Trump's "pocket rescission" of $810 million in spending across several agencies, an appropriation Trump himself previously signed into law, is troubling, not because the spending in question is good, but because it strikes at Congress's constitutional power of the purse. [David Ditch, @cato.org]
Congress Should Put an End to Pocket Rescissions
Congress has the power and responsibility to authorize and manage all aspects of federal spending. It should start acting like it.
www.cato.org
October 1, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Trump's "pocket rescission" of $810 million in spending across several agencies, an appropriation Trump himself previously signed into law, is troubling, not because the spending in question is good, but because it strikes at Congress's constitutional power of the purse. [David Ditch, @cato.org]
They've been around since I was a kid. They're little rescissions (I assume a Japanese thing) you collect in a ball and make fight.
October 1, 2026 at 2:14 PM
They've been around since I was a kid. They're little rescissions (I assume a Japanese thing) you collect in a ball and make fight.
Sen.Patty Murray- 9/30
🤑💲🤥💲💥💲🤥💲🤑
Sen PATTY MURRAY, Vice Chair/Senate Appropriations Cmte, & Sen JEFF MERKLEY (D-OR), Budget Cmte, in seeking UNANIMOUS CONSENT to pass a COMMON SENSE BILL to STOP PEDOLF from ROBBING the AMERICAN PEOPLE through illegal “POCKET RESCISSIONS”
youtube.com/watch?v=-wXp...
🤑💲🤥💲💥💲🤥💲🤑
Sen PATTY MURRAY, Vice Chair/Senate Appropriations Cmte, & Sen JEFF MERKLEY (D-OR), Budget Cmte, in seeking UNANIMOUS CONSENT to pass a COMMON SENSE BILL to STOP PEDOLF from ROBBING the AMERICAN PEOPLE through illegal “POCKET RESCISSIONS”
youtube.com/watch?v=-wXp...
I'm forcing a vote to STOP Trump from Stealing Taxpayer Dollars
YouTube video by Senator Patty Murray
youtube.com
October 1, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Sen.Patty Murray- 9/30
🤑💲🤥💲💥💲🤥💲🤑
Sen PATTY MURRAY, Vice Chair/Senate Appropriations Cmte, & Sen JEFF MERKLEY (D-OR), Budget Cmte, in seeking UNANIMOUS CONSENT to pass a COMMON SENSE BILL to STOP PEDOLF from ROBBING the AMERICAN PEOPLE through illegal “POCKET RESCISSIONS”
youtube.com/watch?v=-wXp...
🤑💲🤥💲💥💲🤥💲🤑
Sen PATTY MURRAY, Vice Chair/Senate Appropriations Cmte, & Sen JEFF MERKLEY (D-OR), Budget Cmte, in seeking UNANIMOUS CONSENT to pass a COMMON SENSE BILL to STOP PEDOLF from ROBBING the AMERICAN PEOPLE through illegal “POCKET RESCISSIONS”
youtube.com/watch?v=-wXp...
🤔 Are pocket rescissions legal?
No. A pocket rescission is illegal as we explained in our most recent decision on pocket rescissions. Congress holds the power approving a budget and appropriating funds. Presidents and executive branch agencies are responsible for administering funds.
No. A pocket rescission is illegal as we explained in our most recent decision on pocket rescissions. Congress holds the power approving a budget and appropriating funds. Presidents and executive branch agencies are responsible for administering funds.
October 1, 2026 at 4:14 AM
🤔 Are pocket rescissions legal?
No. A pocket rescission is illegal as we explained in our most recent decision on pocket rescissions. Congress holds the power approving a budget and appropriating funds. Presidents and executive branch agencies are responsible for administering funds.
No. A pocket rescission is illegal as we explained in our most recent decision on pocket rescissions. Congress holds the power approving a budget and appropriating funds. Presidents and executive branch agencies are responsible for administering funds.
“When it comes to rescissions, however, Trump invents work-arounds for Congress-passed laws, making infinitesimal cuts to funding he previously approved and then gloating about taking “historic action to eliminate wasteful and harmful spending.” apple.news/AftEIzJ1QS-u...
October 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
“When it comes to rescissions, however, Trump invents work-arounds for Congress-passed laws, making infinitesimal cuts to funding he previously approved and then gloating about taking “historic action to eliminate wasteful and harmful spending.” apple.news/AftEIzJ1QS-u...
The Trump administration is trying to use pocket rescissions to take back nearly a billion dollars that Congress already appropriated.
This is yet another attack on the legislative branch's spending powers.
Congress has to do everything it can to reclaim that power.
This is yet another attack on the legislative branch's spending powers.
Congress has to do everything it can to reclaim that power.
October 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM
The Trump administration is trying to use pocket rescissions to take back nearly a billion dollars that Congress already appropriated.
This is yet another attack on the legislative branch's spending powers.
Congress has to do everything it can to reclaim that power.
This is yet another attack on the legislative branch's spending powers.
Congress has to do everything it can to reclaim that power.
HOW THE RESCISSIONS ATTACK THE CONSTITUTION
Trump slashing roughly $800 million in spending on refugee resettlement, grants to migrant students and funds for minority businesses was an attempt to get around Congress’s spending authority.
This subverts the basic structure of the American system.
Trump slashing roughly $800 million in spending on refugee resettlement, grants to migrant students and funds for minority businesses was an attempt to get around Congress’s spending authority.
This subverts the basic structure of the American system.
September 30, 2026 at 10:00 PM
HOW THE RESCISSIONS ATTACK THE CONSTITUTION
Trump slashing roughly $800 million in spending on refugee resettlement, grants to migrant students and funds for minority businesses was an attempt to get around Congress’s spending authority.
This subverts the basic structure of the American system.
Trump slashing roughly $800 million in spending on refugee resettlement, grants to migrant students and funds for minority businesses was an attempt to get around Congress’s spending authority.
This subverts the basic structure of the American system.
“We the People” decide how to spend our tax dollars through our representatives in Congress - not the President. The Constitution calls it the power of the purse. The Trump Administration's attempt to rescind money that Congress has appropriated is illegal and violates the Impoundment Control Act.
Congressional Watchdog Says Trump’s ‘Pocket Rescissions’ Violate the Law
The GAO has the power to sue the Trump administration over the Impoundment Control Act.
washingtonsun.com
September 30, 2026 at 9:11 PM
“We the People” decide how to spend our tax dollars through our representatives in Congress - not the President. The Constitution calls it the power of the purse. The Trump Administration's attempt to rescind money that Congress has appropriated is illegal and violates the Impoundment Control Act.
GAO reaffirmed that Trump’s use of pocket rescissions to bypass Congress is illegal & undermines a basic check on presidential power—while withholding funding for healthcare, housing, education, etc. at a time when many Americans are struggling with basic costs.
thehill.com/business/bud...
thehill.com/business/bud...
GAO reasserts pocket rescissions’ illegality after Trump uses tactic to cancel nearly $1B
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reasserted Tuesday that President Trump’s use of a “pocket rescission” to cancel $810 million in federal funding was unlawful. The letter by the gov…
thehill.com
September 30, 2026 at 7:54 PM
GAO reaffirmed that Trump’s use of pocket rescissions to bypass Congress is illegal & undermines a basic check on presidential power—while withholding funding for healthcare, housing, education, etc. at a time when many Americans are struggling with basic costs.
thehill.com/business/bud...
thehill.com/business/bud...
That orange psycho couldn't care less about national security, he's too busy creating more enemies for this hopeless country.
How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect #HigherEd 🙄
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and...
How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect #HigherEd 🙄
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and...
How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect Higher Ed
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security.
www.insidehighered.com
September 30, 2026 at 6:09 PM
That orange psycho couldn't care less about national security, he's too busy creating more enemies for this hopeless country.
How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect #HigherEd 🙄
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and...
How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect #HigherEd 🙄
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and...
Trump uses pocket rescissions to cancel education funding
The Trump administration has canceled nearly $100 million in education funding through a mechanism known as "pocket rescissions," which is widely seen as illegal.
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The Trump administration has canceled nearly $100 million in education funding through a mechanism known as "pocket rescissions," which is widely seen as illegal.
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Trump, Bucking Congress Yet Again, Cancels $100 Million for Education
A "pocket rescission" hits programs for migratory farmworkers and college-level language instruction.
buff.ly
September 30, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Trump uses pocket rescissions to cancel education funding
The Trump administration has canceled nearly $100 million in education funding through a mechanism known as "pocket rescissions," which is widely seen as illegal.
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The Trump administration has canceled nearly $100 million in education funding through a mechanism known as "pocket rescissions," which is widely seen as illegal.
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The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that President Trump’s rescissions are clearly illegal. The administration is breaking the law by taking away funds to help the American people that were passed by a bipartisan vote in Congress and signed into law.
Watchdog says Trump can't cancel more than $800M in spending approved by Congress
President Donald Trump is not permitted to withhold beyond the end of the fiscal year more than $800 million in spending approved by Congress.
apnews.com
September 30, 2026 at 3:39 PM
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that President Trump’s rescissions are clearly illegal. The administration is breaking the law by taking away funds to help the American people that were passed by a bipartisan vote in Congress and signed into law.
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is lowering flood standards.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Rescission of Floodplain Management and Protection of Wetlands; Minimum Property Standards for Flood Hazard Exposure; Building to the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard
This proposed rule would revise HUD's regulations governing floodplain management and the protection of wetlands in accordance with Executive Order 14148, entitled "Initial Rescissions of Harmful Exec...
www.federalregister.gov
September 30, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is lowering flood standards.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect Higher Ed
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security. https://bit.ly/3VXNBlI
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security. https://bit.ly/3VXNBlI
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
September 30, 2026 at 2:29 PM
How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect Higher Ed
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security. https://bit.ly/3VXNBlI
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security. https://bit.ly/3VXNBlI
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Congress already approved this money. The fiscal year ends today. The White House is trying to let $810 million expire without a vote.
Congress’s own watchdog says the law doesn’t allow that. The power of the purse belongs to Congress.
rollcall.com/2026/09/29/t...
Congress’s own watchdog says the law doesn’t allow that. The power of the purse belongs to Congress.
rollcall.com/2026/09/29/t...
Trump’s funding cancellation violates budget law, GAO says
The Government Accountability Office reaffirmed its opinion Tuesday that “pocket rescissions” are illegal, dealing a modest blow to President Donald Trump’s announcement last week of plans to cancel $...
rollcall.com
September 30, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Congress already approved this money. The fiscal year ends today. The White House is trying to let $810 million expire without a vote.
Congress’s own watchdog says the law doesn’t allow that. The power of the purse belongs to Congress.
rollcall.com/2026/09/29/t...
Congress’s own watchdog says the law doesn’t allow that. The power of the purse belongs to Congress.
rollcall.com/2026/09/29/t...
PP&ACA is more than a subsidy to help pay for private Ins. Remember the Patient Protection’s all Ins. must cover:
- 10 Essential Health Benefits
And
- Pre-existing condition coverage
-No dollar limits on coverage
-No arbitrary coverage rescissions
- Dependent coverage to age 26
& Rs hate it all
- 10 Essential Health Benefits
And
- Pre-existing condition coverage
-No dollar limits on coverage
-No arbitrary coverage rescissions
- Dependent coverage to age 26
& Rs hate it all
September 30, 2026 at 2:04 PM
PP&ACA is more than a subsidy to help pay for private Ins. Remember the Patient Protection’s all Ins. must cover:
- 10 Essential Health Benefits
And
- Pre-existing condition coverage
-No dollar limits on coverage
-No arbitrary coverage rescissions
- Dependent coverage to age 26
& Rs hate it all
- 10 Essential Health Benefits
And
- Pre-existing condition coverage
-No dollar limits on coverage
-No arbitrary coverage rescissions
- Dependent coverage to age 26
& Rs hate it all
Trump’s funding cancellation violates budget law, GAO says
The Government Accountability Office reaffirmed its opinion Tuesday that “pocket rescissions” are illegal, dealing a modest blow to President Donald Trump’s announcement last week of plans to cancel $...
rollcall.com
September 30, 2026 at 12:38 PM
How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect Higher Ed
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect Higher Ed
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security.
www.insidehighered.com
September 30, 2026 at 11:45 AM
How Trump’s Pocket Rescissions Could Affect Higher Ed
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
The administration is defunding one program that supported instruction for “critical languages,” and experts worry the move could undermine national security.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Trump cuts $810 million from programs helping American families and communities.
Senator Schumer criticizes Trump's rescissions package, calling it a 'slap in the face' to Americans struggling with the administration's costs.
(Forbes Breaking News)
Senator Schumer criticizes Trump's rescissions package, calling it a 'slap in the face' to Americans struggling with the administration's costs.
(Forbes Breaking News)
September 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Trump cuts $810 million from programs helping American families and communities.
Senator Schumer criticizes Trump's rescissions package, calling it a 'slap in the face' to Americans struggling with the administration's costs.
(Forbes Breaking News)
Senator Schumer criticizes Trump's rescissions package, calling it a 'slap in the face' to Americans struggling with the administration's costs.
(Forbes Breaking News)
Planned federal rescissions totaling $810 million threaten foreign language and international education grants, risking program closures and weakening crisis readiness.
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September 30, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Planned federal rescissions totaling $810 million threaten foreign language and international education grants, risking program closures and weakening crisis readiness.
Planned federal rescissions totaling $810 million threaten foreign language and international education grants, risking program closures and weakening crisis readiness.
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September 30, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Planned federal rescissions totaling $810 million threaten foreign language and international education grants, risking program closures and weakening crisis readiness.
The Government Accountability Office said Tuesday that the Trump regime’s plan to unilaterally rescind money that Congress appropriated for the 2026 fiscal year violates the Impoundment Control Act, a law passed in the aftermath of Watergate to codify Congress’ sole power of the purse.
Congressional Watchdog Says Trump’s ‘Pocket Rescissions’ Violate the Law
The GAO has the power to sue the Trump administration over the Impoundment Control Act.
www.washingtonsun.com
September 30, 2026 at 6:11 AM
The Government Accountability Office said Tuesday that the Trump regime’s plan to unilaterally rescind money that Congress appropriated for the 2026 fiscal year violates the Impoundment Control Act, a law passed in the aftermath of Watergate to codify Congress’ sole power of the purse.
