WASHINGTON (AP) – Money started drying up quickly. President Donald Trump He has begun issuing his executive order.
It’s off to start Funding for the infant program. National Institutes of Health Grants. Funds for the people Public Library and the museum. Money from the landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Schools will build electric vehicle charging stations to help classrooms and state renovations. Federal Emergency Management Agency Food and Shelter support.
“There’s a lot of fear there,” said Tommy Sheridan, assistant director of the National Head Start Association. Early concerns Regarding delays in funds that could affect children and families.
While the money is mostly flowing again, I am grateful to celebrate this year’s 60th anniversary, mainly thanks to Head Start’s track record. “Obviously you need to make sure your funds are reliable.”
Billions of billions of dollars are said to be single-handed stalled, disposed or withheld This year, certain Congressional administration estimates that risks are as high as $400 billion, one of the bravest humiliations against the federal process in 50 years, as the Budget Act was overhauled during the Nixon era.
Trump’s funding violates the law, Watchdog says
Trump’s willingness to simply halt spending already approved by Congress and signed into law is a violation, according to non-partisan government observers. And it’s causing a crisis on Capitol Hill and beyond, with deep undercurrents of mistrust as lawmakers clash to block legislation. Federal government closures.
Sen. Patty Murray, a top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said at a summer hearing with Trump’s Budget Director, Russ Vote, Sen. Patty Murray, a top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, said “We should all be deeply wary of the administration’s charting here.” Project 2025.
On the surface, the position between Congress and the White House appears to be a government conflict Federal expenditure levelsand the Trump administration’s desire to end what is called “awakening” and the wasteful programmes around the world.
But from Doge’s budget enslavement Efforts under the billionaire Elon Musk On the budget Retracted package Vought was sent to Capitol Hill. What unfolds is a deeper discussion of the separation of power. It raises harsh questions about what would happen if the White House moved more aggressively and cut House and Senators’ members from the federal funding process.
This week, Trump’s management and budget offices are Prepare for mass firing – Reducing force, rather than simply warding off federal workers fur if it closes next week.
White House, Congress, separation of power
“This is a high point in the president’s claims about expenditure. This may be the best point ever,” said Kevin Kosar, a right-footed scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
The former president previously challenged Congress, but Jimmy Carter simply rejected dozens of spending bills, and George W. Bush used the presidential signature statement to open up sections of the law he opposed – Kosar said what Trump is doing “really gains logic” of the entire budget process.
“The rules don’t apply much anymore,” he said.
And it’s coming to the inflection point for next week on September 30, when Congress must pass laws to ensure that the government is not shut down.
Vought’s office did not respond to requests for interviews, but he is speaking out about his views and what will happen next.
From the Project 2025 page
Written in Project 2025, Vought explained that the “big challenge” facing conservative presidents is “an existential need for active use of the vast power of the administrative sector.”
Vought said this would require “audacity to bending or breaking bureaucracy towards the president’s will.”
Since Trump took office in January, the federal watchdog, the government’s accountability agency, has issued a surge in notifications of violations, in a rare responsibilities for cases where the Trump administration failed to release money in accordance with the Congressional Expenditure Act.
Among the numerous investigations GAO opened this year, uncertainty in funding for Head Start, NIH, museums and libraries, energy and transportation infrastructure programs, and FEMA have been violated. More decisions are expected in the coming days before the September 30 deadline for the federal government to get certain funds through the door.
GAO general advisor Edda Emmanuelli Perez said it was created over 100 years ago as a check for federal spending, and that the president has the ability to roll back spending as long as it continues the process.
“The president has the authority to make these proposals,” she said in an interview.
“If Congress decides, yes, we agree, we intend to pass the law to cancel the funds, and the funds will be cancelled,” she said. “If Congress doesn’t pass it, that means the President will need to return to the terms of the law once again and release those funds.”
After Nixon cut funds, Congress created a new law — and it is currently being challenged
This is outlined in the Congress-approved Water Storage Management Act in 1974 after concerns over then-President Richard Nixon’s refusal to allocate funds to programs he opposed. The White House is requesting Congress be notified of the proposed resignation. Congress will then have 45 days under rapid process to vote on the president’s proposal.
This summer, Republican-majority-held Congress approved Trump’s request It will save about $9 billion In already approved funding for public broadcasting, including national public radio and certain foreign aid programs, over Democratic objections.
However, Vought is testing the limits of the water storage method.
The White House sent Congress later last month Second retirement package $4.9 billion Cut to USAID Foreign Aid Program opposes the year-end deadline of September 30th. If Congress fails to act before next Tuesday, then the money will essentially disappear in the so-called “pocket withdrawal.”
“The Trump administration is committed to reconciliation of American financial homes by reducing government spending that is awakened, weaponized and wasted,” the White House announced its rescue proposal in a message to Congress.
“Now, for the first time in 50 years, the President has used his authority under the Water Storage Control Act to deploy a pocket withdrawal, cancelling $5 billion in foreign aid and funds from international organizations.”
A Maine Republican senator, the strong chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said the administration’s attempt to withdraw funds without Congressional approval was a “clear violation of the law.”
However, late on Friday, at the Supreme Court. A victory over Trump’s out of reachextended an order that allowed the administration to freeze funds.
