Title. I went to sleep and when I woke up my friend has been dooming over it all day. Can’t find anything on the front page about it so I figured I’d just ask and risk .wins wrath lol. Thanks.
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Title. I went to sleep and when I woke up my friend has been dooming over it all day. Can’t find anything on the front page about it so I figured I’d just ask and risk .wins wrath lol. Thanks.
He impounded it. And then slapped with emergency requirements. Congress cannot distribute the pork but have to give the COVID relief.
And they won't, sadly.
What’s the law?
It was yesterday.
But he invoked something called the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 which may give him the ability to withhold funds for things that aren't necessary. Here's a quote from his statement:
I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed. I will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill.
I am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add money for PPP, return our airline workers back to work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution, and much more.
He signed it but sent it back with revisions that he used the budget act of 1974 to do. Specifically demanded “pork” removed.