Presidential Overreach and Supposedly Excessive Spending

by Neil H. Buchanan Will Donald Trump induce his pliant congressional Republican allies to turn him into even more of an autocrat?  Last week, I discussed reports that Trump is channeling his inner Nixon once again, this time trying to impound funds from the most recent spending bill.  Essentially, Trump wants to be able to cancel items in that bill, even though he signed it, because he did not like all aspects of the new law.I will summarize the mechanism for rescinding funds in a moment, but it is important to note up front that this is probably a dead issue, at least for now.  Politico reported two days after I published my column that "Republicans who helped craft the legislation are in open revolt" against the idea of allowing Trump to cancel some of its provisions.  Even so, we should remember that all bad ideas seem to come back from the dead in the Trump era.  To take but one example, his absurd border wall simply will not die.Whether…

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