Trump's Impoundment Power Grab: Straight from Project 2025

FTA:

Impoundment refers to a president's decision to withhold funds that Congress has already allocated rather than executing the budget as mandated. The U.S. Constitution grants Congress exclusive power over federal spending, making impoundment a direct challenge to legislative authority. The key question before the courts is whether impoundment represents a legitimate executive function or an unconstitutional overreach that undermines the balance of power.

President Trump's impoundment strategy pushes into legally uncertain territory, where past presidents have hesitated to tread. Project 2025 promotes impoundment to weaken Congress and empower the executive branch. Proving once again that far from being a conservative document, Project 2025 is an extremist plan to disrupt constitutional checks and balances. . . .

The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, will likely decide the fate of Trump's impoundment push. While the Court has historically ruled against unilateral executive spending authority, recent decisions have favored broad presidential powers in areas like immigration and administrative rulemaking. . . .

If Trump successfully expands impoundment powers, the effects would be immediate. Recent court actions to halt Trump's NIH cuts could no longer occur going forward, giving the administration free rein. Federal agencies and public services could face sudden funding freezes, disrupting regulatory enforcement, social programs, and foreign aid. With Congress unable to override Trump's impoundments without a supermajority, its budgetary authority would be effectively neutralized.

We all knew Trump was lying when he said he didn't know anything about Project 2025 & here's the proof. This site shows the progress Trump & Musk have made meeting the goals of Project 2025 & also outlines where they plan to go. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say:

www.project2025.observer

Trump has recently said he wasn't going to get rid of Medicare, and I think that is partially true. Project 2025 does not call for eliminating Medicare, which Republicans know would be a bridge too far. It does, however, call for making Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option, which is not something most seniors are going to like. It also calls for reinstating "private-sector drug price negotiation program (repeal part of the Inflation Reduction Act's Medicare Part D reforms)" which no seniors are going to like. And we are especially not going to like it when these changes are being proposed so that they can extend, and even expand, takes cuts for millionaires, billionaires and corporations.

www.project2025.observer

PS Trump is also trying to make it impossible to undo the damage he is causing should he be replaced by a Democratic president in 2028:

Salting the earth': Trump ends presidential management fellowships and federal executive boards
The move to kill a key pipeline for aspiring civil servants and regional agency councils reflects a desire to make it impossible to rebuild the federal bureaucracy, experts said.

www.govexec.com