A 2018 Government Accountability Office legal opinion holds that if the President proposes a rescission, he or she must make the affected funds available to be prudently obligated before the funds expire, even if the 45-day clock is still running. This means, for example, that the President cannot strategically time a rescission request for late in the fiscal year and withhold the funding until it expires, thus achieving a rescission without Congressional approval."
A 2018 Government Accountability Office legal opinion
This is an OPINION written by a LEGISLATIVE body that is in no way legally binding. It was also opined on in 2018, PRIOR to the currently declared state of emergency that our country is in.
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A 2018 Government Accountability Office legal opinion holds that if the President proposes a rescission, he or she must make the affected funds available to be prudently obligated before the funds expire, even if the 45-day clock is still running. This means, for example, that the President cannot strategically time a rescission request for late in the fiscal year and withhold the funding until it expires, thus achieving a rescission without Congressional approval."
This is an OPINION written by a LEGISLATIVE body that is in no way legally binding. It was also opined on in 2018, PRIOR to the currently declared state of emergency that our country is in.
The US Government fiscal year runs until 9/30, Rocket...