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Update: Pocket-rescission clock still runs toward Wednesday fiscal-year end
The White House’s pocket rescission of about $810 million in congressionally appropriated funds — announced Friday and still pending as the federal fiscal year ends Wednesday, Sept. 30 — includes $567 million in HHS services for refugees, asylees and other non-citizens, according to the White House statement and CNBC. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, called the maneuver a clear violation of the Impoundment Control Act and said the Government Accountability Office has concluded pocket rescissions are unlawful. The package also targets education programs for migrant students, HHS research, and other accounts the White House labeled wasteful; Congress normally has 45 days to review a rescission request, a window the late-year timing largely closes.
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