The 50-Year-Old Law Trump Is Challenging To Create Chaos

[LiberalArkie]

Jan 28, 2025

In July 1974, then-President Richard Nixon, weakened by the Watergate scandal and only weeks away from becoming the first president to resign, signed the innocuously titled “Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act.”

He didn’t have much of a choice: The bipartisan bill passed the Senate 80 to 0 and 386 to 23 in the House.

More than 50 years later, though, that decision is still reverberating through Washington after President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget issued a memo late Monday night asking agencies to identify all forms of “federal financial assistance” through grants and loans and pause them while the administration reviews them.

That was exactly what the 1974 law, which also created the Congressional Budget Office, was supposed to prevent, critics of the Trump administration say.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/50-year-old-law-challenged-by-trump_n_67990f7ee4b0f8946ae2903f

[Lovie777]

1. Chaos within the Republican Party.

Karma.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Nixon and his gang thought they had a kingdom. They tried again with the same guys with Reagan, Bush 1 and 2

and now T-rump.

I think it all started with the FICA deduction that had to be paid by the employers. You can still hear them "How dare they take MY MONEY (really the companies money, but) and give it to the serfs?"