?) who haven't mastered grammar and spelling LOL
A new state bank is also needed. Every state should have their own.
Excellent analysis.
Question: Won't Congress have to approve the repeal of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974?
Yes. There are a few possible routes Trump could use to restore the Power of Impoundment to the presidency.
One is getting congress to repeal the Control Act of 1974. This might be a hard task, as it would mean getting Congress to relinquish power that they currently have. It would require a truly Maga-controlled Congress.
Another route would be to get SCOTUS to declare the Control Act to be unconstitutional. This could be done by Trump actually impounding funding, then being charged by Congress with an illegal act, and then Trump appealing the issue to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court ruling the Act unconstitutional and therefore void.
That would seem like a risky route, UNLESS Trump was 100% confident of Scotus making an "unconstitutional" rule.
Given that he seems confident of restoring the power to the presidency, I guess (at this point) that Trump knows things we don't know, which may include knowing with more certainty obtaining a truly Maga Congress in 2024, or that scotus is in the bag.
The second seems less likely, as it might raise issues of conflict of the separation of powers, so perhaps DJT has inside info on what the Congress of 2024 will actually be.
Either way, yes, the Act would have to be repealed or struck down.
I am surprised that the DS didn't kill Nixon for that.... But I guess that it would have been too soon to return to the method of a crime....
spot on. he got punished differently.
Yes, I think so. Kennedy was a clear warning to any subsequent presidents to play ball or at least, to be very very careful in taking on the DS.
They had a heck of a time pulling off the Kennedy Oswald psyop, and so another one might be a lot riskier.
Of course, by destroying Nixon's reputation, the gained the added bonus of discouraging and demoralizing the People and increasing the Left-Right divide, all of which plays in to their game plan.
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Wow, great high content post on an under-appreciated topic. Fantastic way to start the day. Look forward to impoundment memes..
I hope so. I'd love to see meme war erupt on this. I feel like its a key concept that DJT could really use anon support on. Not to mention prayer and spiritual support.
I think he's just giving us a preview now. Wouldn't come into play until 2025 at the earliest.
kick ass as always.
i love the timeline of the Presidents. Do you have anything knocking around about their roles through the early 20th? lots going on with the fed/titanic, the birth of big gov from the depression and the world wars.
i also look at your work here and wonder how deeply we're still in the psywar phase. like if you just nailed a 100% prediction of how it will play out and there's no more need for uncertainty or rope-a-dope tactics. or if what's laid out here is an explanation of another diversionary tactic and the killing stroke will be with some other method. i guess the military M.O. is to have a lot of tools at your disposal and using the one that hurts the enemy the most when the time is right.
Thank you 2nd.
I'm not very familiar with the US presidents of the first half of the century, but I do have a bad impression of Truman, because of the way he handled the Korean War and MacArthur.
A thought regarding "military is the only way". I wonder if this was planting the seeds of what they thought would be the most likely scenario aka as it has played out.
Trump would do all sorts of stuff in the first administration, and white hats could easly predict that the Cabal would do anything to get rid of him, and very likely try to actually steal the 2020 election. I mean, Trump knew that there was a very high % chance that they would; he even explained it and Q spoke openly about the pandemic strategy.
But as is the way with good, the deep state players were given many opportunities to not go ahead with it. The cutoff point probably came on Jan 6, when they actually went ahead to do the electoral college that put Biden in play. From there, no turning back.
The idea here is that if they actually went ahead and did it, even thought they knew that Trump knew, that devolution would be necessary in order to preserve the Republic during the unlawful 'Biden' phase. Devolution involves military level protocols, and in the end, it would be the military that would be the backbone of any continuity of government strategy.
For a long time, many of us thought 'military tribunals' i.e. the perps being rounded up and dragged of to Guantanamo, for example, but in 2024, I think we need to consider that this direction of thought was a deliberate diversionary tactic.
I think it's been planned out in a number of scenarios, so at any juncture, the team with the upper hand (white hats) know already what they would do in a given situation. At this point, I feel (and this is totally subjective) that the course has been set, any moves by the enemy simply advance the outcome more swiftly, and that the enemy does NOT know the playbook, whereas the white hats know all the enemy's playbook.
Until Justice begins to kick in in earnest, I think the psywar will continue.
thanks so much for the insight my fren. i'm envious of your clearheadedness, my brain is turned to mush presently. 🤣
I have always seen the white hat way you describe as selling rope to the BHs and letting them tie themselves together. i like to explain to normies it's just a huge RICO case, and guliani's involvment isn't coincidental.
Always love how you organize your thoughts Fractal.
And great minds. I posted this yesterday morning:
In this thread:
https://greatawakening.win/p/17t1ow2V2m/its-time-to-address-this-commonl/
Impoundment should go hand in hand with line item veto.
Thanks for the feedback, Longtime.
I don't know about 'great' minds (kek), but at a minimum, awakened minds! Great comment.
Interestingly, we can see an archetypal narrative arch at work here, too.
Star Wars 1: A New Hope
Star Wars 2: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 3: Return of the Jedi
(ignoring that "episode IV" nonsense that Lucas employed)
Top notch post. I got edjumacated today!
We've had the ability to stop this since the nation's inception. The bankers willingness to murder anyone who opposed them ruined us. Now we must have a ruthless campaign against any all ashkanazi bankers and their minions in every government on the globe. Including the worlds dominant religious hoaxsters in rome and all their tentacles of leaveraged power. They must be crushed utterly. Does the world have the stomach for it?
The real question is how fervently is humanity willing to reach out to God, who is the conductor. Humanity alone cannot resolve this, cannot resolve evil. But neither can God, the creator. Unless we reach out to him, and unite profoundly with him - and I don't mean this in a religious sense, but in a realistic sense, by bringing God into our individual, family, social and national lives (again not religiously, but tangibly in terms of heart connection), then God cannot complete the work.
The world needs to be cleansed, as you say. And, I don't think it's true that we've had the ability to stop this since the start of the nation. because the root problem is the evil lurking at the bottom of each person's heart.
Cleansing out the evil will involve a complete reversal of our life priorities, where the benefit and blessing of others becomes our priority instead of self-gain. When men and women live for each other, everyone is raised.
Socialism destroys this, but society is advanced by free men and women who live for each other and for their fellow man, and who share their prosperity by giving something back. Donald Trump is the poster boy of this sort of revolution of heart that needs to take place. Everything he has been doing since 2015 is for the sake of his nation and his own people. When that spirit is adopted by each man and woman, around the world, evil will not have a leg to stand on.
Thus, ultimately, the external 'revolution' that cleanses out the evil cancerous systems and societies that have sucked the blood of the world for millennia must be precipitated by an internal revolution, where people live in accordance with the universal principle of living not for self as the top priority, but living for others - individuals for their families, families for their community, communities for their society, societies for the nation, and nations for the world.
The heart of God is to give in love, invest in love, and sacrifice for love. That is the spirit that can cleanse the world and reverse thousands of years of corrupt unlawful rulers who live by deceit and manipulation.
When humanity truly embraces God and unites with God, religion will not be necessary. Religion is the stepping stone, but personally, I think that the era of religion is passing, and the era of relationship is beginning.