IMPOUNDMENT FACTS THAT CAN’T DOGE’D: Democrats and their Mainstream Media allies are in full cry against the prospect of Donald Trump reviving the presidential practice of “impoundment.” To hear them tell it, no prior chief executive, except possibly that previous evil one, Nixon, ever refused to spend money appropriated by Congress.
Don’t believe that nonsense for a second. As Issues & Insights (I&I) puts it, “while the Constitution forbids the president from spending more money than Congress has appropriated, there’s nothing in the Constitution that forbids the president from spending less. And lo and behold, the nation survived and thrived for nearly 200 years while the president had this authority.”