Saw #Mistral was trending on Twitter™ and got exciting thinking maybe something new dropped. It was just tons of people misspelling "mistrial" in relation to the latest #Trump junk. :trump_sadge:
Since then, #Trump & his advisers have prepared an attack on limits on presidential spending authority. On his campaign site, Trump said he will push #Congress to repeal parts of the 1974 #law restricting the president’s #authority to spend federal $ w/o congressional approval. Trump also said he will unilaterally challenge the law by cutting #funding for certain programs, promising on his 1st day to order every agency to ID “large chunks” of #budgets that would be halted by presidential #edict
That pledge could provoke a dramatic #constitutional showdown, w/vast consequences for how the govt operates. If #Trump returns to office, these efforts are likely to turn typically arcane debates over “#impoundment” #authority — or the president’s right to stop certain spending programs— into a major political flash point, as he seeks to accomplish via #edict what he cannot pass through #Congress.