This is a Real Conservative Step in the White House

[EasyAce]

The President will dust off a Presidential power unused in two decades to reduce the size and scope of government
By Erick Erickson
https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/erick-erickson/this-is-a-real-conservative-step-in-the-white-house-sbCGiRAbYU6Rp8XH0orPiw/?full=1

Though it hasn't been done for roughly the last two decades, President Trump is going to deploy his rescission authority. This is a really solid conservative step by this White House for smaller government. Sadly, it is only a very small step -- about $15 billion, which the federal government spends in the blink of an eye. But that this is being done is notable and commendable.

As my fried Russ Vought, now the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, explains, "Among the fiscal tools at Mr. Trump’s disposal is Title X of the 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. That law gives the president authority to propose rescinding specific funding previously approved by Congress. Because such “rescissions” require Congress to pass new legislation, the law allows the president to freeze these funds for 45 days. Rescissions can be approved with simple majorities in both houses, meaning the Senate can’t block them with a filibuster" . . .

. . . The President resurrecting this authority is a good first, small step in the right direction towards reducing the size and scope of the federal government. We need more, much more, like this.

[skeeter]

Obviously Trump cannot literally make good on the grand promises he made during the campaign. He probably wouldn't have won had he not, well, exaggerated.
 
But then he wouldn't have been the first presidential candidate to do so.

If lasting change is going to come it will be accomplished in small, unspectacular increments in the right direction. It looks to me that is what he is doing.

[truth_seeker]

Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.Rescind away.

Then do it again