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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 CNBC reporting on the White House move. The administration says President Trump is using Impoundment Control Act authorities to cut spending that does not benefit American citizens; Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, has called the maneuver a clear violation of the Impoundment Control Act, arguing the Government Accountability Office has concluded pocket rescissions are not permitted if Congress has not approved them.
- CNBCWhite House moves to block $810 million in funding through pocket rescission