In 1996, Congress tried to give the President a line item veto and the Supreme Court struck it down. They struck it down as unconstitutional because it violated the constitutional's separation of powers. And yesterday, The independent nonpartisan Government Accountability Office reaffirmed that this strategy by Trump called a pocket rescission is illegal. And here's what they said, and I'll quote at some length. GAO has previously concluded that the Impoundment Control act does not permit the withholding of funds past their date of expiration. (01:37–01:51)
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Asserts that the GAO declared Trump's pocket rescission strategy illegal.
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