"We can simply choke off the money," Trump said in a 2023 campaign video. "For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending."
Trump's plan, known as 'impoundment,' threatens to provoke a major clash over the limits of the president's control over the budget.
The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to appropriate the federal budget, while the role of the executive branch is to dole out the money effectively.
His key advisers have spelled out plans to bring independent agencies, such as the Department of Justice, under political control.
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