🚨Trump’s New Weapon to Slash Spending Without Congress
Trump may have found the ultimate budget kill switch: the pocket rescission.
It’s legal. It’s powerful. And it could gut billions in Deep State pork—without a single vote in Congress.
Let’s break it down 🧵👇
Trump may have found the ultimate budget kill switch: the pocket rescission.
It’s legal. It’s powerful. And it could gut billions in Deep State pork—without a single vote in Congress.
Let’s break it down 🧵👇
2/ 💣 What is a pocket rescission?
It’s a rarely used but fully legal tool that lets the President kill funding without Congress lifting a finger.
Submit a request within 45 days of the fiscal year’s end…
…and if Congress stalls, the money expires.
It’s a rarely used but fully legal tool that lets the President kill funding without Congress lifting a finger.
Submit a request within 45 days of the fiscal year’s end…
…and if Congress stalls, the money expires.
3/ Here’s how it works:
• Congress sets aside funding
• The President sends a rescission request under the Impoundment Control Act
• If it’s within 45 days of Sept 30, and Congress does nothing…
➡️ The funds vanish. Gone. Forever.
• Congress sets aside funding
• The President sends a rescission request under the Impoundment Control Act
• If it’s within 45 days of Sept 30, and Congress does nothing…
➡️ The funds vanish. Gone. Forever.
4/ OMB Director Russ Vought:
“It’s very possible we might use pocket rescissions. It’s one of our executive tools. It’s been used before. And it’s fully legal.”
This is how you defund the swamp without getting bogged down by RINOs or Senate Dems.
“It’s very possible we might use pocket rescissions. It’s one of our executive tools. It’s been used before. And it’s fully legal.”
This is how you defund the swamp without getting bogged down by RINOs or Senate Dems.
5/ 🔥 Why now?
Trump already passed a $9B rescission package July 24. But there’s way more to cut.
Congressional gridlock?
Blue-state hostage-taking?
Trump’s saying: fine—then I’ll go around you.
Trump already passed a $9B rescission package July 24. But there’s way more to cut.
Congressional gridlock?
Blue-state hostage-taking?
Trump’s saying: fine—then I’ll go around you.
6/ Pocket rescissions are a key, fully legal answer to out-of-control spending:
• No need to beg Congress
• No omnibus hostage-taking
• No more funding your enemies
Trump pulls the trigger. Congress stalls.
And the money dies.
• No need to beg Congress
• No omnibus hostage-taking
• No more funding your enemies
Trump pulls the trigger. Congress stalls.
And the money dies.
7/ Why do the Left & Uniparty hate this?
Because it strips them of their favorite weapon:
🤑 Slush funds
🧺 Earmarks
🕳️ Backroom deals
And it lets Trump swing the axe alone. He can't spend MORE, but he CAN spend LESS.
Because it strips them of their favorite weapon:
🤑 Slush funds
🧺 Earmarks
🕳️ Backroom deals
And it lets Trump swing the axe alone. He can't spend MORE, but he CAN spend LESS.
8/ Trump is done asking permission.
He’s using the Constitution, the law, and the tools of the presidency to drain the swamp—whether Congress cooperates or not.
That’s how a CEO runs a country. 💥🇺🇸
He’s using the Constitution, the law, and the tools of the presidency to drain the swamp—whether Congress cooperates or not.
That’s how a CEO runs a country. 💥🇺🇸
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